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series16 books1978

Horror, set in contemporary and north america.

“Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town that links a cluster of otherwise separate Stephen King novels and novellas, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and Elevation.”
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Start with Nona →

TalismanSeries

series4 books1984

Fantasy and portal fantasy.

“Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman follows twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer as he crosses between our world and the Territories, a parallel realm, on a cross-country quest to save his dying mother.”
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Start with The Talisman →

Johnny Dixon and the ProfessorSeries

series13 books1983

Gothic.

“In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world.”
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Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine →

Anthony MondaySeries

series4 books1978

completed

Gothic.

“Anthony and his friends generally overcome evil forces bent on ending the world.”
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Start with The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn →

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

series12 books1973

Fantasy.

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
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Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

Jerusalem's LotSeries

series3 books1975

Dark and tense in tone, about vampires, set in 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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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

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