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Books like Renfield County: 9 series to read next

Renfield County is horror. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Renfield County is 14 books, 2017–2025.

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Dracula
Jerusalem's Lot
The Shining
Exorcist
The Vampire Chronicles
Frankenstein
Rosemary Reilly
Castle Rock
Coraline

universe144 books1897

Horror.

“Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dracula →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Dark in tone, about vampires, set in contemporary and small town.

“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

Dark and tense in tone, set in north america and contemporary.

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

Start with The Shining →

ExorcistSeries

seriesWilliam Peter Blatty & Steven Piziks6 books1971

Dark in tone, about demons, set in north america and contemporary.

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

Start with The Exorcist →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

Gothic, dark in tone, about vampires, set in our world.

“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 →

FrankensteinUniverse

universe128 books1818

Horror.

“Light a candle against the November dark and consider what a single spark, rightly applied to dead matter, might wake.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

Tense in tone, about demons and parenthood, set in north america.

“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 →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Set in north america and contemporary.

“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 →

CoralineSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Coraline →

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 Renfield County?: Dracula — the closest match to Renfield County on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Renfield County?: Wag. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Renfield County.
How big is Renfield County?: Renfield County is 14 books, 2017–2025.

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