Which Best Paranormal Series Books Follow A Family Of Monster Hunters?

After loving Supernatural and The Witcher, I'm hooked on families in horror fiction taking down creatures together across generations. Any other series with this vibe?
2026-07-19 03:23:17
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BenBerry
BenBerry
Active Reader Editor
The 'Repairman Jack' series by F. Paul Wilson ties into his larger 'Adversary Cycle,' and while Jack is a lone fixer, he is fiercely protective of his girlfriend Gia and her daughter Vicky, who become his family. The threats are increasingly supernatural and cosmic. He's not a hunter by trade, but he constantly ends up hunting monsters and malign forces to protect his fledgling family unit. It's a slower burn on the family front, but the drive to protect them becomes the core motivation for facing down ever-greater horrors. It's more of a 'man becomes a monster hunter because of his family' narrative.
2026-07-21 08:32:54
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EdenMoore
EdenMoore
Story Interpreter Data Analyst
Don't sleep on indie and web serials! There's a fantastic progression fantasy on RoyalRoad called 'Beneath the Dragoneye Moons' where the healer protagonist, Elaine, is part of a lineage of guardians, but it's not strictly monster hunting... Hmm. Actually, for a pure family guild dynamic in a serial, 'The Wandering Inn' has the Reinhart family, but again, not hunters per se. The point is, the trad-pub answers will be limited. The real juicy, specific tropes are being explored in depth on serial platforms where 'clan-based monster hunting' is a whole subgenre. You just have to dig a bit.
2026-07-22 21:40:29
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PaigeLane
PaigeLane
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Ever read the 'Barrow Will' series? I might be mangling the name. There's a series about a family of monster hunters in the Old West. Or was that a comic? 'East of West' has families, but it's a sci-fi political apocalypse. I have a vague memory of a book about a family traveling in a wagon hunting wendigos. Maybe it's from a podcast. This is going to bug me all day. The internet has ruined my memory for book titles.
2026-07-25 04:13:49
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IrisBaird
IrisBaird
Insight Sharer Assistant
Is it cheating to say the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' novelizations and continuation comics? Because the core Scooby Gang is a chosen family, and Buffy herself comes from a line of Slayers (a kinda-sorta family legacy). The later season comic continuations, especially, delve into Buffy building a literal army of Slayers, which has a big found-family vibe. The novels by various authors capture the show's tone well—monster-of-the-week hunts with deep emotional stakes for the 'family' unit. It's not a blood family business, but it absolutely fits the spirit of the question if you're flexible.
2026-07-25 16:39:55
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Cider
Cider
Story Finder Engineer
A classic that often gets overlooked: the 'David Hooper' series by John Birmingham? No, that's not it. I'm mixing up my shelves. Maybe the 'Tome of Bill'? That's about a vampire, not a hunter. See, this is why I shouldn't post before coffee. I have a whole shelf of urban fantasy, and the perfect title is dancing just out of reach. I'll come back if it hits me.
2026-07-28 16:42:33
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