If you loved how Charlotte Norbury sifts through journals, letters, and documents to trace James’s fate and the machinations of the Aegolius Club, you’ll relish how Dracula unfolds through Mina and Jonathan Harker’s journals, Lucy’s letters, and newspaper clippings. That same paper-trail suspense—piecing together a hidden vampire network from firsthand accounts—builds a creeping dread and a thrilling sense of discovery.

The shadowy ruthlessness of the Aegolius Club and the brutal realities Charlotte uncovers echo in Joey Peacock’s confession of vampire life in 1970s New York. Like the grim corners of The Quick’s London—where predation is masked by manners—The Lesser Dead dives into turf wars, manipulative elders, and the everyday logistics of feeding, all with a dark, visceral edge you’ll recognize.

If Charlotte’s hunt across London—pressing servants, doctors, and clubmen for answers about James and the Aegolius Club—hooked you, you’ll be right at home with Mary Jekyll’s inquiry into a string of grisly killings. The case threads through drawing rooms and secret societies, pulling back the same velvet curtain of respectability to reveal the monstrous dealings underneath.

Enjoyed how The Quick shifts among James Norbury, Charlotte, and others to widen the lens on London’s hidden vampires? The Passage scales that up, weaving journals, testimonies, and multiple perspectives into an expansive narrative of a world reshaped by the virals. The chorus of voices deepens the stakes and mirrors the layered view you liked in James and Charlotte’s intersecting stories.

If the slow, steady tightening of the noose in The Quick—as Charlotte combs libraries, correspondence, and whispered accounts to expose the Aegolius Club—was your favorite part, The Historian offers that same luxuriant build. Scholars follow cryptic letters across Europe, assembling a centuries-deep puzzle about Dracula, with tension and revelation accruing page by page.