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1 The Sandman : The Dream Hunters
Neil Gaiman, Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator)

Current:
9.6
Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while prepa ... [more] [Submit]
2 Preacher : Until the End of the World (Preacher Series , Vol 2)
Garth Ennis

Current:
9.5
In and of itself, the story of a man with one foot in Heaven and one foot in Hell is hardly original. But in the hands of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the story of Jesse Custer becomes a blasphemous masterpiece seething with originality. C ... [more] [Submit]
3 Preacher Proud Americans : Proud Americans (Preacher Library , Vol 3)
Garth Ennis

Current:
9.4
The Reverend Jesse Custer is a Texas minister who swears worse than a sailor and is not above killing people who get in his way. One might say he's lost his faith. No, he's just looking for God, and when he finds Him... Proud Americansmore] [Submit]
4 Preacher Ancient History : Ancient History
Garth Ennis

Current:
9.3
While technically the fourth book in the Preacher series, Ancient History isn't part of the main Preacher story line and doesn't even use any of the main characters (Reverend Jesse Custer, his girlfriend, Tulip, and his vampire buddy ... [more] [Submit]
5 Ghost in the Shell
Masamune Shirow

Current:
9.3
Ghost in the Shell is arguably the most widely acclaimed Japanese comics to hit America in the 1990s, no doubt in part due to the incredible animated feature-film adaptation. Whereas the film is a fairly straightforward science-ficti ... [more] [Submit]
6 The Sandman : The Wake
Neil Gaiman

Current:
9.3
This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and ... [more] [Submit]
7 Preacher : Gone to Texas (Vertigo)
Garth Ennis(Creator)

Current:
9.2
Here's a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it's the epitome of iconoclasm. Like a brutal accident, you can't watch but you can't turn away. The story fol ... [more] [Submit]
8 Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Remaining Sunlight
Andi Watson

Current:
9.2
For 17-year-old Buffy, slaying vampires is as common as doing homework--and sometimes easier. TV's hippest series is now the world's hippest graphic novel. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
9 Anne Rice's the Vampire Lestat : A Graphic Novel
Anne Rice

Current:
9.2
Anne Rice's novels appeal to many of her fans because of the lush descriptions of characters and settings. Faye Perozich and Daerick Gross do an incredible job of bringing that lush quality to this comics adaptation. Each page is fully pain ... [more] [Submit]
10 Violent Cases : Words & Pictures
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

Current:
9.1
Both Gaiman's precise and nostalgic writing and McKean's lavishly painted art will challenge your ideas of what a comic book is. A narrator remembers his childhood encounters with an old osteopath who claims to have treated Al Capone. Gradu ... [more] [Submit]
11 Spawn : Angela's Hunt (Spawn Series)
Neil Gaiman

Current:
9.1
Featuring Todd McFalane's popular character, Spawn, this book ties directly into it's popular storyline. Four-color artwork. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
12 Spawn #5
Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo (Illustrator)

Current:
9.0
As America's bestselling comic book for the last five years, this book features the character in incredible artwork by Greg Capullo and Marc Silvestri. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
13 Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice

Current:
8.9
Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New ... [more] [Submit]
14 The House
Bentley Little

Current:
8.9
If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bentley Little, then The House will give you the perfect opportunity to get to know this fine sorcerer of horror. Haunted houses are an endless source of fascination for writers of the m ... [more] [Submit]
15 I Am Legend
Richard Matheson

Current:
8.8
One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as scienc ... [more] [Submit]
16 Bloodsucking Fiends : A Love Story
Christopher Moore

Current:
8.7
Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer s ... [more] [Submit]
17 Psychic Warrior
David A. Morehouse

Current:
8.7
The thrilling and incredible true story of a man who stood by his convictions and blew the lid off a top-secret project and discovered a new universe of life and thought. --This text refers to the more] [Submit]
18 The Witches of Eileanan
Kate Forsyth

Current:
8.7
In the Celtic land of Eileanan, witches and magic have been outlawed, and those caught for practicing witchcraft are put to death! It is a land ruled by an evil Queen, where sea-dwelling Fairgean stir, and children vanish in the night. But ... [more] [Submit]
19 The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice

Current:
8.7
It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of he ... [more] [Submit]
20 The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
Anne Rice

Current:
8.6
After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in more] [Submit]
21 Lifeblood (The Vampire Files, No 2)
P. N. Elrod

