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- On Stranger Tides
Tim Powersstandalone novel1987
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On Stranger Tides is a 1987 historical fantasy supernatural novel by American writer Tim Powers. It was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and placed second in the annual Locus poll for best fantasy novel.
- Lovecraft Country
series2 books2016
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Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Turner, a Black Korean War veteran and science-fiction fan, and his extended family as they navigate both cosmic horror and the everyday terror of Jim Crow-era America in the 1950s. Structured as eight interlinked stories rather than one continuous plot, it moves between sorcerous lodges, haunted houses, and cursed heirlooms, all set in motion by the manipulative occultist Caleb Braithwhite. A 2023 sequel novel, The Destroyer of Worlds, returns to the same characters.
- The Hunger
Alma Katsustandalone novel2018
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Fictionalized supernatural/horror treatment of the Donner Party.
- James Asher Chronicles
series8 books1988
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The James Asher Chronicles opens with Those Who Hunt the Night, in which the vampire Don Simon Ysidro coerces a former British spy, Oxford professor James Asher, into finding out who is killing London's vampires in their sleep - forcing Asher and his physician wife Lydia into an uneasy alliance with the undead. Barbara Hambly's series follows the trio across eight books and three decades of settings as new supernatural and human threats draw Asher back into Ysidro's world.
- The Arabian Nightmare
Robert Irwinstandalone novel1983
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The Arabian Nightmare is a novel by Robert Irwin published in 1983. The Arabian Nightmare was inspired by The Arabian Nights, as well as the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki.
- My Brother's Keeper
Tim Powersstandalone novel2023
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This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in Wuthering Heights. And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world. When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England. But Emily’s father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years ago—and it is taking possession of Emily’s beloved but foolish and dissolute brother. Curzon must regard Emily’s family as a dire threat. In spite of being at deadly odds, Emily and Curzon find themselves thrown together in fighting werewolves, confronting pagan gods, even saving each other from the lures of moorland demons. And in a final battle that sweeps from the haunted village of Haworth to a monstrous shrine far out on the moors, the two of them must be reluctant allies against an ancient power that seems likely to take their souls as well as their lives.
- The Stress of Her Regard Universe
series3 books1989
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Tim Powers's The Stress of Her Regard reimagines the lives of Byron, Shelley, and Keats through a secret history in which they are stalked and inspired by a nephilim, a shape-shifting vampiric being that acts as a deadly muse. Physician Michael Crawford is drawn into their orbit after inadvertently marrying himself to one of the creatures, setting off a pursuit across the Alps to break her hold on him. The 2012 sequel, Hide Me Among the Graves, moves the same secret history forward into Victorian London.
- Barnaby Grimes
series4 books2007
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The Barnaby Grimes series is written by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, and follows the title character of Grimes the "tick-tock lad" and his various adventures - mostly with a supernatural spin to them.
- The Hidden People
Alison Littlewoodstandalone novel2016
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The Hidden People is a historical fantasy and horror novel by English writer Alison Littlewood, first published in October 2016 in the United Kingdom by Jo Fletcher Books. It is based on the 1895 incident in County Tipperary, Ireland, where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling.
- Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañasstandalone novel2023
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Vampires of El Norte is a 2023 novel by Isabel Cañas. The novel centers on the romance between Nena, daughter of a ranchero, and the vaquero Néstor. The novel takes place during the Mexican–American War, with the addition of vampires.
