28 Books like Empire of the Damned

The Devils

by Joe Abercrombie

A fake princess, five monsters, and an empire that devours anyone who reaches for its throne.

4.20

78k+

🗡️ Grimdark Fantasy 👹 Monster Squad 🎭 Fake Identity ⛪ Corrupt Church 😈 Dark Humor

The Devils 93%

A fake princess, five monsters, and an empire that devours anyone who reaches for its throne.

by Joe Abercrombie 2025

4.20

78k+ ratings

🗡️ Grimdark Fantasy 👹 Monster Squad 🎭 Fake Identity ⛪ Corrupt Church 😈 Dark Humor

The Crimson Road

by A.G. Slatter • 2025

To claim her inheritance, Violet must journey into the Darklands and kill something that cannot die.

3.87

1k+

🔮 Prophecy 🖤 Gothic Fantasy 🗡️ Reluctant Heroine 👪 Cursed Bloodline 🤝 Found Family

The Crimson Road 94%

To claim her inheritance, Violet must journey into the Darklands and kill something that cannot die.

by A.G. Slatter 2025

3.87

1k+ ratings

🔮 Prophecy 🖤 Gothic Fantasy 🗡️ Reluctant Heroine 👪 Cursed Bloodline 🤝 Found Family

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice • 1976

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

4.02

656k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Interview with the Vampire 94%

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

by Anne Rice 1976

4.02

656k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

The Gravewood

by Kelly Andrew • 2026

A deaf girl trades her blood to a vampire lord for supplies. The bargain grows teeth.

3.73

3k+

🩸 Vampire Dystopia 🕯️ Gothic Fantasy 💉 Blood Bond 🦻 Deaf Protagonist 🥀 World In Decay

The Gravewood 93%

A deaf girl trades her blood to a vampire lord for supplies. The bargain grows teeth.

by Kelly Andrew 2026

3.73

3k+ ratings

🩸 Vampire Dystopia 🕯️ Gothic Fantasy 💉 Blood Bond 🦻 Deaf Protagonist 🥀 World In Decay

The Book Eaters

by Sunyi Dean • 2022

A book eater's son hungers for minds. She feeds him strangers while their family's knights close in.

3.61

57k+

🩸 Vampire Reimagining 🖤 Found Family 🐺 Protective Mother 🕯️ Gothic Dread 🦷 Body Horror

The Book Eaters 93%

A book eater's son hungers for minds. She feeds him strangers while their family's knights close in.

by Sunyi Dean 2022

3.61

57k+ ratings

🩸 Vampire Reimagining 🖤 Found Family 🐺 Protective Mother 🕯️ Gothic Dread 🦷 Body Horror

Loved

by P.C. Cast • 2017

A ritual backfires, unleashing red zombies and a mirror world's horror onto Zoey's Tulsa.

4.23

7k+

🧛 Vampyre Society 🫂 Found Family 🌍 Alternate Worlds ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing 👻 Supernatural Horror

Loved 93%

A ritual backfires, unleashing red zombies and a mirror world's horror onto Zoey's Tulsa.

by P.C. Cast 2017

4.23

7k+ ratings

🧛 Vampyre Society 🫂 Found Family 🌍 Alternate Worlds ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing 👻 Supernatural Horror

Powers of Darkness

by Valdimar Ásmundsson • 1901

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

3.63

2k+

🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

Powers of Darkness 93%

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

by Valdimar Ásmundsson 1901

3.63

2k+ ratings

🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah Harkness • 2011

A reluctant witch opens a hidden manuscript and meets an ancient vampire. Their bond is forbidden.

4.02

562k+

📖 Academic Fantasy 🔮 Reluctant Witch 💫 Fated Mates 🧛 Vampire Protector ⚖️ Supernatural Politics

A Discovery of Witches 93%

A reluctant witch opens a hidden manuscript and meets an ancient vampire. Their bond is forbidden.

by Deborah Harkness 2011

4.02

562k+ ratings

📖 Academic Fantasy 🔮 Reluctant Witch 💫 Fated Mates 🧛 Vampire Protector ⚖️ Supernatural Politics

Dracul

by Dacre Stoker • 2018

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

4.14

19k+

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire 🤝 Immortal Pact 🧬 Cursed Bloodline

Dracul 93%

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

by Dacre Stoker 2018

4.14

19k+ ratings

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire 🤝 Immortal Pact 🧬 Cursed Bloodline

Dire Straits

by Helen Harper • 2014

Framed for a daemon's murder, a PI discovers escaping the vampires means becoming one.

3.84

4k+

🕵️ Noir Urban Fantasy 🩸 Vampire Politics 🏃 Framed For Murder 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 😈 Bloodlust Struggle

Dire Straits 94%

Framed for a daemon's murder, a PI discovers escaping the vampires means becoming one.

by Helen Harper 2014

3.84

4k+ ratings

🕵️ Noir Urban Fantasy 🩸 Vampire Politics 🏃 Framed For Murder 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 😈 Bloodlust Struggle

The Strain

by Guillermo del Toro • 2009

A dead plane at JFK, a CDC doctor, and a vampire plague that surfaces at sundown.

