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Books like Nightmare Room: 9 series to read next

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

Nightmare Room is 15 books, 2000–2001.

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Castle Rock
Jerusalem's Lot
Point Horror
Goosebumps
Southern Reach Trilogy
The Shining
Shock
Bone Chillers
Rosemary Reilly

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 →

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 →

Point HorrorSeries

seriesR. L. Stine, Sinclair Smith, Caroline B. Cooney, Tom B. Stone, A. Finnis, Christopher Pike, Diane Hoh, Linda Cargill, Peter Lerangis, Samantha Lee, A. Bates, Carmen Adams, Lael Littke & T. Pines41 books1986

Horror, tense in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Blind Date →

GoosebumpsUniverse

universe234 books1992

Horror, set in contemporary and our world.

“Each book is its own self-contained nightmare, narrated by an ordinary boy or girl whose ordinary street has quietly turned against them — and every one snaps shut on a twist that pulls the rug out one last time before the lights come up.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Revenge of the Living Dummy →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer4 books2014

Science fiction and weird fiction.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Annihilation →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About addiction.

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

Start with The Shining →

ShockSeries

seriesRichard Matheson4 books1961

Science fiction.

Start with Shock! →

Bone ChillersSeries

seriesBetsy Haynes, David Bergantino, Daniel Ehrenhaft, Gene Hult, Dahlia Kosinski, Elizabeth Winfrey, Michael Burgan, Ryan Chipman & Sherry Shahan23 books1994

Horror, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Beware the Shopping Mall →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

About demons and 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 →

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 Nightmare Room?: Castle Rock — the closest match to Nightmare Room on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Nightmare Room?: Nightmare Room is 15 books, 2000–2001.

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