32 Books like The Historian

The Bewitching

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A grad student researching a forgotten horror writer wakes a witch, and she's the next course.

3.81

46k+

🕯️ Academic Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 💔 Saphic Yearning 📜 Found Manuscript 🔮 Generational Curse

The Bewitching 92%

A grad student researching a forgotten horror writer wakes a witch, and she's the next course.

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2025

3.81

46k+ ratings

🕯️ Academic Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 💔 Saphic Yearning 📜 Found Manuscript 🔮 Generational Curse

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

Dracula

by Bram Stoker • 1897

A solicitor visits a Transylvanian count and finds the doors locked and his host's reflection gone.

4.02

1.5M+

🖤 Epistolary Horror 🗡️ Vampire Hunter 🏰 Gothic Castle 🧛 Victorian Vampire 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror

Dracula 93%

A solicitor visits a Transylvanian count and finds the doors locked and his host's reflection gone.

by Bram Stoker 1897

4.02

1.5M+ ratings

🖤 Epistolary Horror 🗡️ Vampire Hunter 🏰 Gothic Castle 🧛 Victorian Vampire 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror

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 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 92%

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 Reaping

by Bernard Taylor • 1980

An artist's retreat to a crumbling manor becomes a trap when the household's true purpose surfaces.

3.57

915

🐐 Folk Horror 🏚️ Gothic Manor 🕯️ Secret Cult 🕰️ Immortality Ritual 🎭 Hidden Identities

The Reaping 91%

An artist's retreat to a crumbling manor becomes a trap when the household's true purpose surfaces.

by Bernard Taylor 1980

3.57

915 ratings

🐐 Folk Horror 🏚️ Gothic Manor 🕯️ Secret Cult 🕰️ Immortality Ritual 🎭 Hidden Identities

Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2020

A socialite follows a desperate letter into a decaying mansion where a fungal mind binds the family.

3.66

449k+

🍄 Fungal Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 👁️ Gothic Heroine 💀 Colonial Horror 🔥 Slow Burn Horror

Mexican Gothic 91%

A socialite follows a desperate letter into a decaying mansion where a fungal mind binds the family.

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020

3.66

449k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 👁️ Gothic Heroine 💀 Colonial Horror 🔥 Slow Burn Horror

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

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 93%

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

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 92%

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

Vampires of El Norte

by Isabel Cañas • 2023

1846. War returns a vaquero to the girl he thought dead, and to the vampires stalking her.

3.88

44k+

🏚️ Colonial Gothic 📜 Historical Horror 💞 Childhood Friends To Lovers 💔 Second Chance Romance 👑 Class Divide Romance

Vampires of El Norte 91%

1846. War returns a vaquero to the girl he thought dead, and to the vampires stalking her.

by Isabel Cañas 2023

3.88

44k+ ratings

🏚️ Colonial Gothic 📜 Historical Horror 💞 Childhood Friends To Lovers 💔 Second Chance Romance 👑 Class Divide Romance

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 91%

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

Midnight Rooms

by Donyae Coles • 2024

At her new husband's decaying manor, a young bride finds the family's appetites are not human.

3.38

2k+

🏚️ Gothic Manor 💍 Bartered Bride 👹 Monstrous In-Laws 🏠 House As Predator 🤔 Unreliable Narrator

Midnight Rooms 91%

At her new husband's decaying manor, a young bride finds the family's appetites are not human.

by Donyae Coles 2024

3.38

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Manor 💍 Bartered Bride 👹 Monstrous In-Laws 🏠 House As Predator 🤔 Unreliable Narrator

Carmilla

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu • 1872

A remote castle, a lonely girl, and the beautiful stranger whose love drains her of life.

3.87

208k+

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Gothic 🩸 Female Vampire 💔 Obsessive Love 😰 Atmospheric Dread

Carmilla 91%

A remote castle, a lonely girl, and the beautiful stranger whose love drains her of life.

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1872

3.87

208k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Gothic 🩸 Female Vampire 💔 Obsessive Love 😰 Atmospheric Dread

Empire of the Vampire

by Jay Kristoff

The sun has gone dark. A half-vampire and a street thief hold the world's last light.

4.33

82k+

⚔️ Grimdark Epic 🧛 Vampire Hunters 🤝 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Romance 🕯️ Chosen One Sacrifice

Empire of the Vampire 91%

The sun has gone dark. A half-vampire and a street thief hold the world's last light.

by Jay Kristoff 2021

4.33

82k+ ratings

⚔️ Grimdark Epic 🧛 Vampire Hunters 🤝 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Romance 🕯️ Chosen One Sacrifice

Abraham Lincoln

by Seth Grahame-Smith • 2010

After his mother's murder, Abraham Lincoln learns what killed her and picks up an axe.

3.72

139k+

🕯️ Secret History ⚔️ Monster Hunter 🩸 Vampire Conspiracy 📚 Literary Mashup 🎖️ Civil War America

Abraham Lincoln 93%

After his mother's murder, Abraham Lincoln learns what killed her and picks up an axe.

by Seth Grahame-Smith 2010

3.72

139k+ ratings

🕯️ Secret History ⚔️ Monster Hunter 🩸 Vampire Conspiracy 📚 Literary Mashup 🎖️ Civil War America

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

Bone China

by Laura Purcell • 2019

A lady's maid hides in a cliffside house where china keeps secrets and fairies are feared.

3.65

8k+

🌊 Seaside Gothic 🌿 Folk Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Obsessive Love

Bone China 91%

A lady's maid hides in a cliffside house where china keeps secrets and fairies are feared.

by Laura Purcell 2019

3.65

8k+ ratings

🌊 Seaside Gothic 🌿 Folk Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Obsessive Love

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 91%

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

A Land So Wide

by Erin A. Craig • 2025

To rescue her sacrificed love, a mapmaker must become the monster her settlement fears most.

