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Books like The Omen: 9 series to read next

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

The Omen is 5 books, 1976–1985.

“The Omen book series novelizes and continues the 1976-1981 horror film franchise about Damien Thorn, the secretly substituted child revealed to be the Antichrist.”
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Rosemary Reilly
Jerusalem's Lot
The Shining
Hellraiser
Exorcist
The Howling
Robert Bloch's Psycho Universe
Necroscope
Seasons of Horror

Rosemary ReillySeries

seriesIra Levin2 books1967

About parenthood, set in big city.

“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

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 →

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.”
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Start with The Shining →

HellraiserSeries

seriesClive Barker, Mark Alan Miller, Paul Kane & Peter Atkins5 books1991

Dark fantasy.

“Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart introduces the puzzle box that summons the Cenobites and the domestic horror story around it, later adapted into the Hellraiser film series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Hellbound Heart →

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.”
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Start with The Exorcist →

The HowlingSeries

seriesGary Brandner3 books1977

About werewolves.

“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

Start with The Howling →

Robert Bloch's Psycho UniverseSeries

seriesRobert Bloch, Chet Williamson & Killian H. Gore5 books1959

Psychological horror, about madness.

Start with Room is Perfect →

NecroscopeSeries

seriesBrian Lumley26 books1982

About vampires and undead.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Necroscope →

Seasons of HorrorSeries

seriesDan Simmons7 books1990

Horror, eerie in tone, set in north america.

Start with Summer of Night →

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 Omen?: Rosemary Reilly — the closest match to The Omen on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Omen?: The Omen. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Omen.
How big is The Omen?: The Omen is 5 books, 1976–1985.

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