3.80

91k+

🩸 Vampire Plague 🔬 Epidemiological Horror 👹 Ancient Evil ⚔️ Vampire Hunters 🦠 Body Horror

The Strain 94%

A dead plane at JFK, a CDC doctor, and a vampire plague that surfaces at sundown.

by Guillermo del Toro 2009

3.80

91k+ ratings

🩸 Vampire Plague 🔬 Epidemiological Horror 👹 Ancient Evil ⚔️ Vampire Hunters 🦠 Body Horror

The Lesser Dead

by Christopher Buehlman

Feral child vampires hunt the 1978 subway. The colony that shelters them never stood a chance.

4.07

10k+

🧛 Ancient Child Vampires 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🗽 1970s New York 🕳️ Underground Vampire Colony 👹 Feral Vampires

The Lesser Dead 93%

Feral child vampires hunt the 1978 subway. The colony that shelters them never stood a chance.

by Christopher Buehlman 2014

4.07

10k+ ratings

🧛 Ancient Child Vampires 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🗽 1970s New York 🕳️ Underground Vampire Colony 👹 Feral Vampires

Guilty Pleasures

by Laurell K. Hamilton • 1993

A necromancer hunts vampires until their master forces her to hunt their killer instead.

4.02

154k+

🕵️ Supernatural Investigator 💀 Necromancer Heroine 🩸 Vampire Politics 📜 Legalized Monsters 🤝 Uneasy Alliances

Guilty Pleasures 93%

A necromancer hunts vampires until their master forces her to hunt their killer instead.

by Laurell K. Hamilton 1993

4.02

154k+ ratings

🕵️ Supernatural Investigator 💀 Necromancer Heroine 🩸 Vampire Politics 📜 Legalized Monsters 🤝 Uneasy Alliances

Written in Red

by Anne Bishop • 2013

A runaway prophet's visions draw a wolf's protection, but her human hunters are closing in.

4.25

65k+

🩸 Blood Magic 🐺 Protective Wolf Shifter 🖤 Monster Found Family ❄️ Winter Survival 🗞️ Dangerous Prophecy

Written in Red 93%

A runaway prophet's visions draw a wolf's protection, but her human hunters are closing in.

by Anne Bishop 2013

4.25

65k+ ratings

🩸 Blood Magic 🐺 Protective Wolf Shifter 🖤 Monster Found Family ❄️ Winter Survival 🗞️ Dangerous Prophecy

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by V.E. Schwab • 2025

Three women, five centuries, one vampire's promise: you are mine forever, and forever is a cage.

3.88

218k+

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🦇 Vampire Gothic 💔 Toxic Immortal Love 🏚️ Vampire Found Family 🌑 Lyrical Gothic

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Summary

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 92%

Three women, five centuries, one vampire's promise: you are mine forever, and forever is a cage.

by V.E. Schwab 2025

3.88

218k+ ratings

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🦇 Vampire Gothic 💔 Toxic Immortal Love 🏚️ Vampire Found Family 🌑 Lyrical Gothic

The God of Endings

by Jacqueline Holland • 2023

An immortal teacher cages her hunger behind a preschool until a dying boy needs her darkest self.

3.81

13k+

🧛 Literary Vampire 🩸 Reluctant Monster 👧 Immortal Guardian ⏳ Weight Of Immortality 🖤 Lyrical Gothic

The God of Endings 92%

An immortal teacher cages her hunger behind a preschool until a dying boy needs her darkest self.

by Jacqueline Holland 2023

3.81

13k+ ratings

🧛 Literary Vampire 🩸 Reluctant Monster 👧 Immortal Guardian ⏳ Weight Of Immortality 🖤 Lyrical Gothic

Ordinary Monsters

by J.M. Miro • 2022

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

3.77

23k+

🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🌑 Dark Destiny

Ordinary Monsters 92%

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

by J.M. Miro 2022

3.77

23k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🌑 Dark Destiny

Blood Lovers

by J.A. Huss • 2023

A vampire scion hunts a witch, but her blood makes him her captive.

4.02

537

🩸 Dark Vampire Romance 🏹 Hunter And Prey 💉 Blood Addiction 🔮 Fated Mates 🖤 Morally Gray Hero

Blood Lovers 92%

A vampire scion hunts a witch, but her blood makes him her captive.

by J.A. Huss 2023

4.02

537 ratings

🩸 Dark Vampire Romance 🏹 Hunter And Prey 💉 Blood Addiction 🔮 Fated Mates 🖤 Morally Gray Hero

Fledgling

by Octavia E. Butler

Waking in a cave with no memory, a daylight vampire discovers her skin is a death sentence.

3.79

40k+

🧬 Biological Vampires ☀️ Daylight Vampire 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 🖤 Found Family 💉 Coercive Symbiosis

Fledgling 93%

Waking in a cave with no memory, a daylight vampire discovers her skin is a death sentence.

by Octavia E. Butler 2005

3.79

40k+ ratings

🧬 Biological Vampires ☀️ Daylight Vampire 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 🖤 Found Family 💉 Coercive Symbiosis

Reign of Night

by Sara C. Roethle • 2022

Bound to an ancient vampire, a hunter must choose: avenge her uncle, or betray her master.

