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Books like Frankenstein Abridgements: 9 series to read next

Frankenstein Abridgements is horror, set in 19th century and europe. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Frankenstein Abridgements is 8 books, 1882–2010.

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Melmoth
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Seasons of Horror
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Castle Rock
Dream Cycle

MelmothSeries

seriesCharles Maturin & Honoré de Balzac9 books1820

About deal with the devil and immortality.

Start with Melmoth the Wanderer →

FrankensteinUniverse

universe128 books1818

Horror.

“Light a candle against the November dark and consider what a single spark, rightly applied to dead matter, might wake.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus →

DraculaUniverse

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 Invisible ManSeries

seriesH. G. Wells, Malvina G. Vogel & T. S. Gregory6 books1897

Set in british isles.

“The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Invisible in London →

The Island of Dr. MoreauSeries

seriesMegan Shepherd, H. G. Wells, Brad Linaweaver, Brian W. Aldiss, Fred Olen Ray, Heather O'Neill, Jonathan Maberry, Robert Hoskins, Ron Goulart & Silvia Moreno-Garcia12 books1896

Science fiction, set in 19th century.

“Taken together, the group traces one unsettling premise across more than a century of speculative fiction rather than forming a single ongoing story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Island of Dr. Moreau →

Seasons of HorrorSeries

seriesDan Simmons7 books1990

Set in north america.

Start with Summer of Night →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Set in north america and contemporary.

“Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town that links a cluster of otherwise separate Stephen King novels and novellas, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and Elevation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nona →

Dream CycleSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft, C. T. Phipps, E. Hoffmann Price, Jack Chapman Miske, Richard Gavin & W. H. Pugmire26 books1919

Horror, eerie in tone.

Start with The White Ship →

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 Abridgements?: Melmoth — the closest match to Frankenstein Abridgements on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Frankenstein Abridgements?: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (abridged). It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Frankenstein Abridgements.
How big is Frankenstein Abridgements?: Frankenstein Abridgements is 8 books, 1882–2010.

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