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Books like Inferno

A Machiavellian chess match played with cosmic stakes, where the sharpest weapon is a silver tongue. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Inferno.

  • brooding
  • mythic
  • tense
  • shadow-drenched
  1. 01

    Lucifer, Vol. 2

    Mike Carey

    A darkly elegant descent into occult mythology where pride and free will collide with cosmic consequences.

    Shares:
    • mythic
    • cynical
    • philosophical
    • wry
  2. 02

    Devil in the Gateway

    Mike Carey

    A darkly glamorous, philosophical noir where the ultimate antihero outwits the divine bureaucracy.

    Shares:
    • brooding
    • cynical
    • philosophical
    • wry
  3. 03

    Hellboy in Hell omnibus

    Mike Mignola

    A strange, magical wandering through an otherworldly afterlife steeped in folklore and heavy with destiny.

    Shares:
    • mythic
  4. 04

    Worlds' End

    Neil Gaiman

    A cozy but deeply unsettling collection of nested tales shared by stranded travelers while the universe fractures outside.

    Shares:
    • mythic
    • wry
  5. 05

    The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3

    Neil Gaiman

    A surreal, melancholic road trip through myth and memory that explores the heavy cost of duty and the inevitability of change.

    Shares:
    • mythic
    • philosophical
  6. 06

    The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5

    Kieron Gillen

    A neon-soaked, hedonistic spiral into the dark side of absolute freedom and pop-star godhood.

    Shares:
    • cynical
  7. 07

    Aloha from Hell

    Richard Kadrey

    A whiskey-soaked, blood-spattered joyride through the grimiest corners of Los Angeles and the literal pits of Hell.

    Shares:
    • cynical
  8. 08

    Sandman Slim

    Richard Kadrey

    A whiskey-soaked, blood-spattered joyride through a grimy supernatural Los Angeles with a protagonist who literally crawled out of Hell.

    Shares:
    • cynical
  9. 09

    I, Lucifer

    Glen Duncan · 2002

    A wickedly funny, hyper-articulate romp through the gritty underbelly of London, narrated by the ultimate unreliable and arrogant anti-hero.

    Shares:
    • cynical
  10. 10

    John Constantine, Hellblazer

    Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

    A gritty, hallucinatory road trip through grief, where a broken mystic confronts the ghosts of his past and the demons within his own mind.

    Feels:
    • melancholic
    • nightmarish
    • hallucinatory
  11. 11

    Hellboy omnibus

    Mike Mignola

    A shadow-drenched, folklore-steeped pulp adventure where a blue-collar demon punches cosmic horrors while wrestling with his own apocalyptic destiny.

    Shares:
    • mythic
    • shadow-drenched
    • wry
  12. 12

    Fables, Vol. 10

    Bill Willingham

    A heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant fairy tale about a broken man finding the courage to build a kingdom out of kindness and ghosts.

    Shares:
    • mythic

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