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Books like The Labyrinth: 9 series to read next

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

The Labyrinth is 48 books across 5 series, 2001–2024.

“Here the walls between apocalypses are thin, and the same old hungers press against all of them.”
from the catalogue description

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Jerusalem's Lot
Desperation/Regulators
Zom-B
Monster Island
The Strain
The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
Rats
The Living Dead (Albemont)
The Passage

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 →

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

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Zom-BSeries

seriesDarren Shan12 books2012

About race and racism.

“B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors of high school, making allegiances with anyone with enough gall to fight off their pursuers.”
from the catalogue description
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Monster IslandSeries

seriesDavid Wellington3 books2006

Horror and zombie horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

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The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About vampires.

“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 →

The Enemy (Charlie Higson)Series

seriesCharlie Higson7 books2009

About coming of age, set in british isles and big city.

“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 →

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 Living Dead (Albemont)Series

seriesL. I. Albemont3 books2012

Horror and zombie horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

“Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected.”
from the catalogue description of Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead

Start with Contagion: A Novel of The Living Dead →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

About vampires.

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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 The Labyrinth?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to The Labyrinth on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is The Labyrinth?: The Labyrinth is 48 books across 5 series, 2001–2024.

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