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What to read after “Certain Dark Things” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Noir” and “Vampires”
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.
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Storm Front
Jim Butcher · 2000
From the same world: “Noir” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Noir
- Urban Fantasy
Harry Dresden is Chicago's only professional wizard, listed in the phone book and usually broke. When the police consult him on a double murder, he finds a sorcerer using black magic in a city where vampires and crime bosses all want a piece of the investigation.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
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Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.
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Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
In a future Atlanta where magic and technology take turns ruling the streets, mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up supernatural problems for hire. When her guardian is murdered, she is drawn into a war between necromancers and a shapeshifter clan to find the killer.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.
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Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff · 2021
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
For nearly thirty years the sun has not risen, and vampires have built an empire on the ruins of humanity. Gabriel de León, last of a holy brotherhood sworn to hunt them, is imprisoned and forced to tell the story of his life and the secret he has guarded.
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Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Peter Grant, a London police officer, discovers that magic is real when he interviews a ghost about a headless corpse. He is assigned to a small, secret unit of the Metropolitan Police that deals with supernatural crime, and takes on a case that stirs up the city's old spirits.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Survival
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
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Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.