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series3 books1951

Science fiction, dark in tone, set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
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Start with The Day of the Triffids →

CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Horror and science fiction, dark in tone, about plague and pandemic.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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World War ZSeries

series3 books2006

Zombie horror and horror, about war.

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

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
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Start with Broken Lands →

includes Joe Ledger, Dead of Night (Maberry), Rot & Ruin, Pine Deep, Joe Ledger / Rot and Ruin, The Sam Hunter Case Files

RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

Horror, dark 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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Start with The Rats →

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 →

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