Books like Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim) by Richard Kadrey

When ordinary Londoner Richard Mayhew rescues a bleeding stranger, he is thrust into London Below, a shadowy realm of monsters, angels, and underground society that forces him to fight for survival before he can return home.

Neil Gaiman’s American Waters combines Americana, fantasy, and ancient and modern mythologies into a story of a mysterious traveler who awakens city‑wide enigmas and the timeless clash of gods.

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

Stark, a bodyguard for Lucifer, becomes a cold‑hearted killing machine after a zombie bite, risking his humanity with a possible cure.

James Stark survives a decade in Hell, only to return to Los Angeles where angels and demons clash as he seeks revenge, redemption, and perhaps love in this irreverent supernatural thriller.

In 1988 Charleston, two high‑school best friends, Abby and Gretchen, discover that a night of skinny‑dipping has unleashed a dark presence. Their bond is tested as supernatural forces threaten to tear them apart.

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Nora Roberts delivers a thriller‑romance about the supernatural and spiritual warfare that intertwines friendship, love, and precognition.

When a hidden clue from a Holocaust survivor’s grave turns Stephen Friedman into an heir to a fortune, he must face a decades‑old serial killer, Roth Braun, whose obsessions threaten to claim everything in a high‑stakes cat‑and‑mouse thriller set in Los Angeles.

Vickie Preston, a survivor of a serial killer attack, teams with FBI paranormal unit to stop the Undertaker, who kidnaps and buries women in Boston while leaving cryptic clues and haunting her dreams.

Former superstar couple Thom and Jennifer Harlow vanish from their ranch, sparking a private‑investigation by famed agent Jack Morgan into secrets of fame, family, and financial ruin.

Aries, a former drug dealer, must complete a hit to pay off her debt to her ex-partner Case, a drug dealer, before her family is killed.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Reve Dyer, a famed Las Vegas illusionist, must protect her daughters after a dangerous sabotage in her act forces her into the mystical forest of Hawley Five Corners, Massachusetts, where an ancient grimoire may unlock her family’s secrets.