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Books like Dead River: 9 series to read next

Dead River is horror, about survival, set in north america and contemporary, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dead River is 4 books, 1981–2011.

“A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River — off season — awaiting her sister and friends.”
from the catalogue description of Off Season

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Jerusalem's Lot
Desperation/Regulators
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
Beast House Chronicles
The Shining
The Indian Lake Trilogy
The Strain
They Thirst
Rats

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about vampires, set in our world.

“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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival and madness, set in contemporary and north america.

“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 →

Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

seriesStephen King4 books1989

Psychological thriller.

“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 →

Beast House ChroniclesSeries

seriesRichard Laymon4 books1980

Horror and splatterpunk, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.

“Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Cellar →

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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Shining →

The Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.

“Don't Fear the Reaper and The Angel of Indian Lake complete the trilogy's three-book arc, published through 2024.”
from the catalogue description

Start with My Heart Is a Chainsaw →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires and plague and pandemic.

“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 →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About vampires, set in big city.

“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 →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Set in british isles and big city.

“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 →

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 Dead River?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Dead River on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dead River?: Off Season. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dead River.
How big is Dead River?: Dead River is 4 books, 1981–2011.

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