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A gruesome, high-stakes collision of Cold War psychic espionage and ancient, parasitic vampirism. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Necroscope.
- dread-soaked
- visceral
- claustrophobic
- eerie
- 01
The Brothers Cabal
Jonathan L. Howard
A delightfully macabre romp where an affable vampire and his amoral necromancer brother team up to thwart an occult conspiracy.
- 02
Blindsight
Peter Watts
A chilling, fiercely intelligent plunge into the dark void of space that will make you question the evolutionary value of your own consciousness.
- 03
The death of the necromancer
Martha Wells · 1998
A shadowy, gaslamp-lit romp where a gentleman thief's quest for vengeance collides with ancient, creeping horrors.
- 04
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.
- 05
Children of the night
Dan Simmons · 1999
A chilling collision of modern medical science and ancient, blood-soaked folklore set against the bleak backdrop of post-Cold War Eastern Europe.
- 06
The Jennifer Morgue
Charles Stross · 2006
A deadpan collision of James Bond espionage, IT department bureaucracy, and tentacled cosmic dread.
- 07
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch
A wry, rain-slicked collision of bureaucratic police work and ancient, chaotic magic.
- 08
Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg · 1980
A deeply intimate, melancholic portrait of a man slowly losing the one extraordinary thing about himself and facing the terrifying quiet of an ordinary mind.
- 09
Prince Lestat, The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
A lush, sprawling reunion of immortal souls wrestling with existential dread and the intoxicating weight of eternity.
- 10
Darkness Comes
Dean Ray Koontz · 1990
A relentless, claustrophobic descent into primal terror where the shadows themselves seem to have teeth.
- 11
Jack of Shadows
Roger Zelazny · 1971
A mythic, hardboiled descent into a surreal world split between science and magic, led by an antihero consumed by vengeance.
- 12
When Gravity Fails
George Effinger
A neon-drenched, hardboiled descent into a futuristic Middle Eastern underworld where identity is just another commodity to be bought, sold, or stolen.
