Books like “The Last Werewolf”

What to read after “The Last Werewolf” by Glen Duncan: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Elric of Melniboné
Michael Moorcock · 1972
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy” and “Melancholic”
Elric is the frail albino emperor of Melniboné, an ancient island empire long past its glory. Sickly and thoughtful, he rejects his people's cruelty, only for his cousin to seize the throne. To reclaim it he takes up the soul-drinking sword Stormbringer, and its price follows him.
2
A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Werewolves”
- Werewolves
- Immortal Protagonist
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
3
The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
Geralt of Rivia is a witcher, a mutated monster-hunter for hire. In linked stories he takes on curses, a striga and a djinn, and learns that the line between monster and human is rarely where the stories say it is.
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The Library at Mount Char
Scott Hawkins · 2015
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
Carolyn and a dozen other orphans were raised by a man they call Father, who taught them strange arts from a library that may hold the secrets of creation. When Father vanishes, the siblings turn on one another for his power, and Carolyn must decide what she will trade to win.
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The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle · 1968
Similar atmosphere: “Melancholic”
- Melancholic
- Immortal Protagonist
A unicorn learns she may be the last of her kind and leaves her forest to search for the others. With a bumbling magician and a sharp-tongued woman she travels to a king's castle, where love and loss wait at the end of the road.
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The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
For years the invading Jure'lia have been beaten back, but the cost has drained the empire. Tormalin, an exiled Eboran, and Vintage, a scholar, are hunting the truth about the fell-witches when they find Noon, a woman carrying a power the Jure'lia have waited centuries to claim.
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Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
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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The Unspoken Name
A. K. Larkwood · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
Csorwe was raised to be a sacrifice to the Unspoken One, until the wizard Belthandros offers her another life. Trained as his assassin and servant, she is sent to find a lost city and a door between worlds, and begins to wonder whether her second life is any freer than her first.
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Slade House
David Mitchell · 2015
Same genre: “Horror”
Behind a hidden door in a narrow London alley waits a house that appears only every nine years. Guests are drawn inside and never come out the same. Linked over decades, their stories reveal what feeds the house. A haunting dark-fantasy tale about appetite and illusion.
10
Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
Nine-year-old Jorg watched raiders murder his mother and brother. By thirteen he leads a band of killers, and by fifteen he means to take his father's throne. Ruthless and brilliant, he treats cruelty as a tool and will pay any price for the crown he believes is his.
11
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Werewolves”
- Werewolves
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 Monster Calls
Patrick Ness · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Melancholic”
- Melancholic
Thirteen-year-old Conor is visited at night by a monster shaped like a yew tree, who promises to tell him three stories in exchange for a fourth, one Conor must tell himself. Meanwhile his mother is ill, and Conor struggles with grief, anger and guilt.