Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe144 books1897

Horror.

“Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dracula →

includes Dracula Sequence, The Return of Dracula, Theological College of St. Van Helsing, Dracula's Children, Dracula Adaptations

Bod OwensSeries

series3 books2007

Dark fantasy, about coming of age, set in british isles.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

FrankensteinUniverse

universe128 books1818

Horror.

“Light a candle against the November dark and consider what a single spark, rightly applied to dead matter, might wake.”
from the catalogue

Start with Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus →

includes Frankenstein's Children, The Frankenstein Journals, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, The Quest of Frankenstein, New Adventures of Frankenstein, Robert J. Myers' Frankenstein, Frankenstein (Lou Mougin), The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Gothic, dark in tone, about vampires and immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue

Start with Interview with the Vampire →

BuffyverseUniverse

universe205 books1992

Urban fantasy, tense in tone, about vampires, set in north america.

“Into every generation a Slayer is born: one girl in all the world with the strength to stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness.”
from the catalogue

Start with Buffy the Vampire Slayer →

includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Slayer (Kiersten White), Buffy: The Next Generation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Buffy Prequels

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