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series5 books1991

Dark fantasy and horror, dark in tone, about demons, set in contemporary.

“Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart introduces the puzzle box that summons the Cenobites and the domestic horror story around it, later adapted into the Hellraiser film series.”
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DemonataSeries

series10 books2005

Dark fantasy and horror, dark and tense in tone, about demons, set in contemporary.

“Lord Loss is an extreme horror fiction which transcribes the encounters of a boy, Grubbs Grady, after the shock of his family's brutal murder at the hands of demons, and his later experiences with uncle Dervish.”
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The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Start with City of Bones →

includes The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Magnus Bane, The Dark Artifices, The Eldest Curses, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

The Black TattooNovel

Sam Enthovenstandalone novel2006

About coming of age and identity.

Rosemary ReillySeries

series2 books1967

completed

About parenthood, set in north america and big city.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
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Shadow Saga II (Christopher Golden)Series

series7 books1994

Set in contemporary and our world.

“Christopher Golden's Shadow Saga follows Peter Octavian, a centuries-old vampire working as a private investigator in a Boston where humans live alongside a hidden population of supernatural creatures, beginning with Of Saints and Shadows.”
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Start with Of Saints and Shadows →

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