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Books like Suburban Gothic Universe: 9 series to read next

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

Suburban Gothic Universe is 17 books, 2007–2026.

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Jerusalem's Lot
Desperation/Regulators
The Indian Lake Trilogy
Beast House Chronicles
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
The Shining
Shock
Castle Rock
The Andromeda Strain

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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival and madness, set in contemporary 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 →

The Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and small town.

“Don't Fear the Reaper and The Angel of Indian Lake complete the trilogy's three-book arc, published through 2024.”
from the catalogue description

Start with My Heart Is a Chainsaw →

Beast House ChroniclesSeries

seriesRichard Laymon4 books1980

Horror and splatterpunk, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.

“Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Cellar →

Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

seriesStephen King4 books1989

Psychological thriller.

“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 →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About psychic powers and 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! →

Castle RockSeries

seriesStephen King & Richard Chizmar16 books1978

Horror, set in contemporary and small town.

“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 →

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

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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.

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What should I read after Suburban Gothic Universe?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Suburban Gothic Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Suburban Gothic Universe?: Suburban Gothic Universe is 17 books, 2007–2026.

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