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Books like Dark Shadows: 9 series to read next

Dark Shadows is 36 books, 1966–1980.

“Thirty-two novels appeared between December 1966 and March 1972, alongside a novelization of the 1970 feature film House of Dark Shadows.”
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Dark Shadows Universe
Dracula
The Shining
Lewis Barnavelt
The Lost Bride Trilogy
The Romancist and Novelist's Library
Jerusalem's Lot
Anthony Monday
Graveminder

Dark Shadows UniverseSeries

seriesMarilyn Ross, Ariel Marie, Lara Parker, Barnabas Collins, Beth Tignor, Dale Clark (I), D. J. Arneson, Elizabeth Massie, Lucille Staszak, Quentin Collins & Stephen Mark Rainey49 books1966

Start with A Twist of Mind →

DraculaUniverse

universe144 books1897

Horror.

“Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dracula →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About psychic powers and addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Start with The Shining →

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

seriesBrad Strickland & John Bellairs12 books1973

“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 →

The Lost Bride TrilogySeries

seriesNora Roberts3 books2023

Gothic and ghost stories, about curses and family secrets, set in north america and contemporary.

“Inheritance opens Nora Roberts's Lost Bride trilogy, following a woman who inherits a Maine house entangled with a generations-old family curse and the restless spirit of a bride who never got to live in it.”
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Start with Inheritance →

The Romancist and Novelist's LibrarySeries

seriesMatthew Gregory Lewis, uncredited, William Hazlitt, Ann Radcliffe, Clara Reeve, Eliza Parsons, Friedrich von Schiller, Horace Walpole, Johann Karl August Musäus, Lorenz Flammenberg, Mrs. Sheridan & Percy Bysshe Shelley16 books1764

Gothic, set in europe.

Start with The Romancist and Novelist's Library: The Best Works of the Best Authors; Volume II →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About grief and loss, set in small town.

“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 →

Anthony MondaySeries

seriesJohn Bellairs4 books1978

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

“Anthony and his friends generally overcome evil forces bent on ending the world.”
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Start with The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn →

GraveminderSeries

seriesMelissa Marr6 books2011

Set in contemporary.

“When the ritual isn't performed correctly, the dead rise, drawing Rebekkah into a web of secrets alongside Byron Montgomery, the town's Undertaker and her old love interest.”
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Start with Graveminder →

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What should I read after Dark Shadows?: Dark Shadows Universe — the closest match to Dark Shadows on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dark Shadows?: Dark Shadows. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dark Shadows.
How big is Dark Shadows?: Dark Shadows is 36 books, 1966–1980.

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