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Books like The Howling: 9 series to read next

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

The Howling is 3 books, 1977–1985.

“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

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Jerusalem's Lot
The Shining
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
Desperation/Regulators
Rats
Cheyenne Clark / Frostbite
The Indian Lake Trilogy
The Wolf Gift Chronicles
The Strain

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, 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 →

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 →

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 →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About madness.

“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 →

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 →

Cheyenne Clark / FrostbiteSeries

seriesDavid Wellington2 books2009

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

“For Cheyenne Clark, there's a bad moon on the rise . . .There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl.”
from the catalogue description of Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale

Start with Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale →

The Indian Lake TrilogySeries

seriesStephen Graham Jones3 books2021

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

“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 →

The Wolf Gift ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice2 books2012

Eerie in tone.

“Anne Rice's Wolf Gift Chronicles follows Reuben Golding, a San Francisco journalist who becomes a werewolf after a violent attack and must evade police and forensic investigators while learning to control his new nature.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Wolf Gift →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires and plague and pandemic.

“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 →

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 The Howling?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to The Howling on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Howling?: The Howling. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Howling.
How big is The Howling?: The Howling is 3 books, 1977–1985.
Is The Howling finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1977–1985.

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