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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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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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World War ZSeries

series3 books2006

Post-apocalyptic, about war and plague and pandemic.

Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →

RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

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 Living DeadSeries

series13 books1974

Zombie horror and horror, set in contemporary.

Start with Night of the Living Dead →

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