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Books like Cedar Hill: 9 series to read next

Cedar Hill is horror, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Cedar Hill is 26 books, 1989–2008.

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The Shining
Jerusalem's Lot
Castle Rock
Shadows
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
Unnerving (Jennifer DiMarco)
Night
Seasons of Horror
House of Leaves

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

Tense in tone, about psychic powers and addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Shining →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Tense in tone, about vampires.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Horror, set in contemporary and small town.

“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 →

ShadowsSeries

seriesCharles L. Grant & T. E. D. Klein13 books1978

Horror, eerie in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“The short stories appearing in the Shadows largely dispensed with traditional Gothic settings, and had very little physical violence.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Shadows →

Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

seriesStephen King4 books1989

Psychological thriller, tense in tone.

“The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Home Delivery →

Unnerving (Jennifer DiMarco)Series

seriesJennifer Dimarco, uncredited & Brianne DiMarco7 books2019

Horror, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Monstrosity →

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
from the catalogue description

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Seasons of HorrorSeries

seriesDan Simmons7 books1990

Horror, eerie in tone, set in north america.

Start with Summer of Night →

House of LeavesSeries

seriesMark Z. Danielewski2 books2000

Literary & general, challenging in tone.

“A bestseller, it has been translated into a number of languages, and is followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with House of Leaves →

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 Cedar Hill?: The Shining — the closest match to Cedar Hill on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Cedar Hill?: Coffin County. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Cedar Hill.
How big is Cedar Hill?: Cedar Hill is 26 books, 1989–2008.

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