If Sam figuring out his powers between shifts at Potato Palace, trading quips with Ramon, and crossing claws with Brid’s werewolf world hooked you, you’ll love how Harry Dresden wisecracks his way through demon-summonings and mob hexes in Storm Front. Like Sam vs. Douglas, Harry takes on a ruthless dark mage in modern streets, mixing danger, deadpan humor, and messy magical politics.

Did Brooke’s talking head in a box make you laugh and wince at the same time? John Dies at the End doubles down on that vibe: first-person, no-filter narration, grotesque monsters invading everyday life, and jokes as sharp as a necromancer’s bone saw. If you enjoyed Sam cracking jokes while locked in Douglas’s basement cage, you’ll click with Dave and John barely holding reality together with sarcasm and improvised exorcisms.

Watching Sam bumble from fry cook to fledgling necromancer—leaning on Brooke, Ramon, and Brid—has the same charge as Lucy joining Lockwood’s ghost-hunting crew in The Screaming Staircase. Like Sam’s first confrontations and shaky confidence, Lucy learns on the job against lethal spirits, trading witty banter and building a found-family team while the stakes get scary fast.

If Douglas’s bone-deep necromancy and the way he toys with souls chilled you, Anna Dressed in Blood hits that same nerve. Ghost hunter Cas faces a murderous spirit whose power feels as unpredictable and brutal as Douglas’s—only this time the haunting has its own tragic will. Expect vicious confrontations, blood-soaked set pieces, and the kind of moral tangle Sam faces when death doesn’t play fair.

If Sam’s wry, in-over-his-head narration—joking through terror, arguing with predators, and learning the ropes of death—won you over, Croak delivers that in spades. Lex’s first-person snark powers a darkly comic tour of grim reaper training, with mentor trouble, morally sticky rules about who dies (echoing Sam’s clashes with Douglas’s ethics), and a mystery that turns the jokes razor-sharp.