4.02

4k+

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🗡️ Sentient Weapon 💀 Vengeance Quest 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Blood Bond

Reign of Night 93%

Bound to an ancient vampire, a hunter must choose: avenge her uncle, or betray her master.

by Sara C. Roethle 2022

4.02

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🗡️ Sentient Weapon 💀 Vengeance Quest 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Blood Bond

The Passage

by Justin Cronin • 2010

A government experiment unleashes a vampiric plague, and a child may be the world's only hope.

4.05

224k+

🧛 Vampire Apocalypse 🏘️ Walled Colony 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 👧 Chosen Child 🧠 Hive Mind Creatures

The Passage 93%

A government experiment unleashes a vampiric plague, and a child may be the world's only hope.

by Justin Cronin 2010

4.05

224k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Apocalypse 🏘️ Walled Colony 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 👧 Chosen Child 🧠 Hive Mind Creatures

Fury Bound

by Sable Sorensen • 2026

Her sister a Siphon, a street fighter claims a throne and an Alpha bond she cannot escape.

4.01

79k+

🖤 Dark Romantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🔗 Fated Mates 👑 Hidden Heir

Fury Bound 92%

Her sister a Siphon, a street fighter claims a throne and an Alpha bond she cannot escape.

by Sable Sorensen 2026

4.01

79k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🔗 Fated Mates 👑 Hidden Heir

Eve of Snows

by L. James Rice • 2018

A gifted orphan hides deadly magic in a frozen monastery as ancient darkness stirs beneath.

4.03

196

🏛️ Monastic Fantasy 🔥 Forbidden Magic ⛪ Corrupt Priesthood 👁️ Ancient Evil 🦴 Prophecy Manipulation

Eve of Snows 92%

A gifted orphan hides deadly magic in a frozen monastery as ancient darkness stirs beneath.

by L. James Rice 2018

4.03

196 ratings

🏛️ Monastic Fantasy 🔥 Forbidden Magic ⛪ Corrupt Priesthood 👁️ Ancient Evil 🦴 Prophecy Manipulation

The Tale of the Vampire Bride

by Rhiannon Frater • 2009

Dracula invites a family to his castle; he has chosen the daughter to become his vampire bride.

4.09

1k+

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🗡️ Feminist Vampire 💔 Forced Transformation 🩸 Vampire Brides 🕯️ Gothic Seduction

The Tale of the Vampire Bride 92%

Dracula invites a family to his castle; he has chosen the daughter to become his vampire bride.

by Rhiannon Frater 2009

4.09

1k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🗡️ Feminist Vampire 💔 Forced Transformation 🩸 Vampire Brides 🕯️ Gothic Seduction

Eternal Reign

by Caroline Peckham • 2019

A failed escape leaves one twin a vampire's captive and the other a slayer awakening.

4.03

17k+

🧛 Vampire Dystopia 👯 Twin Sisters 🖤 Vampire Captive Romance ⚔️ Reluctant Allies 🏰 Vampire Court Intrigue

Eternal Reign 92%

A failed escape leaves one twin a vampire's captive and the other a slayer awakening.

by Caroline Peckham 2019

4.03

17k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Dystopia 👯 Twin Sisters 🖤 Vampire Captive Romance ⚔️ Reluctant Allies 🏰 Vampire Court Intrigue

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

by Carissa Broadbent • 2022

A human among vampires enters a lethal tournament with only a secretive rival as her ally.

4.26

772k+

🗡️ Deadly Tournament 🩸 Vampire Romance 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity 👑 Secret Lineage

The Serpent and the Wings of Night Summary

The Serpent and the Wings of Night 92%

A human among vampires enters a lethal tournament with only a secretive rival as her ally.

by Carissa Broadbent 2022

4.26

772k+ ratings

🗡️ Deadly Tournament 🩸 Vampire Romance 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity 👑 Secret Lineage

Blood Trial

by Kelly St. Clare • 2019

She walked away from a fortune. The vampire who hired her owns her now.

4.19

10k+

🏛️ Vampire Politics 🕶️ Hidden Vampire World 💫 Fated Bond ⛓️ Captive To Lover 🖤 Morally Gray Hero

Blood Trial 92%

She walked away from a fortune. The vampire who hired her owns her now.

by Kelly St. Clare 2019

4.19

10k+ ratings

🏛️ Vampire Politics 🕶️ Hidden Vampire World 💫 Fated Bond ⛓️ Captive To Lover 🖤 Morally Gray Hero

Wormwood

by G.P. Taylor • 2004

When a comet fractures London, a servant's stolen prophecy book may be the city's only salvation.

3.10

2k+

🏛️ Biblical Fantasy ⚔️ Angelic Warfare 🌫️ Gothic London 😇 Fallen Angel 📖 Forbidden Tome

Wormwood 92%

When a comet fractures London, a servant's stolen prophecy book may be the city's only salvation.

by G.P. Taylor 2004

3.10

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Biblical Fantasy ⚔️ Angelic Warfare 🌫️ Gothic London 😇 Fallen Angel 📖 Forbidden Tome

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