If the stolen squid plunged you into London’s occult underbelly—complete with the Londonmancers, the Kraken cult, the Tattoo’s criminal empire, and assassins like Goss and Subby—then you’ll relish the plunge into London Below in Neverwhere. You’ll walk with Richard Mayhew and Door through markets on moving trains and meet angelic powers and cutthroat nobles who mirror the skewed, rivalrous city-politics you loved in Kraken.

Loved how Kraken let the impossible slither into the everyday—the cult-miracles, folded spaces, and prophetic inks? The Raw Shark Texts channels that same hallucinatory vibe, pitting a man with a blank past against a conceptual shark that hunts through language and memory. It’s the kind of surreal threat that would feel right at home alongside the Tattoo’s living skin and the museum’s vanishing Architeuthis.

If the labyrinthine occult map of London—its guilds, unions of familiars led by Wati, and theology around the kraken—hooked you, City of Stairs delivers that same rich density. Diplomat-spy Shara Komayd navigates Bulikov’s banned miracles and fractured histories, piecing together divine politics with the same detail and texture that made the Kraken cults and Londonmancer lore so addictive.

If you enjoyed Billy Harrow’s scramble to solve the Natural History Museum heist while dodging cults and killers, The Rook gives you another deliciously twisty investigation. Myfanwy Thomas wakes surrounded by bodies and letters from her former self, then must root out a traitor inside Britain’s supernatural agency—like swapping the FSRC and London’s cult turf-wars for a wry, paper-clipped gauntlet of eldritch threats.

If the mordant humor of Kraken—from the snark around cult prophecies to the grotesque menace of Goss and Subby—made you grin, The Library at Mount Char hits that same vein. Carolyn and her ‘siblings’ wield impossible, often horrifying talents under a godlike ‘Father,’ and the book balances cosmic cruelty with wicked, deadpan punchlines that echo Kraken’s funniest, bleakest moments.