Current:
8.5
The critically acclaimed saga of blood and passion as only vampire Jack Fleming could tell it... Read more ... [more] [Submit]
22 The Sub : A Study in Witchcraft
Thomas M. Disch

Current:
8.4
All is not remotely well in the unusual town of Leech Lake, Minnesota. Substitute teacher Diana Turney has lost her job, and is finally beginning to recall long-lost memories of being molested by her father, Wes. To make matters worse, Wes' ... [more] [Submit]
23 A Chill in the Blood (Vampire Files)
P. N. Elrod, P. N. Elerod

Current:
8.3
Gangland Chicago, 1937. Jack Fleming, vampire PI, doesn't care for the Mob. He was killed once by a Mob boss, see, and he's seen too many shot down since. Ambitious gangsters are like roaches--there always seem to be more coming out of the ... [more] [Submit]
24 The Dark Sleep (Vampire Files)
P. N. Elrod

Current:
8.2
Jack Fleming is one hell of a lucky guy for a dead man. As Elrod's eighth entry in the Chandleresque Vampire Files series opens, Fleming's got some mob money that nobody's missing; h ... [more] [Submit]
25 Black Light
Elizabeth Hand

Current:
8.2
Although Charlotte Moylan thinks she lives a rather ordinary and oftentimes dull life, the reality is far different. Her father is best known as the famous TV personality Uncle Cosmo, and her mother is a 20-year veteran of the daytime drama ... [more] [Submit]
26 Judgement of Tears : Anno Dracula 1959
Kim Newman

Current:
8.2
July 1959: The occasion is the marriage of Vlad Tepes, Count Dracula. The world's vampire elite have gathered in Rome for the union. Vlad's past wives have included Hungarian princesses, baronesses from California, and even Queen Victoria; ... [more] [Submit]
27 Violin
Anne Rice

Current:
8.2
If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel Violin. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie Alien. Like Rice ... [more] [Submit]
28 The Heart of a Witch
Judith Hawkes

Current:
8.2
In the small town of Green Hollow, New York, the Lockley Arms hotel stands as the meeting place for a coven of witches. When the hotel's owners perish in a mysterious car accident, the coven's leader searches for suitable replacements, for ... [more] [Submit]
29 The Sandman : The Kindly Ones
Neil Gaiman

Current:
8.1
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30 Preacher : War in the Sun (Preacher Series, Vol 6)
Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon (Illustrator)

Current:
8.1
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31 Death : The Time of Your Life (Death)
Neil Gaiman

Current:
8.0
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32 Deadman's Touch (Spawn, No 7)
Todd McFarlane

Current:
8.0
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33 Spawn: Book 3
Todd McFarlane, Tom Orzechowski

Current:
7.9
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34 Spawn Book Four
Todd McFarlane, Tom Orzechowski

Current:
7.9
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35 Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Dust Waltz
Daniel Brereton

Current:
7.8
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36 The Sandman Companion
Neil Gaiman, Hy Bender

Current:
7.8
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37 Spawn Book One
Todd McFarlane

Current:
7.7
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38 Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
Neil Gaiman

Current:
7.7
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39 Spawn Book Two
Todd MacFarlane, Todd McFarlane

Current:
7.7
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40 Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel

Current:
7.6
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41 Futility: Or The Wreck of the Titan 100th Anniversary edition
Morgan Robertson, Lee Reeve (Preface)

Current:
7.6
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42 Bloodcircle (The Vampire Files, No 3)
P. N. Elrod

Current:
7.4
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43 God Is a Bullet
Boston Teran, Teran Boston

Current:
7.3
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44 Last Call
Tim Powers

Current:
7.3
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45 The Bell Witch : An American Haunting : Being the Eye Witness Account of Richard Powell Concerning the Bell Witch Haunting of Robertson County, Tennes
Richard Powell, Brent Monahan

Current:
7.2
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46 Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel

Current:
7.1
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47 Art in the Blood (Vampire Files, No 4)
P. N. Elrod

Current:
7.1
Being a vampire isn't as glamorous as it sounds . . . Jack Fleming, Anerican journalist, was bitten by the wrong girl--and Jack joined the living dead. Eccentric detective Charles Escott helps Jack solve any strange cases that happen along ... [more] [Submit]
48 Preacher: Dixie Fried ( Preacher Library, Vol. 5)
Garth Ennis

Current:
7.1
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49 Preacher : Salvation
Garth Ennis

Current:
6.9
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50 Fire in the Blood (Vampire Files, No 5)
P. N. Elrod

Current:
6.9
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