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Books like Slugs: 9 series to read next

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

Slugs is 2 books, 1982–1985.

“Shaun Hutson is a British novelist in the horror and crime genres.”
from the catalogue description

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Jerusalem's Lot
Rats
The Strain
World War Z
The Andromeda Strain
The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
Peeps
Desperation/Regulators
They Thirst

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in small town and 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 →

RatsSeries

seriesJames Herbert4 books1974

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and british isles.

“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 StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires, set in north america.

“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 →

World War ZSeries

seriesMax Brooks3 books2006

Zombie horror and post-apocalyptic, about war.

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

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Science fiction.

“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 →

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

Post-apocalyptic and zombie horror, about coming of age.

“The Enemy opens Charlie Higson's seven-book YA horror series, set in London after a mysterious sickness turns every adult into a voracious, flesh-hungry threat and leaves children to fend for themselves in a city gone feral.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Enemy →

PeepsSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld2 books2005

Science fiction, set in north america.

“The apocalyptic threat to the world that begins in Peeps continues in The Last Days, which features some of the same characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Peeps →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness, set in north america and small town.

“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 →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About vampires, set in north america.

“In Robert R. McCammon's They Thirst, an ancient vampire prince arrives in Los Angeles and, in a matter of nights, begins turning the city into a stronghold for the undead, with Disneyland as an eerie staging ground for his conquest.”
from the catalogue description

Start with They Thirst →

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 Slugs?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Slugs on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Slugs?: Slugs. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Slugs.
How big is Slugs?: Slugs is 2 books, 1982–1985.

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