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Books like Linkville Horror: 9 series to read next

Linkville Horror is horror, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Linkville Horror is 7 books, 2019–2025.

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Jerusalem's Lot
The Howling
The Shining
Rats
Desperation/Regulators
Beast House Chronicles
The Indian Lake Trilogy
Depraved
The Pines Trilogy

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 HowlingSeries

seriesGary Brandner3 books1977

About werewolves.

“The Howling, Gary Brandner's 1977 novel, sets a woman recovering from trauma against a small California town that turns out to be sheltering a colony of werewolves.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Howling →

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 →

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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Horror, dark and tense 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 →

Beast House ChroniclesSeries

seriesRichard Laymon4 books1980

Splatterpunk.

“Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Cellar →

The Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

Horror, dark and tense 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 →

DepravedSeries

seriesBryan Smith5 books2009

“The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Depraved →

The Pines TrilogySeries

seriesRobert Dunbar3 books1989

Horror, dark in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“The boy seems to have a psychic connection to something in the dark forest, something unseen ... and evil.”
from the catalogue description of The Pines

Start with The Pines →

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 Linkville Horror?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Linkville Horror on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Linkville Horror?: Damned to Hell. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Linkville Horror.
How big is Linkville Horror?: Linkville Horror is 7 books, 2019–2025.

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