5 Best dark books like Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes

Cover of Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes

Danse Macabre

By: Laura M. Hughes

4.04

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: 2-Oct-2016; 4-Feb-2016; 9-Oct-2015…

If you liked the dark plot in Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2) by Mark  Lawrence

1. King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.18

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to … read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The way I’d put it,"

-Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)

"I’d be happier on a horse,"

-Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)

"We’re going to need a bigger army,"

-Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)

"A Dark time comes. My time. If it offends you. Stop Me."

-Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)

Cover of Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S.A. Corey

2. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 608 pages, ebook

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major tel… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"So,"

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"I’m really wishing Titan were still on that list of options."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"The real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"History was a cycle. Everything that had happened before, all the way back through the generations, would happen again."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

Cover of Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) by Robin Hobb

3. Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

By: Robin Hobb

4.18

Format: None pages, None

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one youn… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fa!"

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"But in my heart, when I said “my king,"

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it."

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

"Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years."

-Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1) by Josiah Bancroft

4. Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower ho… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure."

-Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1)

"Each spring, the schoolhouse was painted white as a bride, and every year the oceanic elements slowly undressed it."

-Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1)

"The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared …"

-Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1)

"I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don’t stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don’t draw …"

-Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, #1)

Cover of The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil, #1) by Courtney Schafer

5. The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil, #1)

By: Courtney Schafer

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover. He's in high demand as a guide for the caravans that carr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Magicians (The Magicians #1) by Lev Grossman

6. The Magicians (The Magicians #1)

By: Lev Grossman

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the r… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1) by Miles  Cameron

7. The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

By: Miles Cameron

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild. T… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Seventh Bride

By: T. Kingfisher

3.09

Format: None pages,

Rhea is an ordinary miller's daughter, engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances to a ma… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6) by James S.A. Corey

9. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1) by David Gemmell

10. Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1)

By: David Gemmell

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Druss, Captain of the Axe, whose fame was legendary, had chosen to wait for death in a mountain hid… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

11. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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12. The Library at Mount Char

By: Scott Hawkins

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart sl… read more

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13. Paternus: Rise of Gods (Paternus, #1)

By: Dyrk Ashton

4.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate cover edition for  Even myths have legends. And not all legends are myth. Whe… read more

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14. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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Cover of Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1) by Ed McDonald

15. Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

By: Ed McDonald

4.10

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tatt… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Just because the wolf pack fears your sling doesn’t mean you stop carrying stones."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"Fight the battles you can win, run from those you can’t. Good words to keep you alive."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"It is the way of the world that good people try to do the right thing for the wrong people's wrong reasons."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"Just because he wasn’t Nameless didn’t make it smart to underestimate him; a knife may not be a longsword, but the edge will cut you all the same."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

16. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

By: Roger Zelazny

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more

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17. Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now--and king of seven nations. His goal--revenge against his father--h… read more

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18. The Vagrant (The Vagrant, #1)

By: Peter Newman

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vagrant is his name. He has no other. Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn… read more

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Cover of Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1) by Terry Pratchett

19. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

20. Dark Moon

By: David Gemmell

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The peaceful Eldarin were the last of three ancient races. The mystical Oltor, healers and poets, h… read more

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Cover of Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6) by Christopher Ruocchio

21. Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.62

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more

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  • dark
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Your road will not be easy, nor your burden light." "That does not matter," I said. "It must be."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

"I was nothing at all. The barest drop in a limitless ocean. One photon against the infinite Dark."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

"You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

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22. Hellmouth

By: Giles Kristian

4.00

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Bohemia. 1370. A lost soul named Galien leads a band of hardened mercenaries on a mission for Mothe… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater, #4) by Christopher Ruocchio

23. Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater, #4)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.47

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fa… read more

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  • dark
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lancelot (The Arthurian Tales, #1) by Giles Kristian

24. Lancelot (The Arthurian Tales, #1)

By: Giles Kristian

4.22

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

The legions of Rome are a fading memory. Enemies stalk the fringes of Britain. And Uther Pendragon … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What is the worst they can do to us?" Perhaps I was a fool but I felt neither fear nor regret. And as for Guinevere, I loved her and she loved me; I believed that was enough."

-Giles Kristian, Lancelot (The Arthurian Tales, #1)

"Shh. There now, the pain will ease,' Arthur said. There was no abashment in him, no fear that his intimacies should be overheard by strangers. The unease belonged to us who trespassed with our eyes a…"

-Giles Kristian, Lancelot (The Arthurian Tales, #1)

"Then we pulled back, and for several heartbeats just looked into each others eyes, Guinevere's white teeth dragging at her bottom lip. Not, I think, because of some nervousness, or fear of getting ca…"

-Giles Kristian, Lancelot (The Arthurian Tales, #1)

"The beacon flames leapt high into the night sky, the crack and pop of the fire-ravaged wood carrying across the water which was dark but for the copper gloss which those flames cast a spear-throw dis…"

-Giles Kristian, Lancelot (The Arthurian Tales, #1)

Cover of Ashes of Man (Sun Eater, #5) by Christopher Ruocchio

25. Ashes of Man (Sun Eater, #5)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.54

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The fifth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) by Christopher Buehlman

26. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

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27. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • paranormal
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark  Lawrence

28. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By: Mark Lawrence

None

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Murder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1) by Morgan Stang

29. Murder at Spindle Manor (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #1)

By: Morgan Stang

4.09

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Mysteries abound in Spindle Manor. For Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, the countryside inn is the last… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes

30. Danse Macabre

By: Laura M. Hughes

4.04

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: 2-Oct-2016; 4-Feb-2016; 9-Oct-2015… read more

Similar categories in Laura M. Hughes's Danse Macabre book and Laura M. Hughes's Danse Macabre

  • dark fantasy
  • gothic
  • novella
  • short stories
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • dark
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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