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Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic, set in our world.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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Stephen Kingstandalone novel2009

Science fiction, tense in tone, about political intrigue, set in small town.

“A small town in Maine finds itself suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impenetrable barrier, and the clash of personalities of the trapped people takes its inexorable devastating course.”
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MiseryNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987

Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller, tense in tone, about addiction.

“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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I Am LegendNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

About vampires and last of their kind, set in our world and 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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Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

series2 books1996

Tense in tone, about madness, set in small town.

“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
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Jerusalem's LotSeries

series3 books1975

Tense in tone, about vampires, set in small town and our world.

“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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