If Lasher’s insinuating grip on the Mayfairs and his fixation on Rowan hooked you, you’ll relish the Caskey dynasty’s entanglement with the mysterious Elinor Dammert in Blackwater. Set in a flood-prone Alabama town, this Southern Gothic saga follows generations as an otherworldly force weds itself to a wealthy family—much like Lasher weaving through the Mayfair line—bringing prosperity, obsession, and ruin in equal measure.

You loved how the Mayfair chronicle stretches across centuries through Talamasca records and family histories. In Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, English magic’s long dormancy ends as Norrell and Strange revive it, stirring legends of the Raven King and altering the course of the Napoleonic Wars. That same grand, time-layered sense of hidden power shaping lives echoes the Mayfairs’ far-reaching legacy.

If the Talamasca dossiers, the Mayfair genealogy, and Rowan and Michael’s research into Lasher’s origins drew you in, A Discovery of Witches delivers that same scholarly thrill. Historian-witch Diana Bishop stumbles on the bewitched manuscript Ashmole 782 at Oxford, igniting interest from a governing body of creatures—much like the Talamasca’s watchful eye—and unraveling a web of meticulous magical history.

If the measured, atmospheric build of The Witching Hour—from the Garden District to Talamasca archives—kept you rapt, The Historian mirrors that slow-burn momentum. A daughter follows her father’s trail of letters, marginalia, and maps across Europe to uncover Vlad Dracula’s legacy, echoing the Mayfairs’ piecemeal revelations about Lasher through manuscripts and testimonies.

If you were captivated by the embedded histories—the Talamasca’s reports, family recollections, and the Mayfair women’s accounts—The House of the Spirits uses journals and shifting narrators to chart the Trueba family across decades. Clara’s notebooks and the family’s intertwined fates evoke the same nested storytelling and gradual unveiling of a clan bound to uncanny forces.