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Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987

Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller, tense in tone.

“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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Jerusalem's LotSeries

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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The Andromeda StrainSeries

series2 books1969

Science fiction, tense in tone, 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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The ShiningSeries

series5 books1977

Tense in tone, about psychic powers.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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includes The Dark Tower

Davey OwenSeries

series2 books1987

completed

About vampires, set in big city.

“Live Girls is Ray Garton's best-known novel, a horror title that earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination among the roughly 68 books he wrote across a long horror-fiction career.”
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