Are spooky scary skeletons sending shivers down your spine?
Will dastardly demons and alpha shifters send tingles into your groiny bits?
This week on the podcast, it’s Paranormal Romances!
Join Meg & Nikki as they talk:
🎃 the things we love that go bump in the night
🎃 what type of vampire we’d be - sparkly or scary
🎃 how paranormal and fantasy are NOT the same thing
🎃 S-class superpowers & the mortals they love to date
Books & Media We Mention
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter by Laurell K Hamilton
Christine Feehan’s Carpathian, Drake Sisters, Leopard series
Sherrilyn Kennyon’s Dark Hunter series
A Discovery of Witches tv series
Meg’s Organic Cocoa Dusted Almonds
Our BIG HUGE List of Paranormal Book Recs
From Meg:
Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole (usually cross-species romance: vampires, weres, witches, demons, phantoms, fae, valkyrie)
First book: A Hunger Like No Other
Darkest London by Kristen Callihan (steampunk Victorian, mostly werewolves, ghosts & witches)
First book: Firelight
Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews (dystopian assassin surrounded by shifters, fighting (?) vampires)
First book: Magic Bites
All Souls by Deborah Harkness (she’s a witch, he’s a vampire)
Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs
Cinnamon roll vamps
From Nikki:
Kincaid Pack & Silver Oak Pack spin off by Kiki Clark (wolf shifters)
The Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series by SJ Himes (necromancers, fire mages, vampires, and more!)
Lily Mayne’s Monstrous series (monsters invade earth)
Charm City Chronicles by Meghan Maslow (shifter ravens and tigers)
Blackhaven Manor series by Arden Steele (dragons, fae, shifters all taking place in a hotel in the USA)
The Hidden Species, Here Be Dragons, Demons In Law, Ghostly Guardians, The Collective series all by Louisa Masters (shifters, demons, ghosts, dragons, fae, and hunters)
The Lords of Discord (and Kings of Chaos spinoff) by Jocelynn Drake (vamps, shifters, immortal beings)
The Wrong Alpha series by Alessandra Hazard
Muscle & Bone and then Mist & Marrow by Mary Calmes (shifters with A/B/O caste system, but no MPREG)
The Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed series by Vawn Cassidy (a human who investigates cases with ghosts)
Immortal Assassins series by Mia Monroe (vamps!)
Covens of Eaton Falls series by Mia Monroe (witches!)
The Lords of Otherworld series, which is a connected universe with Mages of Mistvale, Mystics of Mistvale, Demon Debacles, Innocent Monsters by Stella Rainbow (every short of creature you can imagine)
Jaclyn Osborn Sons of the Fallen series (angels and demons)
Lark Taylor’s The Reckless Damned, Damned Connections, and Hopeless Blessed series (demons, angels, and other hell-born beings)
Macy Blake’s connected universes of Chosen One, Chosen Champions, Hellhound Champions, Magical Mates (many species and types of paranormal creatures)
AJ Sherwood’s Fated Mates series that includes When to Keep Them, How to Woo Them, Where to Find Them (vamps)
AJ Sherwood’s R’iyah Family Archives series that includes A Mage’s Guide to Human Familiars, Aussie Terrors, and Wicky (mages, familiars, spellcasters)
AJ Sherwood Mack’s Marvellous Manifestations, a spin off of the Jon’s case files series (ghosts, supernatural investigations, demons)
Vampire Related Crimes (VRC) by Alice Winters (vampire cops)
Willow Lake Supernaturals by Lori Ames (shifters, hounds, and more)
The Spooky Boys series by Fae Quinn (shifters, vamps, ghosts, possessions)
Black & Blue series by Lily Morton (ghosts and hauntings and a psychic who can see them)
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