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Books like Pontypool: 9 series to read next

Pontypool is horror and zombie horror, about plague and pandemic, set in north america, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Pontypool is 2 books, 1998–2016.

“A strange contagious diseases strikes a small town in Ontario; spread by conversing with an infected person, it first turns the victims' language into gibberish, then turns them violent.”
from the catalogue description of Pontypool Changes Everything

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Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
Desperation/Regulators
The Shining
Robert Bloch's Psycho Universe
Jerusalem's Lot
The Strain
The Passage
Jaws
The Howling

Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

seriesStephen King4 books1989

Psychological thriller, set in contemporary.

“The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Home Delivery →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Set in contemporary.

“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 →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About psychic powers and addiction, set in contemporary.

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

Start with The Shining →

Robert Bloch's Psycho UniverseSeries

seriesRobert Bloch, Chet Williamson & Killian H. Gore5 books1959

Psychological horror.

Start with Room is Perfect →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in contemporary and our world.

“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 StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires, set in contemporary.

“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 →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, about vampires, set in near future.

Start with The Passage →

JawsSeries

seriesHank Searls & Peter Benchley3 books1974

Thriller & suspense, about monster hunting.

“Doubleday commissioned Benchley to write the novel in 1971, a period when the writer worked as a freelance journalist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Jaws →

The HowlingSeries

seriesGary Brandner3 books1977

About werewolves, set in our world and contemporary.

“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 →

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 Pontypool?: Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse — the closest match to Pontypool on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Pontypool?: Pontypool Changes Everything. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Pontypool.
How big is Pontypool?: Pontypool is 2 books, 1998–2016.

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