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Books like Dark Shadows Universe: 9 series to read next

Dark Shadows Universe is 49 books, 1966–2017.

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Dracula
The Shining
Jerusalem's Lot
The Vampire Chronicles
The Lost Bride Trilogy
Lewis Barnavelt
The Romancist and Novelist's Library
Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong)
Graveminder

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

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 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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

About immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue description of Interview with the Vampire
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Start with Interview with the Vampire →

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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Inheritance →

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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

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 →

Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong)Series

seriesKelley Armstrong & Seanan McGuire100 books1996

Urban fantasy.

“Each book tends to follow a different member of this hidden community while slowly building a shared, continuing world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Paranormal Romance Blues →

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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Graveminder →

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What should I read after Dark Shadows Universe?: Dracula — the closest match to Dark Shadows Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dark Shadows Universe?: A Twist of Mind. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dark Shadows Universe.
How big is Dark Shadows Universe?: Dark Shadows Universe is 49 books, 1966–2017.

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