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Books like Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: 9 series to read next

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is horror, about robots, set in contemporary and north america, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is 5 books, 2005–2011.

“A powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.”
from the catalogue description of Prodigal Son

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

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about vampires and 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 →

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 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 →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

About demons and parenthood.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rosemary's Baby →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness.

“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.

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Why these

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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 Dean Koontz's Frankenstein?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Dean Koontz's Frankenstein on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dean Koontz's Frankenstein?: Prodigal Son. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.
How big is Dean Koontz's Frankenstein?: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is 5 books, 2005–2011.

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