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Books like Newport Curse: 9 series to read next

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

Newport Curse is 3 books, 2022–2026.

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The Shining
Johnny Dixon and the Professor
Talisman
Jerusalem's Lot
Rosemary Reilly
The Mayfair Witches Saga
Exorcist
Bruce Coville's Chamber of Horror / Spirit World
Castle Rock

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

Tense in tone, 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 →

Johnny Dixon and the ProfessorSeries

seriesJohn Bellairs & Brad Strickland13 books1983

Gothic.

“In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine →

TalismanSeries

seriesStephen King, Peter Straub & Robin Furth4 books1984

Fantasy and portal fantasy.

“Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman follows twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer as he crosses between our world and the Territories, a parallel realm, on a cross-country quest to save his dying mother.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Talisman →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Tense in tone, 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 →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

Tense in tone, about parenthood, set in big city.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rosemary's Baby →

The Mayfair Witches SagaSeries

seriesAnne Rice3 books1990

Gothic and fantasy, about witches and family secrets.

Start with The Witching Hour →

ExorcistSeries

seriesWilliam Peter Blatty & Steven Piziks6 books1971

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

“Other Exorcist books are tie-in and franchise material rather than further novels by Blatty himself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Exorcist →

Bruce Coville's Chamber of Horror / Spirit WorldSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1983

Set in contemporary and our world.

“Faced with an ancient curse, a tragic demon, and a blood feud thousands of years old, Marilyn must make the right decision—or die.”
from the catalogue description of Amulet of Doom

Start with Amulet of Doom →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Horror, set in contemporary and north america.

“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 →

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 Newport Curse?: The Shining — the closest match to Newport Curse on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Newport Curse?: The Cursed Among Us. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Newport Curse.
How big is Newport Curse?: Newport Curse is 3 books, 2022–2026.

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