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Lost Town is 6 books, 2024–2025.

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Stephen King multiverse
Castle Rock
The Andromeda Strain
Whoniverse
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Kairos
The X-Files
Gone
Seasons of Horror

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Horror.

“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 →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

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 →

WhoniverseUniverse

universe2034 books1964

Science fiction.

“Somewhere a blue police box that has no business existing folds a whole world in behind one door, and an old traveller wearing a brand-new face steps out onto a beach, a battlefield, the last warm afternoon of a dying sun.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Timewyrm: Genesys →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Reading order →

The X-FilesUniverse

universe91 books1994

Set in north america.

“Working them are two FBI agents who agree on almost nothing — Fox Mulder, who wants to believe, and Dana Scully, the pathologist sent to debunk him — and a truth that keeps receding the closer they get.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Dark in tone.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

Seasons of HorrorSeries

seriesDan Simmons7 books1990

Horror.

Start with Summer of Night →

Why these

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What should I read after Lost Town?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to Lost Town on what it is about, not on what sells.
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How big is Lost Town?: Lost Town is 6 books, 2024–2025.

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