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24 alternatives to Dead Until Dark

The first book in the Sookie Stackhouse Novels

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dead Until Dark launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Interview with the Vampire ▲75

   Number 1 in series (Vampire Chronicles)

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1)▲59

   The first entry in the sci-fi series, The Expanse.

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Nightmares!▲72

   The 1st in a trilogy where Charlie's stuck in his nightmares

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Abomination▲59

   "Game of Thrones by way of H.P. Lovecraft"

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Last Wish: Introducing The Witcher▲61

   The first book of the Witcher series

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania▲67

   Tale of the Lusitania & its fatal run-in w/ a german U-boat.

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Salem's Lot▲71

   An American horror story

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Lord of the Flies▲63

   Some call it the "Hunger Games before Hunger Games"

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural▲65

   A must-read collection of bone-chilling horror stories.

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Dark Forest▲71

    Part to of the acclaimed Three-Body Problem

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Scream▲56

    Chilling adventures in the science of fear

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Zac's Haunted House ▲54

    A novel told entirely in gifs

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Suffering▲55

    The darkness will find you

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    When To Rob a Bank▲165

    New book from the authors of Freakonomics

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Armada▲94

    Brand new novel by Ernest Cline (author of Ready Player One)

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Until Dawn▲54

    Adventure survival horror video game

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Eleanor: A Novel▲72

    A mix of ghost story, time travel and dream worlds.

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic▲71

    The sequel where Charlie escapes nightmares to find zombies

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, Book 1)▲53

    A compelling novel. A thriller certainly, but one that combi

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Ender's Game▲93

    The enemy's gate is down

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Wonderbook▲78

    The Illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Dark Beach #1▲56

    A new scifi noir comic

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Before the dawn▲66

    Recovering the lost history of our ancestors

    2015 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Abomination▲79

    First novel from the screenwriter of new Star Wars movie

    2015 · its alternatives →

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