9 Best gothic books like The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers

Cover of The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers

The Star and the Strange Moon

By: Constance Sayers

4.13

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal my…

If you liked the gothic plot in The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

1. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
  • paranormal
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

2. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

3. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers

4. The Star and the Strange Moon

By: Constance Sayers

4.13

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal my… read more

Similar categories in Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • time travel
  • historical
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

5. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

6. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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7. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • time travel
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

Cover of The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn #1) by Jess Armstrong

8. The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn #1)

By: Jess Armstrong

3.56

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Arms… read more

Similar categories in Jess Armstrong's The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn #1) book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"The only creatures in my whole dismal life who never once failed me were an overly fluffy black house cat and an eccentric Scottish bookseller."

-Jess Armstrong, The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn #1)

Cover of The City of Stardust by Georgia  Summers

9. The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods an… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Summers's The City of Stardust book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

10. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter

11. The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Op… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Briar Book of the Dead book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

12. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

Cover of The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa Morgan

13. The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird

By: Louisa Morgan

4.02

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ability to see ghosts draws her into a journey of redemption and unexpected friendship in… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Morgan's The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox

14. The Book of Thorns

By: Hester Fox

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won’t wa… read more

Similar categories in Hester Fox's The Book of Thorns book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola

15. The Book of Secrets

By: Anna Mazzola

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Book of Secrets book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

16. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Witch You Weren't Here by Emma  Jackson

17. Witch You Weren't Here

By: Emma Jackson

3.69

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

One hurricane. Two stranded witches. Sparks are bound to fly... Kay knows three things to be a… read more

Similar categories in Emma Jackson's Witch You Weren't Here book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • fantasy
Cover of The Undying of Obedience Wellrest by Nicholas Bowling

18. The Undying of Obedience Wellrest

By: Nicholas Bowling

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

To the horror of young gravedigger, Ned, body-snatchers have been visiting his churchyard in the de… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Bowling's The Undying of Obedience Wellrest book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish (Hecate Cavendish #1) by Paula Brackston

19. The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish (Hecate Cavendish #1)

By: Paula Brackston

3.76

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston returns with a new, magic-infused series about He… read more

Similar categories in Paula Brackston's The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish (Hecate Cavendish #1) book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5) by Deborah Harkness

20. The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

By: Deborah Harkness

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly ant… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Harkness's The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5) book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Kümmere dich um deine eignen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse." S. 222"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Sehnsucht spornt mich an, Furcht bremst mich ... Was für ein Weg, gerade oder krumm, wird mir Frieden geben und mich erlösen?" S 414 f"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Du musst ihr [der Dunkelheit] die Stirn bieten ... Schau ihr ins Auge, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Die Dunkelheit ist von einer verschlagenen Tücke und du darfst nicht zulassen, dass sie deine Sch…"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

Cover of A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3) by Sarah  Hawley

21. A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3)

By: Sarah Hawley

3.99

Format: 444 pages, ebook

Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hawley's A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3) book and Constance Sayers's The Star and the Strange Moon

  • fantasy
  • vampires
  • paranormal
  • fiction

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Katherine Arden

4.02

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Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

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