Books like The Child Thief
12 books with a reading profile close to The Child Thief by Brom. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Servant of the Bones
by Anne Rice
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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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
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
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
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
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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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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Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega
by Joe Hill
horror, entertainment
In this final volume, the Locke children face the physical and spiritual manifestation of Dodge, an ancient entity seeking to open the Black Door.
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Later
by Stephen King
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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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore
horror, entertainment
When writer Alan Moore took over the title in 1983, he restructured the protagonist’s origin through a biological revelation.
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The Stand
by Stephen King
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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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
by Holly Black
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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