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Books like Necroscope: 9 series to read next

Necroscope is horror, about vampires and undead, set in contemporary, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Necroscope is 26 books, 1982–2017.

“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

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Jerusalem's Lot
The Shining
The Vampire Chronicles
Love in Vein
Blood Opera
The Strain
They Thirst
Rats
Demonata

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Set in small town and 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 →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About addiction, set in north america.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Shining →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

Gothic, 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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Interview with the Vampire →

Love in VeinSeries

seriesPoppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg2 books1994

Emotional in tone, about forbidden love.

“Twenty stories of vampiric erotica, or more precisely depravity with sex prominently featured.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Love in Vein →

Blood OperaSeries

seriesTanith Lee3 books1992

Fantasy, about family secrets.

Start with Dark Dance →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About survival 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 →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About survival, set in north america and 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 →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

About survival, set in 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 →

DemonataSeries

seriesDarren Shan10 books2005

About demons.

“Lord Loss is an extreme horror fiction which transcribes the encounters of a boy, Grubbs Grady, after the shock of his family's brutal murder at the hands of demons, and his later experiences with uncle Dervish.”
from the catalogue description of Lord Loss
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Lord Loss →

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 Necroscope?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Necroscope on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Necroscope?: Necroscope. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Necroscope.
How big is Necroscope?: Necroscope is 26 books, 1982–2017.
Is Necroscope finished?: Yes — 26 books, 1982–2017.

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