Books like Krampus: The Yule Lord
12 books with a reading profile close to Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Cordelia lives a quiet, isolated life under the thumb of her mother, Evangeline, a woman who manipulates the world through subtle, sinister sorcery.
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The Bone Houses
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Aderyn, a gravedigger in the village of Colbren, spends her days burying the dead and her nights putting them back in the ground when they rise as restless, rotting "bone houses." After her father disappears into the fo…
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Vespertine
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Artemisia is a young nun who serves a religious order that protects the living from the restless dead in a world where ghosts rise and linger.
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Five estranged friends gather at a derelict Heian-era mansion in Japan to celebrate a destination wedding.
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Servant of the Bones
by Anne Rice
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Azriel is a Hebrew servant who is made a djinn, a spirit bound to serve a master, and he narrates his long history from ancient Babylon to the present.
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Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
by Joe Hill
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In this third volume, Sam Lesser’s death leaves the Locke family struggling to manage the escalating supernatural threats within Keyhouse.
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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
by Mike Mignola
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1944, a group of Nazi occultists led by Grigori Rasputin attempts a ritual to summon the Ogdru Jahad, the Seven Gods of Chaos, to turn the tide of World War II.
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Sleeping Beauties
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In a near-future setting, a biological phenomenon known as Aurora affects every woman on Earth.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
by Holly Black
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Tana lives in a world where a Cold Infection turns humans into vampires, forcing the government to quarantine the infected in walled cities known as Coldtowns.
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The Hollow Places
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Kara, recently divorced and living in her uncle’s museum of curiosities, discovers a hole in a drywall that leads into a concrete bunker and a landscape of endless islands amidst a dark river.
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