Books like 'The Living Dead'
Readers who enjoyed The Living Dead by John Joseph Adams, Joe Hill, George R.R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe R. Lansdale, Poppy Z. Brite, Harlan Ellison, Kelly Link, Stephen King, Douglas E. Winter, David Barr Kirtley, Dan Simmons, Dale Bailey, Sherman Alexie, David J. Schow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Michael Swanwick, Darrell Schweitzer, Jeffrey Ford, Susan Palwick, David Tallerman, Norman Partridge, Brian Evenson, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Catherine Cheek, Lisa Morton, Nancy Kilpatrick, Adam-Troy Castro, Andy Duncan, Will McIntosh, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Holder, Scott Edelman, John Langan & Kater Cheek also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers
16 ratingsThe games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. Leda Pierce has come a long way since she left her home on the frontier of civilization one year ago to join the Legion of Angels. She is a soldier in the gods’ army, has crossed swords with demons, and shares an apartment with her angel lover in New York...Categorized as:
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![Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair]()
Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair
14 ratingsI crave my nightmares.I crave the shadows.I don’t want the light if it doesn’t include them…The human terror organization MAM has come to our doorstep—we just don’t know what they want... -
![Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab]()
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
32 ratingsKate Harker isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.August Flynn once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.The war has begun.The monsters are winning.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in... -
![Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab]()
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
31 ratingsTHE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in... -
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![Demon Escape by M.J. Haag]()
Demon Escape by M.J. Haag
10 ratingsEden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines...Categorized as:
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![Soul Eater by Lily Mayne]()
Soul Eater by Lily Mayne
20 ratingsM/M Fantasy Romance. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. Including Wyn the Soul Eater...Categorized as:
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![The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross]()
The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross
20 ratingsLONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires...Categorized as:
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![When Monsters Bleed by Debbie Cassidy]()
When Monsters Bleed by Debbie Cassidy
9 ratingsEverything I thought I knew about my world has been shattered.The only constant are the four Monsters keeping me and my people safe.Nothing else is certain.No path is clear. So what do we do?We forge our own.Action, sizzle and multiple love interests for our lucky heroine in this paranormal fantasy romance... -
![Demon Ash by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza]()
Demon Ash by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza
12 ratingsThe world is nothing like Mya remembers. While in Ernisi, cities have been bombed and burned in an attempt to stop the hellhounds and the plague. The survivors are doing everything they can to win back their world from the hell that was unleashed with the first quake. With Drav's help, Mya reunites with her family, but they are far from safe...Categorized as:
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![This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab]()
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
40 ratingsThere’s no such thing as safe.Kate Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she’s finally going home to prove that she can be.August Flynn wants to be human. But he isn’t. He’s a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He’s one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father’s secret weapon... -
![Demon Ember by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza]()
Demon Ember by M.J. Haag, Becca Vincenza
14 ratingsMya’s world is falling apart. After a series of earthquakes, deadly animals with glowing red eyes begin attacking people and start the spread of a zombie-like plague. Safety is just a memory as she tries to make her way home. When a different creature attacks the people helping her reach Oklahoma City, Mya is sure she’ll never see the light of another day...Categorized as:
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![The Twelve by Justin Cronin]()
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
41 ratingsIn his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos... -
![Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse]()
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
28 ratingsWhile most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope...Categorized as:
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![Hunter by Mercedes Lackey]()
Hunter by Mercedes Lackey
18 ratingsThey came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.Monsters.Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it’s taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe...Categorized as:
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![To Beat the Devil by M.K. Gibson, C.T. Phipps]()
To Beat the Devil by M.K. Gibson, C.T. Phipps
6 ratingsAn alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.175 years have passed since God quit on mankind. Without his blessing, Hell itself, along with the ancient power of The Deep, were unleashed upon the world. Two world wars and oceans of blood later, a balance was reached. Demonkind took its place as the ruling aristocracy... -
![Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London]()
Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London
24 ratingsAt seventeen, Dawn Montgomery knows that monsters really do come out at night—after all, they are her job... -
