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- The Vampire Chronicles
series15 books1976
completed
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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 Omen
series5 books1976
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The Omen book series novelizes and continues the 1976-1981 horror film franchise about Damien Thorn, the secretly substituted child revealed to be the Antichrist. David Seltzer's tie-in novel adapted the original film, and Joseph Howard and Gordon McGill carried the story forward across further volumes (Damien: Omen II, The Final Conflict, and later original sequels), following Damien's rise to power and the escalating attempts to stop him.
- Carrion Comfort
Dan Simmonsstandalone novel1989
similar byhorrorour worldlate 20th century
Carrion Comfort is a science fiction/horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1989 in hardcover by Dark Harvest and in 1990 in paperback by Warner Books. It won the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Poll Award for Best Horror Novel, and the August Derleth Award for Best Novel. It is based on a novelette of the same title, published in 1983 in the magazine Omni. The first half of the novelette makes up chapter 1 of the novel, while the second half forms chapter 3.
- Books of Blood
series10 books1984
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Books of Blood is a series of six horror fiction anthologies collecting original stories written by English author, playwright, and filmmaker Clive Barker in 1984 and 1985. Known primarily for writing stage plays beforehand, Barker gained a wider audience and fanbase through this anthology series, leading to a successful career as a novelist. Originally presented as six volumes, the anthologies were subsequently re-published in two omnibus editions containing three volumes each. Each volume contains four, five or six stories. The Volume 1–3 omnibus contained a foreword by Barker's fellow Liverpudlian horror writer Ramsey Campbell. Author Stephen King praised Books of Blood, leading to a quote from him appearing on the first US edition of the book: "I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker."
- Our Lady of Darkness
Fritz Leiberstandalone novel1977
similar byhorrorour worldlate 20th century
Our Lady of Darkness (1977) is an urban fantasy novel by American author Fritz Leiber. The novel is distinguished for three elements: the heavily autobiographical elements in the story, the use of Jungian psychology that informs the narrative, and its detailed description of "megapolisomancy", a fictional occult science. It was originally published in shorter form as The Pale Brown Thing.
- The Howling
series3 books1977
completed
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The Howling, Gary Brandner's 1977 novel, sets a woman recovering from trauma against a small California town that turns out to be sheltering a colony of werewolves. Brandner wrote two further novels under the same title banner, The Howling II and The Howling III, but by the author's own account they're only loosely connected sequels rather than a continuous story, and neither maps onto the better-known film series the first book inspired.
- Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
series4 books1989
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Stephen King set three otherwise separate books on or near the fictional Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine: Gerald's Game, about a woman handcuffed to a bed after her husband's fatal heart attack; Dolores Claiborne, a housekeeper's decades-spanning confession narrated in a single unbroken monologue; and Storm of the Century, a novelization of King's own miniseries about a stranger who arrives during a historic blizzard demanding a terrible price from the town. The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.
- Monster Hunter International
series69 books2007
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Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International follows accountant-turned-monster-hunter Owen Zastava Pitt after he's forced to kill his werewolf boss and is recruited into a private company that hunts supernatural threats for government bounty. The series has since expanded with sequels following other members of the company and a shared-world anthology, The Monster Hunters, contributed to by numerous other authors.
- The Shining
series5 books1977
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Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining follows the Torrance family as winter caretakers of the isolated, malevolent Overlook Hotel, where father Jack is gradually consumed by the hotel's influence while his young son Danny's psychic "shining" draws its attention. Doctor Sleep (2013) picks up the story decades later, following Danny as an adult still marked by that childhood ordeal. Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.
- Flesh
Richard Laymonstandalone novel1987
similar byhorrorour worldlate 20th century
No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh—but what it makes you do to others.
- Stephen King multiverse
universe46 books1967
Start hereThe Gunslinger · Start here
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So begins the long walk of Roland Deschain, last of an order of knight-errant pistoleers, across a land that has "moved on" — where the compass points drift, dead machines rot toward sentience, and the weave of what's real wears thin. His quest is the Dark Tower itself: a spire standing at the hub of every world that exists, the linchpin that holds all of them back from ruin. Roland's road runs eight volumes, from The Gunslinger through the closing Dark Tower, with the later, interleaved tale The Wind Through the Keyhole folding a story-within-a-story back into his youth. Along the way he draws a ka-tet — a fellowship bound by fate, not choosing — through doorways between worlds: a heroin-shackled New Yorker, a woman of two minds, a boy who dies twice. The Tower is also the secret axle around which the wider shelf of King's work turns; threads from The Stand, 'Salem's Lot and beyond wind quietly toward it. Expect a mongrel of Western, high fantasy, horror and decayed science fiction, told in a dusty, incantatory dialect all its own — ka, thankee-sai, the world that has moved on. This is King at his most mythic and most personal, a decades-spanning circle that rewards a patient reader. Begin at the beginning: The Gunslinger, then walk forward in publication order. There are other worlds than these — but this door opens first.
- The Revelation
Bentley Littlestandalone novel1990
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The Revelation is horror author Bentley Little's first published novel. It was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best novel by a new author in 1990.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
series4 books1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) is George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future Britain kept under constant surveillance and thought control, following Winston Smith's doomed attempt at a private rebellion against the ruling Party. Sandra Newman's Julia (2023), written with the Orwell estate's authorization, retells the same events from the point of view of Winston's lover Julia, filling in a life and set of motives the original largely left offstage.
- Point Horror
series41 books1986
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Point Horror is a series of young adult horror fiction books. The series was most popular among teenagers.
- Blue Rose (Peter Straub)
series9 books1985
completed
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The Blue Rose novels are only loosely a series: Peter Straub's Koko, Mystery, and The Throat are separate suspense novels connected by recurring characters, a shared Midwestern town, and the shadow of a Vietnam-era program called Blue Rose that haunts several of the men at their centers. Koko follows a group of Vietnam veterans hunting a former comrade turned serial killer decades after the war. The 1985 novella Blue Rose and later story collections explore the same program's darker origins.
- Johnny Dixon and the Professor
series13 books1983
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Johnny Dixon is a fictional American boy featured in a series of twelve children's gothic horror novels, 1983 to 1999, written by John Bellairs or his successor Brad Strickland. In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world. