Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires

9 best books like Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires (Michael E. Bell): The Witching Hour, Gideon the Ninth, The Nanny, The Fountains of Silence, Snow, Glass, Apples, Growing Things and Other Stories, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians, Immortal Born, African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

The Witching Hour
AuthorAnne Rice
ISBN0099471426
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.

Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a...
Gideon the Ninth
AuthorTamsyn Muir
ISBN1250313198
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
The Nanny
AuthorGilly Macmillan
ISBN0062875574
The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another.

When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated....
The Fountains of Silence
AuthorRuta Sepetys
ISBN0399160310
A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.

Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine....
Snow, Glass, Apples
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN1472262913
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.

A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
Growing Things and Other Stories
AuthorPaul Tremblay
ISBN0062679147
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
AuthorRichard Sugg
ISBN0415674174
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague,...
Immortal Born
AuthorLynsay Sands
ISBN0062855239
A simple promise to protect her friend’s infant son has turned Allie Chambers’ existence upside down. Caring for—and feeding—an orphaned vampire baby has been tricky enough. But as little Liam grows, so does his appetite. He needs more blood than she can personally supply. And when her attempts...
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
AuthorThomas Lockley
Warrior. Samurai. Legend.

“A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington Post

The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.

When...
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