![The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross]()
The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
18 ratingsIn this this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo Award winning writer Charles Stross, the Laundry - the British secret agency that fights supernatural threats - must team up with the police force, with one unfortunate secret agent caught in the middle.PLAYING WITH DANGERDr. Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'...Categorized as:
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![The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent]()
The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent
14 ratingsOne spark will rise.Nina Kane was born to be an exorcist. And since uncovering the horrifying truth—that the war against demons is far from over—seventeen-year-old Nina and her pregnant younger sister, Mellie, have been on the run, incinerating the remains of the demon horde as they go...Categorized as:
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![Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton]()
Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton
24 ratingsAri can't help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver hair that can't be changed or destroyed, Ari has always stood out. And after growing up in foster care, she longs for some understanding of where she came from and who she is. Her search for answers uncovers just one message from her long dead mother: Run...Categorized as:
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![Havoc of Souls by S.J. Sanders]()
Havoc of Souls by S.J. Sanders
11 ratingsThe world went silent when the mist came. Following a sonic blast heard around the world as the gates of Aites were thrown open, the mist clung to the mortal world, but it was not empty. Creatures dwelled within the mist, and when the mist left, they remained. Yet, with the ravagers another came forth...Categorized as:
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![Zombie Island by Lori Handeland]()
Zombie Island by Lori Handeland
6 ratingsIn the follow-up to Shakespeare Undead, vampire William Shakespeare and his Dark Ladyare stranded on a mystical island where zombies are plentiful and one man will stop at nothing to become all-powerfulFresh from a triumphant battle over the zombie horde that invaded London, vampire William Shakespeare concocts a plot to rid the love of his life from the encumbrance of her husband... -
![Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen]()
Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
18 ratingsA heartwarming tale of terror in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.Meet Sarah and David.Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now they're on the verge of divorce and going to couples' counseling. On a routine trip to their counselor, they notice a few odd things -- the lack of cars on the highway, the missing security guard, and the fact that their counselor, Dr...Categorized as:
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![Nightfall by Ellen Connor]()
Nightfall by Ellen Connor
14 ratingsFirst in a stunning new post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Growing up with an unstable, often absent father who preached about the end of the world, Jenna never thought in her wildest nightmares that his predictions would come true...Categorized as:
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![Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder by Derek Gunn]()
Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder by Derek Gunn
8 ratingsThis is the first book in Derek Gunn's Vampire Apocalypse series.The war is over and the Vampires have won. The drying up of the world's oil resources leads to the fabled End of Days. Technology stagnates and communities grow ever more insular...Categorized as:
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![The Infects by Sean Beaudoin, Nick Podehl]()
The Infects by Sean Beaudoin, Nick Podehl
12 ratingsLength: 9 hours / 8 CDsA feast for the brain, this gory and genuinely hilarious take on zombie culture simultaneously skewers, pays tribute to, and elevates the horror genre.Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an “Inward Trek... -
![Bloodlands by Christine Cody]()
Bloodlands by Christine Cody
6 ratingsThe New Badlands—a desolate area in the West forged by the terrible events that altered the entire country, where a few frightened citizens retreated underground to shelter from the brutal weather... and from a society gone deadly dangerous.Then the vampire arrived—and they started calling it the Bloodlands...Categorized as:
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![Deadtown by Nancy Holzner]()
Deadtown by Nancy Holzner
18 ratingsIf you were undead, you'd be home by now...They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human...Categorized as:
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![Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar]()
Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar
18 ratingsThe sensational Amazon.com Kindle Bestseller- now in paperback. #1 Science Fiction and #1 Horror on the Kindle store. Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived- hordes of undead Biters... -
![The Gunslinger Born by Peter David, Stephen King]()
The Gunslinger Born by Peter David, Stephen King
36 ratings'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland ' an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic...Categorized as:
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![Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga]()
Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga
24 ratingsBased on "The Walking Dead" graphic novels/comic books and the series starring Andrew Lincoln ("Teachers", "This Life and Love", and "Love Actually") and written/produced by Frank Darabont whose previous credits include "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile", this is a new trilogy of books written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, author of "Perfect Victim" and "Shattered"...
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