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series3 books1975

Tense 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.”
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CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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I Am LegendNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

Post-apocalyptic, about vampires and last of their kind, set in mid 20th century.

“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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RatsSeries

series4 books1974

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Tense in tone, 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.”
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The TommyknockersNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987

Science fiction, eerie in tone, about aliens, set in small town.

DreamcatcherNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2001

Science fiction and alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens.

“According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.”
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