Books like Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
12 books with a reading profile close to Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Vespertine
Also practical and clear-cut · 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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The Bone Houses
Also practical and clear-cut · 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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A Sorceress Comes to Call
Also practical and 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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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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Vampires of El Norte
by Isabel Cañas
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War in the 1840s, the story follows Nena, a curandera and daughter of a ranchero, and Néstor, a vaquero driven by guilt after a childhood tragedy.
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Twilight Eyes
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
Slim MacKenzie possesses a psychic ability he calls twilight eyes, which allows him to see Goblins—malevolent, non-human shapeshifters that mimic people to orchestrate human suffering and violence.
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Sleeping Beauties
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
In a near-future setting, a biological phenomenon known as Aurora affects every woman on Earth.
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Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
In the quiet town of Archer’s Peak, children are vanishing into the woods, leaving behind only gruesome remains and one traumatized survivor named James.
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American Vampire, Vol. 1
by Scott Snyder
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Skinner Sweet is a sociopathic outlaw in the 1880s who becomes the first of a new species: the American vampire.
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Robert Jordan's The wheel of time
by Chuck Dixon
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, fantasy
This graphic novel adapts the opening events of The Eye of the World, the first entry in Robert Jordan’s high fantasy cycle.
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The Hollow Places
Also practical and 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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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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