Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe144 books1897

Horror.

“Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century.”
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Start with Dracula →

includes The Return of Dracula, Dracula Sequence, Dracula Adaptations, Dracula's Children, Theological College of St. Van Helsing

FrankensteinUniverse

universe128 books1818

Horror.

“Light a candle against the November dark and consider what a single spark, rightly applied to dead matter, might wake.”
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Start with Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus →

includes The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Robert J. Myers' Frankenstein, New Adventures of Frankenstein, The Quest of Frankenstein, Frankenstein (Lou Mougin), Jean-Claude Carrière's Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Children, The Frankenstein Journals

Jerusalem's LotSeries

series3 books1975

Horror, dark in tone, about vampires, 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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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The ShiningSeries

series5 books1977

Horror, dark and tense in tone, set in north america.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Start with The Shining →

PymSeries

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Adventure, about expeditions, set in arctic & antarctica and 19th century.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

Johnny Dixon and the ProfessorSeries

series13 books1983

Horror, set in north america.

“In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine →

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