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series3 books1975

Dark in tone, about vampires, set in contemporary and 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.”
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I Am LegendNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

Post-apocalyptic, about vampires and last of their kind, set in our world.

“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
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MiseryNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone, set in north america and contemporary.

“Novelist Paul Sheldon finishes the manuscript that will finally kill off Misery Chastain, the heroine who made his career, when a snowstorm sends his car off a Colorado road.”
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RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

Dark and tense in tone, set in contemporary and british isles.

“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.”
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CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, set in our world and contemporary.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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World War ZSeries

series3 books2006

Zombie horror, about war, set in our world and contemporary.

Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →

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