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series3 books1975

Dark and tense in tone, set in small town and north america.

“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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The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Gothic, dark in tone, about immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
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Start with Interview with the Vampire →

DraculaUniverse

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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includes Dracula Sequence, The Return of Dracula, Dracula's Children, Theological College of St. Van Helsing, Dracula Adaptations, Quincey Morris (Dracula spin-off)

The ShiningSeries

series5 books1977

Dark and tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in north america.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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NecroscopeSeries

series26 books1982

completed

Dark and tense in tone, about undead.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
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Hunger (Whitley Strieber)Series

series3 books1981

Dark in tone.

“Whitley Strieber's The Hunger centers on Miriam Blaylock, a beautiful, wealthy vampire who takes human lovers and transforms them into vampire-human hybrids, feeding off them across centuries.”
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