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Books like Horror Lurks Beneath: 9 series to read next

Horror Lurks Beneath is horror, about survival, set in contemporary, eerie and tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Horror Lurks Beneath is 3 books, 2021–2022.

“A tech billionaire wants the building's secrets for herself.”
from the catalogue description of It Waits on the Top Floor

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Jerusalem's Lot
Rats
Small Spaces
Desperation/Regulators
The Strain
The Andromeda Strain
Goosebumps
They Thirst
The Indian Lake Trilogy

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Dark in tone, about vampires and grief and loss, set in north america.

“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

Dark in tone, 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 →

Small SpacesSeries

seriesKatherine Arden4 books2018

Start with Small Spaces →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Dark in tone, about madness, set in north america.

“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 →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

Dark in tone, about vampires and plague and pandemic, set in north america.

“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 →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Science fiction, about plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

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 →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

Dark in tone, about vampires, set in north america.

“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

Dark in tone, set in 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 →

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 Lurks Beneath?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Horror Lurks Beneath on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Horror Lurks Beneath?: It Waits on the Top Floor. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Horror Lurks Beneath.
How big is Horror Lurks Beneath?: Horror Lurks Beneath is 3 books, 2021–2022.

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