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- The Passage
series3 books2010
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The Passage is a novel series by Justin Cronin. There are three published books in the series. The film rights were acquired by Fox Entertainment Group in 2007 for adaptation into a film trilogy, but after 12 years of development and planning, it was changed to a television series, which premiered in January 2019 and was canceled after the first season.
- Swan Song
Robert R. McCammonstandalone novel1987
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Swan Song is a 1987 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon. Published June 1, 1987, the novel describes the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind. Swan Song won the 1987 Bram Stoker award, tying with Stephen King's Misery.
- Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinsonstandalone novel1998
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Brown Girl in the Ring is a 1998 novel written by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson. The novel contains Afro-Caribbean culture with themes of folklore and magical realism. The novel received critical acclaim, winning the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel. It was shortlisted for numerous other awards, including the Otherwise Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and Crawford Award.
- The Enemy (Charlie Higson)
series7 books2009
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The Enemy opens Charlie Higson's seven-book YA horror series, set in London after a mysterious sickness turns every adult into a voracious, flesh-hungry threat and leaves children to fend for themselves in a city gone feral. Each subsequent book (The Dead, The Fear, The Sacrifice, The Fallen, The Hunted, The End) follows different groups of survivors as the outbreak's scope and cause slowly come into focus. Higson also wrote a short companion book, Geeks vs. Zombies, alongside the main series.
- Zone One
Colson Whiteheadstandalone novel2011
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Zone One is a 2011 novel by American author Colson Whitehead. Blending elements of genre fiction and literary fiction, the novel takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States ravaged by zombies. Whitehead has stated that the novel was partly an attempt to return to his adolescent fascination with horror writer Stephen King and science fiction icon Isaac Asimov.
- Forest of Hands and Teeth
series9 books2009
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Carrie Ryan's debut trilogy is set generations after an apocalypse turned much of humanity into the mindless, cannibalistic "Unconsecrated," following young women in a small walled village whose protective fence keeps the undead out and its residents locked into a repressive, secretive society. The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators. It is YA horror more concerned with the fear and control inside the fences than with survivalist action.
- The Long Walk
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1979
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The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot follows the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight years before his first published novel, Carrie, was released in 1974.
- The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908
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The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions.
- The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stokerstandalone novel1911
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A huge snake or dragon from prehistoric times survives in England, with intelligence and the ability to transform into a lady.
- Spider Legs
Piers Anthony & Clifford A. Pickoverstandalone novel1998
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SpiderLegs tells us for thousands of years, mankind has simultaneously trusted in the sea's provibial generosity, and used it as a dumping ground, trusting that in its vastness his garbage will be swallowed up and forgotten. But that was never really true, and now, in an age when the overcrowded Earth swarms with hungry inhabitants whose waste chokes with even the sea, whose greedy demands overtax its seemingly endless bounty, strange things are born in the ocean's deeps-strange things that the ocean throws back upon the land.
- The Vampire Chronicles
series15 books1976
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The Vampire Chronicles is a series of Gothic vampire novels and a media franchise, created by American author Anne Rice, that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century.
- The Season of Passage
Christopher Pikestandalone novel1992
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Dr. Lauren Wagner was a celebrity. She was involved with the most exciting adventure mankind had ever undertaken. The whole world admired and respected her. But Lauren knew fear. Inside--voices entreating her to love them. Outside--the mystery of the missing group that had gone before her. The dead group. But were they simply dead? Or something else? A terrifying novel of horror--and, surprisingly, of salvation--from one of America's bestselling writers. A novel you won't forget.
- The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1959
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The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been made into two feature films, a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series.
- Ice and Iron
Wilson Tuckerstandalone novel1974
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Publisher's description: Fisher Yann Highsmith is a scientist stationed, with a few colleagues, on the edge of an ice field, recording its relentless growth and the destruction of life in its path. In the midst of this frozen and abandoned landscape the team recovers a weird assortment of artifacts that seem to appear out of thin air, and Highsmith fits them together into a fantastic theory of another dimension. Then the search parties begin to find bodies out of time and place and Highsmith's history of parallel worlds becomes a chilling reality.
- Death's Dominion
Simon Clarkstandalone novel2006
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Today science raises the dead to serve the living, but humanity begins to despise the risen dead who toil among them. After all, what does it feel like to shake hands with a corpse? Or converse with a man who died last year? Humankind vows to destroy every last one of its 'monsters'. Soldiers and civilians alike destroy these gentle creatures in a terrifying killing spree. The monsters can't fight back, it's not in their nature, and when caught they must submit to their destruction. Until one of them retaliates against humanity with shocking brutality. Doctor Paul Marais will discover that Dominion is far more than just a killing machine. In this domain, death isn't always the victor.
- Hell Followed with Us
Andrew Joseph Whitestandalone novel2022
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Hell Followed With Us is a 2022 dystopian fantasy horror young adult novel by American author Andrew Joseph White. The book was White’s first published novel.
- The Gospel of Z
Stephen Graham Jonesstandalone novel2014
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"In the ten years since zombies killed the world, Jory Gray has found exactly one person who matters. Her name is Linse. But when he wakes to find her gone, to join the church, his world falls apart all over again. Jory's suicide mission to save her will lead him deep into the restricted zone, into the bowels of the military, the underbelly of the church, and, worse, it will give him a glimpse into a past that's supposed to be ten years dead, a past still contained in a document that never should have existed: The Gospel of Z"--Page 4 of cover.
