Books like Prince Lestat, The Vampire Chronicles
12 books with a reading profile close to Prince Lestat, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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The Bone Houses
Also clear-cut and 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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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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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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Vespertine
Also clear-cut and 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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Later
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jamie Conklin just wants a normal childhood, but he possesses the ability to see and speak with the spirits of the recently deceased.
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Fairy Tale
by Stephen King
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Charlie Reade is a high school athlete who life takes a sharp turn after he saves his elderly neighbor, Howard Bowditch, from a medical emergency.
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A Dowry of Blood
by S.T. Gibson
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In this epistolary reimagining of the Dracula mythos, Constanta is rescued from the brink of death by a charismatic, ancient stranger.
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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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