3.57

5k+

🕯️ Gothic Fantasy 🌾 Folk Horror 🩸 Hidden Heritage 🦴 Supernatural Transformation 💔 Forbidden Romance

A Land So Wide 91%

To rescue her sacrificed love, a mapmaker must become the monster her settlement fears most.

by Erin A. Craig 2025

3.57

5k+ ratings

🕯️ Gothic Fantasy 🌾 Folk Horror 🩸 Hidden Heritage 🦴 Supernatural Transformation 💔 Forbidden Romance

Dunmoor

by London Clarke • 2021

He turned a cursed manor into an orphanage, but an ancient evil now stalks the children.

4.00

252

🕯️ Gothic Suspense 👻 Haunted Orphanage 🩸 Family Curse ⚜️ Secret Society 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

Dunmoor 91%

He turned a cursed manor into an orphanage, but an ancient evil now stalks the children.

by London Clarke 2021

4.00

252 ratings

🕯️ Gothic Suspense 👻 Haunted Orphanage 🩸 Family Curse ⚜️ Secret Society 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

The Madness

by Dawn Kurtagich • 2024

A psychiatrist returning to Wales to save a dying friend walks into a centuries-old hunting ground.

3.71

3k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic Horror 🧛‍♀️ Dracula Retelling 🦇 Women Hunting Monsters 🌿 Welsh Folklore 💀 Toxic Devotion

The Madness 92%

A psychiatrist returning to Wales to save a dying friend walks into a centuries-old hunting ground.

by Dawn Kurtagich 2024

3.71

3k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic Horror 🧛‍♀️ Dracula Retelling 🦇 Women Hunting Monsters 🌿 Welsh Folklore 💀 Toxic Devotion

Experimental Film

by Gemma Files • 2015

Her search for a lost silent film awakens a Slavic demon hungry for her autistic son.

3.52

4k+

🎭 Folk Horror 🎞️ Cursed Film 📖 Metafictional Horror 📜 Archival Obsession 👩‍👦 Maternal Anxiety

Experimental Film 92%

Her search for a lost silent film awakens a Slavic demon hungry for her autistic son.

by Gemma Files 2015

3.52

4k+ ratings

🎭 Folk Horror 🎞️ Cursed Film 📖 Metafictional Horror 📜 Archival Obsession 👩‍👦 Maternal Anxiety

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 91%

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

The Vampire Diaries, Volumes 1-4

by L.J. Smith • 1991

In Victorian London, a vampire hunts the real Ripper to save his brother from the gallows.

3.96

6k+

🩸 Historical Vampires 👬 Vampire Brothers 🔪 Jack The Ripper 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 💔 Vampire Guilt

The Vampire Diaries, Volumes 1-4 Summary

The Vampire Diaries, Volumes 1-4 91%

In Victorian London, a vampire hunts the real Ripper to save his brother from the gallows.

by L.J. Smith 1991

3.96

6k+ ratings

🩸 Historical Vampires 👬 Vampire Brothers 🔪 Jack The Ripper 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 💔 Vampire Guilt

Black Flame

by Gretchen Felker-Martin • 2025

Restoring a cursed Nazi film, a queer archivist discovers the footage wants to inhabit her.

3.54

4k+

🎞️ Cursed Film Horror 🩸 Queer Body Horror 📼 Archival Horror 💀 Nazi Occult 📖 Literary Horror

Black Flame 91%

Restoring a cursed Nazi film, a queer archivist discovers the footage wants to inhabit her.

by Gretchen Felker-Martin 2025

3.54

4k+ ratings

🎞️ Cursed Film Horror 🩸 Queer Body Horror 📼 Archival Horror 💀 Nazi Occult 📖 Literary Horror

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

by Stephen Graham Jones

At a Montana church in 1912, a Blackfeet vampire arrives to confess forty years of revenge.

3.96

62k+

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🏛️ Colonialism As Horror 🩸 Vampire Transformation 💔 Generational Trauma 🦴 Body Horror

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 91%

At a Montana church in 1912, a Blackfeet vampire arrives to confess forty years of revenge.

by Stephen Graham Jones 2025

3.96

62k+ ratings

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🏛️ Colonialism As Horror 🩸 Vampire Transformation 💔 Generational Trauma 🦴 Body Horror

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 92%

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

She Made Herself a Monster

by Anna Kovatcheva • 2026

A cursed orphan allies with a vampire slayer to fake her death and flee her abuser.

3.56

2k+

✊ Feminist Horror 🧛‍♀️ Vampire Hunter 💀 Fake Death 👭 Female Alliance 🔗 Patriarchal Abuse

She Made Herself a Monster 92%

A cursed orphan allies with a vampire slayer to fake her death and flee her abuser.

by Anna Kovatcheva 2026

3.56

2k+ ratings

✊ Feminist Horror 🧛‍♀️ Vampire Hunter 💀 Fake Death 👭 Female Alliance 🔗 Patriarchal Abuse

Bone of My Bone

by Johanna van Veen • 2026

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

3.79

2k+

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

Bone of My Bone 91%

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

by Johanna van Veen 2026

3.79

2k+ ratings

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

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 91%

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

The Wolf and the Watchman

by Niklas Natt och Dag • 2017

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

3.88

23k+

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

The Wolf and the Watchman 91%

A one-armed watchman and a dying lawyer pursue the fiend who dismembered a young man.

by Niklas Natt och Dag 2017

3.88

23k+ ratings

🌑 Nordic Noir 🕵️ Odd Couple Detectives 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Body Horror ⚖️ Corrupt Institutions

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