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Books like Frankenstein: 9 series to read next
Frankenstein is fantasy and horror, set in our world and 19th century, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.
Frankenstein is 128 books across 16 series, 1818–2024.
“Light a candle against the November dark and consider what a single spark, rightly applied to dead matter, might wake.”
from the catalogue description
- Blade Runner Universe
- Jerusalem's Lot
- The Shining
- Foundation
- Rosemary Reilly
- Shock
- Coraline
- The Vampire Chronicles
- Frank Einstein
- Blade Runner UniverseSeries
seriesK. W. Jeter, Archie Goodwin, Les Martin & Philip K. Dick6 books1968
Cyberpunk, set in near future.
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- Jerusalem's LotSeries
seriesStephen King3 books1975
Horror, dark and tense in tone, about grief and loss, set in contemporary and our world.
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- The ShiningSeries
seriesStephen King5 books1977
About psychic powers and addiction.
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- Rosemary ReillySeries
seriesIra Levin2 books1967
About demons and parenthood.
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- ShockSeries
seriesRichard Matheson4 books1961
Horror and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about madness, set in contemporary and our world.
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- CoralineSeries
seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002
Portal fantasy, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.
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- The Vampire ChroniclesSeries
seriesAnne Rice15 books1976
Horror and gothic, dark in tone, about immortality and vampires, set in contemporary and our world.
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- Frank EinsteinSeries
seriesJon Scieszka11 books2014
About artificial intelligence.
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Read next in Frankenstein
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 Frankenstein?
- Blade Runner Universe — the closest match to Frankenstein on what it is about, not on what sells.
- Where do I start with Frankenstein?
- Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Frankenstein, which is a whole world rather than one run.
- How big is Frankenstein?
- Frankenstein is 128 books across 16 series, 1818–2024.