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Books like Jerusalem's Lot: 9 series to read next

Jerusalem's Lot is horror, about vampires and grief and loss, set in contemporary, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Jerusalem's Lot is 3 books, 1975–2005.

“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.”
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The Shining
The Strain
They Thirst
Desperation/Regulators
The Vampire Chronicles
Necroscope
The Indian Lake Trilogy
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
The Mayfair Witches Saga

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 →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About plague and pandemic.

“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 →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

Set in big city.

“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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness.

“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 Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

About immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue description of Interview with the Vampire
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Start with Interview with the Vampire →

NecroscopeSeries

seriesBrian Lumley26 books1982

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about vampires and undead, set in contemporary.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Necroscope →

The Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

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

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 Mayfair Witches SagaSeries

seriesAnne Rice3 books1990

Fantasy and dark fantasy, about family secrets.

Start with The Witching Hour →

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 Jerusalem's Lot?: The Shining — the closest match to Jerusalem's Lot on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Jerusalem's Lot?: 'Salem's Lot. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Jerusalem's Lot.
How big is Jerusalem's Lot?: Jerusalem's Lot is 3 books, 1975–2005.

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