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Books like Scary Tales: 9 series to read next

Scary Tales is horror, set in our world and contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Scary Tales is 7 books, 2013–2024.

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Jerusalem's Lot
Goosebumps
Southern Reach Trilogy
World War Z
Small Spaces
Shadow House
Bone Chillers
Rats
The Andromeda Strain

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in 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 →

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, about madness.

“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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Annihilation →

World War ZSeries

seriesMax Brooks3 books2006

Post-apocalyptic, about war and plague and pandemic.

Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →

Small SpacesSeries

seriesKatherine Arden4 books2018

Horror and ghost stories, tense and eerie in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

Start with Small Spaces →

Shadow HouseSeries

seriesDan Poblocki4 books2016

Horror and ghost stories, set in contemporary and our world.

“Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they're hungry.”
from the catalogue description of The Gathering

Start with The Gathering →

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 →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Set in british isles and 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 →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Science fiction, about plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

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 Scary Tales?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Scary Tales on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Scary Tales?: Home Sweet Horror. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Scary Tales.
How big is Scary Tales?: Scary Tales is 7 books, 2013–2024.

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