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Books like Creature Encounters: 9 series to read next

Creature Encounters is horror, about survival, set in contemporary and our world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Creature Encounters is 5 books, 2021–2023.

“Stranded in the middle of the forest and without help, six crash survivors forge a plan to stay alive in the harsh conditions that surround them.”
from the catalogue description of It Came with the Crash

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Jerusalem's Lot
Rats
The Andromeda Strain
The Strain
Desperation/Regulators
They Thirst
Zom-B
Nat McPherson Universe
Meg / Loch Universe

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in small town and north america.

“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 →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Set in british isles.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Rats →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

About plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires and plague and pandemic, set in north america.

“When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK Airport with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather is called in and instead uncovers a vampiric plague beginning to spread through New York City.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Strain →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness, set in north america and small town.

“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Desperation →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About vampires, set in north america.

“In Robert R. McCammon's They Thirst, an ancient vampire prince arrives in Los Angeles and, in a matter of nights, begins turning the city into a stronghold for the undead, with Disneyland as an eerie staging ground for his conquest.”
from the catalogue description

Start with They Thirst →

Zom-BSeries

seriesDarren Shan12 books2012

Zombie horror and post-apocalyptic.

“B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors of high school, making allegiances with anyone with enough gall to fight off their pursuers.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Zom-B →

Nat McPherson UniverseSeries

seriesJ. H. Moncrieff4 books2017

Horror, tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary.

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Meg / Loch UniverseSeries

seriesSteve Alten11 books1997

Science fiction, tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

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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 Creature Encounters?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Creature Encounters on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Creature Encounters?: It Came with the Crash. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Creature Encounters.
How big is Creature Encounters?: Creature Encounters is 5 books, 2021–2023.

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