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Guy Endore · 1933 · US · horror
★ 3.62 Goodreads · 1,541 ratings

Bertrand Caillet, born in rural France on a Christmas Eve, grows up with a terrible hunger, and his guardian tries to hide what he is as he grows into the Paris of the 1871 Commune.

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12 books for readers of The Werewolf of Paris

The Last Werewolf

Glen Duncan · 2011 · UK 95% match ★ 3.45 Goodreads · 16,988 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · cold, dark

Jake Marlowe, two hundred years old and, he is told, the last werewolf alive, has a month until the hunters come for him, and is tired enough to let them.

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux · 1910 · France 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 291,697 ratings
shares: Parisian, French, gothic · cold, easy read

A disfigured musical genius living in the cellars of the Paris Opéra falls obsessively in love with a soprano in the chorus, and the managers upstairs keep finding notes from Box Five.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 1831 · France 94% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 226,318 ratings
shares: Parisian, French, gothic · dark, cold

A deformed bell-ringer in medieval Paris falls in love with a beautiful dancer, and the cathedral that shelters him becomes a battleground between compassion and cruelty.

Blood and Chocolate

Annette Curtis Klause · 1997 · US 93% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 44,383 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · cold, earnest

Vivian Gandillon, a sixteen-year-old werewolf whose pack has fled to a Maryland suburb after a fire, falls for a human boy at school.

Red Moon

Benjamin Percy · 2012 · US 93% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 6,245 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · dark, cold

In an America where lycans are registered and drugged, a hijacking by lycan terrorists sets off a war, and a teenage girl who is secretly one of them has to run.

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice · 1976 · US 92% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 674,519 ratings
Book 1 of 13 in The Vampire Chronicles
shares: gothic · dark, cold

In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.

The Monk

Matthew Lewis · 1796 · UK 91% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 37,033 ratings
shares: gothic, classic · dark, cold

Ambrosio, the abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is revered for his piety, until a novice in his own house confesses a secret that sets him on the road to ruin.

The Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · 2017 · UK 91% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 50,833 ratings
shares: unsettling, gothic · easy read, dark

Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.

White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi · 2009 · UK 89% match ★ 3.53 Goodreads · 13,675 ratings
shares: unsettling, gothic · dark, cold

In a house in Dover that resents strangers, a girl with pica who eats chalk grieves her mother, and the house itself takes a turn telling the story of the women it has kept.

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 1859 · UK 89% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 1,037,577 ratings
shares: Parisian, revolution, French · exterior, earnest

A French aristocrat who renounced his title and a dissolute English lawyer who looks just like him love the same woman, and the Terror in Paris brings them both to the guillotine's shadow.

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert · 1869 · France 89% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 25,887 ratings
shares: Parisian, revolution, French · unhurried, cold

A young man in Paris during the 1848 revolution pursues love, ambition, and political ideals, and watches all three dissolve into mediocrity and regret.

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters · 2009 · UK 89% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 61,527 ratings
shares: unsettling, gothic · dark, cold

In the summer of 1947 a country doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Warwickshire house he once glimpsed as a boy, and becomes entangled with the family whose fortunes and nerves are failing.