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Books like The Ultimate: 9 series to read next

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

The Ultimate is 8 books, 1991–1995.

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Jerusalem's Lot
Bruce Coville's Book of ...
The Vampire Chronicles
Bod Owens
100 Stories / Barnes & Noble
The Golden Age of Weird Fiction Megapack
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Shock
Necroscope

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Tense in tone, set in small town and north america.

“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 →

Bruce Coville's Book of ...Series

seriesBruce Coville & Lisa Meltzer12 books1993

Start with Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

seriesAnne Rice15 books1976

Gothic, about immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
from the catalogue description of Interview with the Vampire
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Interview with the Vampire →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, about coming of age, set in british isles.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

100 Stories / Barnes & NobleSeries

seriesMartin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Al Sarrantonio, Isaac Asimov & Joseph D. Olander17 books1981

Horror, set in our world.

“Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood.”
from the catalogue description of 100 Malicious Little Mysteries

Start with 100 Malicious Little Mysteries →

The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MegapackSeries

seriesFrank Belknap Long, Manly Banister, Henry S. Whitehead, Clark Ashton Smith, David H. Keller, M.D., Emil Petaja, George T. Wetzel & Nictzin Dyalhis13 books1931

Weird fiction.

Start with The Golden Age of Weird Fiction Megapack: Volume 1 →

The Year's Best Fantasy and HorrorSeries

seriesEllen Datlow, Terri Windling, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link, A. S. Byatt, Jim Aikin, John Brunner, Jonathan Carroll & Peter Straub26 books1988

Horror and fantasy, eerie in tone, set in contemporary.

“The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror was a reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press from 1988 to 2007.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection →

ShockSeries

seriesRichard Matheson4 books1961

Tense in tone.

Start with Shock! →

NecroscopeSeries

seriesBrian Lumley26 books1982

Tense in tone.

“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 →

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 Ultimate?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to The Ultimate on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Ultimate?: The Ultimate Dracula. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Ultimate.
How big is The Ultimate?: The Ultimate is 8 books, 1991–1995.

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