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Books like American Vampire (Big Break / Bad Blood)
A sun-drenched, blood-soaked reimagining of vampire lore that bites into the rotten core of the American Dream. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with American Vampire (Big Break / Bad Blood).
- sun-baked
- blood-soaked
- menacing
- glamorous-yet-rotting
- 01
Swamp thing volume 1
Scott Snyder
A visceral plunge into eco-horror where the creeping rot of the natural world mirrors the terrifying burden of an inescapable destiny.
- 02
Wytches, vol. 1
Scott Snyder
A visceral, ink-splattered descent into primal woods where ancient, hungry things wait for a desperate bargain.
- 03
The fall
Guillermo del Toro
A relentless, cinematic plunge into a world being rapidly consumed by a monstrous plague.
- 04
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith
A straight-faced, blood-soaked reimagining of American history where the greatest political battles are fought with an axe in the dark.
- 05
Locke & Key, Vol. 1
Joe Hill · 2008
A dark, grief-stricken descent into a haunted family legacy where childhood wonder collides with visceral, unrelenting horror.
- 06
The strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan · 2009
A cinematic collision of CDC procedural and ancient, blood-drenched gothic horror.
- 07
Fables
Bill Willingham
A gritty, hardboiled detective story where childhood legends hide their darkest secrets in the shadows of modern-day New York.
- 08
Fake blood
Whitney Gardner
A hilarious, big-hearted romp through the supernatural awkwardness of middle school crushes and trying way too hard to be cool.
- 09
Preacher, Book One
G. Ennis
A blood-soaked, blasphemous road trip through the grimy underbelly of America in search of an absentee God.
- 10
Ascender Volume 1
Jeff Lemire
A brisk, genre-bending adventure where the remnants of a sci-fi past collide with a dark, magical present.
- 11
The Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman
A gritty, unapologetic plunge into the grimy, nocturnal underworld of 1970s New York, where even the monsters have something to fear.
- 12
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
James Tynion IV
A blood-spattered, dread-soaked descent into small-town horror where the only thing scarier than the monsters is the woman who hunts them.
