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Books like The Jake Helman Files: 9 series to read next

The Jake Helman Files is horror, about demons, set in contemporary and north america, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Jake Helman Files is 6 books, 2008–2015.

“Jake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreads—an elusive serial killer.”
from the catalogue description of Personal Demons

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The Shining
Exorcist
Rosemary Reilly
Jerusalem's Lot
Anita Blake
Desperation/Regulators
Felix Castor
The Jeremiah Hunt Chronicles
They Thirst

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

Horror, tense and dark in tone, about addiction and psychic powers, set in contemporary and north america.

“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

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

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

Start with The Exorcist →

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

About parenthood.

“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 →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about vampires and grief and loss, set in 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 →

Anita BlakeSeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green42 books1993

About vampires.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Guilty Pleasures →

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

seriesStephen King2 books1996

About survival and madness, set in 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 →

Felix CastorSeries

seriesMike Carey7 books2006

Set in british isles.

“Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels follow a freelance exorcist working London's supernatural underside, taking paying jobs to banish ghosts and bind demons in a city where the dead don't always stay quiet.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Devil You Know →

The Jeremiah Hunt ChroniclesSeries

seriesJoseph Nassise3 books2011

Urban fantasy, tense and dark in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“Desperate to reclaim what he has lost, Hunt finally turns to the supernatural for justice.”
from the catalogue description of Eyes to See

Start with Eyes to See →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About vampires and survival.

“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 The Jake Helman Files?: The Shining — the closest match to The Jake Helman Files on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Jake Helman Files?: Personal Demons. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Jake Helman Files.
How big is The Jake Helman Files?: The Jake Helman Files is 6 books, 2008–2015.

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