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  • Cover of Songs of the Seraphim
    Songs of the SeraphimSeries

    series · 2 books · 2009

    completed

    Fantasy, about angels and assassins.

    “Angel Time introduces Toby O'Dare, a contract killer given a chance at redemption when an angel recruits him to intervene in a medieval crisis, sending him back through history rather than forward.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Angel Time →

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  • Cover of American Gods
    American GodsSeries

    series · 10 books · 1999

    Fantasy and mythic fantasy, about gods.

    “Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

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  • Cover of After Such Knowledge
    After Such KnowledgeSeries

    series · 7 books · 1953

    completed

    “After Such Knowledge is James Blish's loosely linked trilogy on the costs of forbidden or dangerous knowledge.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Doctor Mirabilis →

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  • Cover of Dracula
    DraculaUniverse

    universe · 144 books · 1897

    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, Dracula's Children, Theological College of St. Van Helsing, Dracula Adaptations

  • Cover of Inferno
    InfernoSeries

    series · 2 books · 1976

    Fantasy, set in afterlife & underworld.

    “In Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle send a science fiction writer to his death and drop him into a modern-dress version of Dante's nine circles of Hell, where he must reason his way toward understanding why he has been damned.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Inferno →

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  • Cover of The Vampire Chronicles
    The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

    series · 15 books · 1976

    completed

    Horror and gothic, 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 →

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