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Books like Horror in Small Towns: 9 series to read next

Horror in Small Towns is horror, set in contemporary and our world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Horror in Small Towns is 5 books, 2020–2022.

“The town of Woodberry seems perfect at first glance but, this quickly changes when he starts asking about the radio tower perched on top of the highest hill in the town.”
from the catalogue description of Radio Tower

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Jerusalem's Lot
The Shining
Desperation/Regulators
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
The Indian Lake Trilogy
Goosebumps
Castle Rock
Exorcist
Rats

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

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 →

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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Horror, tense and dark in tone, about survival and madness, set in contemporary and 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 →

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 Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

Horror, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and small town.

“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 →

GoosebumpsUniverse

universe234 books1992

“Each book is its own self-contained nightmare, narrated by an ordinary boy or girl whose ordinary street has quietly turned against them — and every one snaps shut on a twist that pulls the rug out one last time before the lights come up.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Revenge of the Living Dummy →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Horror, set in contemporary and small town.

“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 →

ExorcistSeries

seriesWilliam Peter Blatty & Steven Piziks6 books1971

About demons.

“Other Exorcist books are tie-in and franchise material rather than further novels by Blatty himself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Exorcist →

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 Horror in Small Towns?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Horror in Small Towns on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Horror in Small Towns?: Radio Tower. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Horror in Small Towns.
How big is Horror in Small Towns?: Horror in Small Towns is 5 books, 2020–2022.

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