Passing the time between Buffy books...
Looking for your next read to pass the time between Buffy books? Dive into a curated list of supernatural thrillers, including Kat Richardson's Poltergeist, Ray Garton's The Loveliest Dead, and Max Allan Collins' Skin Game. From ghostly hauntings to gripping mysteries, these vampire-adjacent and paranormal fiction picks are the perfect Buffy the Vampire Slayer companion reads to fill the void.
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Skin Game
by Max Allan Collins
The saga of Dark Angel continues! Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have problems of their own. In an area under siege by the oppressive arm of the police, the transgenics must protect their fledgling colony against the outside world--a world that eyes them with contempt and suspicion . . . and will do anything to be rid of them. As the killings escalate, Joshua comes to Max with a dire suspicion: the killer may be one of their own. Tensions are high between normal humans and transgenics, and many inside the protected City would just as soon let the humans fend for themselves. Yet Max and her inner circle know they must investigate the crimes and stop the bloodshed. Doing nothing would simply give the normals more reasons to hate. But what they discover will shock even the most jaded among them--and expose a sinister agenda that leads to an old, nefarious foe. . . .
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The Loveliest Dead
by Ray Garton
A young family moves into their new home only to find they are not alone--they share the house with the dead.
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Poltergeist
by Kat Richardson
View our feature on Kat Richardson's Greywalker. Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases. In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper's been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper's investigation reveals something else entirely-they've succeeded. And when one of the group's members is killed in a brutal and inexplicable fashion, Harper must determine whether the killer is the ghost itself, or someone all too human. Read Kat Richardson's posts on the Penguin Blog.