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Books like Anthony Monday: 9 series to read next

Anthony Monday is gothic and horror, set in north america, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Anthony Monday is 4 books, 1978–1992.

“Anthony and his friends generally overcome evil forces bent on ending the world.”
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Lewis Barnavelt
Johnny Dixon and the Professor
Coraline
Jerusalem's Lot
The Dark Is Rising
Talisman
A Darker Magic
Castle Rock
The Mayfair Witches Saga

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

seriesBrad Strickland & John Bellairs12 books1973

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
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Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

Johnny Dixon and the ProfessorSeries

seriesJohn Bellairs & Brad Strickland13 books1983

Gothic and horror, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world.”
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Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine →

CoralineSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002

Tense in tone, set in parallel universe.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
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Start with Coraline →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Tense in tone, about vampires and grief and loss.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in british isles.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

TalismanSeries

seriesStephen King, Peter Straub & Robin Furth4 books1984

Fantasy and portal fantasy, set in contemporary and north america.

“Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman follows twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer as he crosses between our world and the Territories, a parallel realm, on a cross-country quest to save his dying mother.”
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Start with The Talisman →

A Darker MagicSeries

seriesMichael Bedard3 books1987

Horror and fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“Now, 50 years later, she discovers the handbill from that same show in the desk of one of her students, Emily Endicott.”
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Start with A Darker Magic →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Horror, set in contemporary and north america.

“Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town that links a cluster of otherwise separate Stephen King novels and novellas, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and Elevation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nona →

The Mayfair Witches SagaSeries

seriesAnne Rice3 books1990

Dark fantasy, about witches.

Start with The Witching Hour →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Anthony Monday?: Lewis Barnavelt — the closest match to Anthony Monday on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Anthony Monday?: The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Anthony Monday.
How big is Anthony Monday?: Anthony Monday is 4 books, 1978–1992.
Is Anthony Monday finished?: Yes — 4 books, 1978–1992.

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