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series3 books1975

Eerie 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, about plague and pandemic.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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The Andromeda StrainSeries

series2 books1969

Science fiction, about plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

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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Beast House ChroniclesSeries

series4 books1980

completed

Horror and splatterpunk, tense and dark in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.

“Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost.”
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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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