10 Best Horror Mystery Books Featuring Zombies and Vampires!
Welcome all hard-boiled horror enthusiasts and midnight mystery mavens! If you can't get enough of the uncanny atmospheres where the undead roam and where bloodthirsty creatures stalk the night, then you've hit the jackpot with this list. Combining two beloved genres, horror and mystery, these tales establish a perfect stage for exquisite terror and suspense. What makes it extra entertaining? We added a dash of zombies and vampires into the mix to satisfy your spooky cravings!
From decaying zombies lumbering through eerie landscapes to snarling vampires lurking in shadowed corners, each enthralling novel on this list boasts spine-chilling encounters led by iconic members of the undead. But there's more to these books than just grotesque monsters. Prepare your detective hats, for these stories feature intricate plot lines, twisting and turning with red herrings and culminating in shocking reveals that will have you gasping out loud.
Whether you’re a horror veteran or a curious newcomer, this macabre medley of zombies, vampires, mystery, and horror is guaranteed to get your pulse racing and the pages turning. Buckle up, and dive into these dark worlds where sinister surprises and electrifying enigmas await you. Happy reading and remember - keep the lights on!
『Already Dead』
Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt. There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word. From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City. Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.
Author | Charlie Huston |
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Price | $10.99 |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Release Date | Dec 18, 2007 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Passage』
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, turned to hell. All that remains is the long fight ahead for the stunned survivors faced with a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse. As civilization crumbles, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old oprhan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project, and Brad is determined to protect her. But, for young Amy, escaping is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun in the first place.
Author | Justin Cronin |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Anchor Canada |
Release Date | May 17, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Strain』
At New York’s JFK Airport, an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane—–and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like all-consuming wildfire—–lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world.
Author | Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Release Date | Sep 20, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『Patient Zero』
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance....
Author | Jonathan Maberry |
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Price | $12.99 |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Release Date | Mar 03, 2009 |
Source | Google Books |
『I Am Legend』
A special pocket-sized hardcover edition of the New York Times bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson--one of genre literature's most honored storytellers . Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?
Author | Richard Matheson |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Release Date | Nov 12, 2019 |
Source | Google Books |
『Cell』
Author | Stephen King |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | DEBOLSILLO |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2008 |
Source | Google Books |
『'Salem's Lot』
SOON TO BE A NEW FILM, STREAMING ON MAX FALL OF 2024 • #1 BESTSELLER • Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. "A master storyteller." —The Los Angeles Times When two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town. With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.
Author | Stephen King |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Anchor |
Release Date | May 06, 2008 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Beautiful』
Now in paperback, the first book--an instant bestseller--in the sumptuous, sultry, and romantic YA vampire series from New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh. In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city becoming embroiled in the glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in Sébastien's own lair--the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks--Celine must battle her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.
Author | Renée Ahdieh |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin |
Release Date | Jun 29, 2021 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Reapers Are the Angels』
Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free. For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks. “Alden Bell provides an astonishing twist on the southern gothic: like Flannery O'Connor with zombies.” —Michael Gruber, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Air and Shadows
Author | Alden Bell |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Holt Paperbacks |
Release Date | Aug 03, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Forest of Hands and Teeth』
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power. And, when the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death? [STAR] "A bleak but gripping story...Poignant and powerful."-Publishers Weekly, Starred "A postapocalyptic romance of the first order, elegantly written from title to last line."-Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan "Intelligent, dark, and bewitching, The Forest of Hands and Teeth transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty. Mary's world is one that readers will not soon forget."-Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of City of Bones "Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth is like cracking Pandora's box: a blur of darkness and a precious bit of hope pour out. This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it."-Melissa Marr, bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange "Dark and sexy and scary. Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down."-Justine Larbalestier, author of How to Ditch Your Fairy
Author | Carrie Ryan |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Ember |
Release Date | Feb 09, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
Well, there you have it, folks! That wraps up my rundown of the top 10 horror mystery books that wonderfully blend the eeriness of zombies and the suave menace of vampires. Believe me, these stories were handpicked not only for their captivating plots, but also for their astounding creativity, chilling suspense, and unusual blend of two of horror's most iconic figures. They manage to raise the hairs on your back, deliver those shivers of anticipation, and they're perfect for those long nights when you want to duck under a blanket, snug with a steaming mug of hot cocoa, and seriously contemplate leaving every light on in the house. So, what are you waiting for? Paint those shadows, let your imagination run wild, and take a bite, or rather a read, into these mesmerizing horror masterpieces. Don't forget to keep a garlic clove nearby just in case - you know, for the vamps! Happy, or should I say horrifying, reading!
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