Books like Servant of the Bones
12 books with a reading profile close to Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice. Escapist; a moderate read.
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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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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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The Stand
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
A weaponized strain of influenza nicknamed Captain Trips escapes a military research facility, killing over ninety-nine percent of the global population within weeks.
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Wizard and Glass
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
After escaping the sentient train Blaine the Mono, Roland Deschain and his tet-mates halt their trek toward the Dark Tower to camp near a thin spot between realities.
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Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill
horror, entertainment
Following the brutal murder of their father, the three Locke children—Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode—move with their mother to Keyhouse, an ancestral family estate in Lovecraft, Massachusetts.
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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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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 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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