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Books like Drive-In: 9 series to read next

Drive-In is horror. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Drive-In is 7 books, 1988–2024.

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Stephen King multiverse
Jerusalem's Lot
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
Desperation/Regulators
Shock
Suburban Gothic Universe
Beast House Chronicles
Rats
Seasons of Horror

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and 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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Set in 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 →

ShockSeries

seriesRichard Matheson4 books1961

Horror and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about madness, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Shock! →

Suburban Gothic UniverseSeries

seriesBryan Smith & Brian Keene17 books2007

Horror, set in contemporary.

Reading order →

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 →

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 →

Seasons of HorrorSeries

seriesDan Simmons7 books1990

Horror, eerie in tone, set in north america.

Start with Summer of Night →

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 Drive-In?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to Drive-In on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Drive-In?: The Drive In. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Drive-In.
How big is Drive-In?: Drive-In is 7 books, 1988–2024.

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