8 Horror Books for Fans of Sinners

While this fantastic novel doesn't have any vampires, the thematic material it's built upon most closely resembles the heart of Sinners.

The Birth of a Nation sweeps across America in 1915, doing a fine job of padding the Ku Klux Klan's ranks. But not everyone under those pointed hoods are ordinary white folk…

As twisted creatures ride across America, seeding fear and violence, their goal is to bring Hell to Earth. Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters have other plans.

Be it by blade, bullet, or bomb, the resistance hunts down the Klan demons and sends them right back to Hell. But in Macon, Hell's war is just getting started.

Two New Yorkers in their 20s—wallflower Seth and wealthy heir Carter—only have one thing in common: they are obsessed with music. However, while Seth is desperately looking toward the future, Carter is forever slipping back into the past.

One day, Seth accidentally records an incredible yet unknown singer in the park. Carter posts the recording online, fabricating a lie that it's lost media from a 1920s blues musician named Charlie Shaw.

Before long, an old collector reaches out to them, shocking them with the knowledge that their fake record and their fake musician are actually very real. Now these two white men, along with Carter's troubled sister, take a dark journey through the ugliest parts of the nation's history.

Here they find a hidden tale of greed, jealousy, vengeance, and exploitation.

Much like Sinners, this incredible book puts Delta Mississippi Blues at the core of the story, using it as a vehicle to point a finger at how culture is cannibalized.

While this Alma Katsu novel doesn't focus on the issues of Black history, it takes an unflinching look at the way an Asian minority was mistreated in our country's past. And it expertly wields the supernatural to do it.

In 1944, World War II is still in full-swing, with the threat having reached America's home front. For Meiko and Aiko Briggs, that means something a little different than it does for most Americans.

Months after Meiko's husband joined the war effort as an air force pilot, Meiko and her daughter were snatched from their Seattle home and sent to an internment camp in Idaho.

Despite the fact that young Aiko was born on American soil, the fact that the two of them were of Japanese heritage was enough to mark them as enemies of the American government.

As the mother and daughter struggle to hold on to some shreds of their old life, a mysterious disease begins to sweep through the prisoners. It begins as a simple cold, but progresses quickly into fits of violence—and eventually death.

A team of unsettling doctors arrives at the camp, and Meiko and Aiko join forces with a newspaper reporter and a widowed missionary to investigate. It seems something horribly sinister is unfolding—a demon from the tales of Meiko's childhood is here, determined to infiltrate this unstable world.

An artful reimagining of the vampire origin story, Blood Slaves is an alternate history that dares to ask, what if the slaves freed themselves—and did it 150 years before the Civil War ever began?

It's 1710 in the Province of Carolina, and Willie wants nothing more than to secure freedom for himself, his love, Gertie, and their unborn baby. But as they suffer every day under the brutal whims of their master, James “Big Jim” Barrow, freedom has never felt farther away.

To run away from this hellish plantation would mean they are hunted and killed. But Willie is offered a dark spark of hope by a mysterious slave, Rafazi, who has an eerie path to liberation.

Rafazi is from the Kingdom of Ghana, the last survivor of the African vampire tribe known as the Ramanga. For centuries he has walked the earth, desperate to revitalize the power of his people.

Willie is the first viable subject to turn. And Willie will do whatever it takes to free his people from bondage.

As, one by one, an army of blood-thirsty slaves rises for revenge, Gertie worries that the darkness of Rafazi's vampiric nature can bring them no good. But Willie believes that evil is the only thing that can combat evil.

When Gertie stands between the new Ramanga and the righteous slaughter of their oppressors, Willie is faced with a decision he can never take back.

Bull Ingram is a recent veteran of World War II who's just been hired by a Memphis DJ to track down Ramblin' John Hastur.

Hastur is an enigmatic bluesman whose dark music is said to drive the living mad and make the dead rise. Ingram is deeply disturbed by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, yet he hastily sets out into the backwoods of Arkansas to track the musician down.

Here, he uncovers a strange rumor: Hastur has sold his soul to the Devil. But the closer Ingram gets to Hastur, the more he discovers there are more wicked things out there than the Devil.

At the heart of Sinners is two very captivating love stories. So if socially conscious vampire romances are your thing, we've got you.

Marion Shaw grew up in the slums, knowing nothing but suffering, yearning, and lacking. All she's ever wanted is to leave the misery of the city behind, but she's never found a way out.

Everything changes with an odd listing in the newspaper: “WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.”

Marion applies for the role, though she knows very little about the north and the luxurious nobles there who drink blood. Within days she's hired at the notorious House of Hunger.

Suddenly, Marion is standing amidst a hedonistic court dripping with debauchery. A court run by Countess Lisavet, who is adored and feared in equal measure.

When the magnetic Lisavet takes a special interest in Marion, the girl is eager to satisfy. But there are old secrets hiding amongst the ancient halls of the House of Hunger.

If Marion does not learn the rules of her new position quickly, it may well lead her to an early grave.

A Lutheran pastor's diary from 1912 is found hidden inside a wall. The details penned inside describe a slow massacre—a chain of events which begins with 217 dead Blackfeet in the snow.

This story is unraveled in transcribed interviews conducted by a Blackfeet named Good Saab. What he unveils is a story of American Indian revenge which follows the destructive path of a vampire who has wrought havoc upon a Blackfeet reservation.

While a different tribe altogether, this is a great read for those who watched Sinners and wished to have a bigger slice of the Choctaw story. And one can never go wrong with a Stephen Graham Jones book.

For those who want to focus solely on the musical aspect of Sinners' eerie tale, this book blends British folk music and unsettling fae terrors.

The young members of the band Windhollow Faire are sent by their manager to an ancient country house called Wylding Hall. They're meant to be recording their album, but the dark secrets of the old home offer many distractions.

While they produce a record that makes them legends, it comes at a devastating cost. The lead singer, Julian Blake, disappears after the recording, never to be seen again.

Years later, the remaining musicians and the others entangled in the story come together to discuss the odd events of that life-changing summer. But who can truly say what became of Julian Blake?