In Daniel R. Hersch’s The Laughter from the Dark, when Cain, the first son of the first human family, murders his brother, his bloodline is linked to a cursed laughter that spreads through the city. His descendants, later called the Ones Who Laugh, use forbidden...

Daniel R Hersch’s The Witch-Bane, book two in The Death Keeper Chronicles, takes Alexander Wren and his vampire wife, Yiyao Shi, into a Phoenix murder investigation narrated by Death himself. When five-year-old Morgan Fowler is killed in her bedroom and occult markings cover the walls,...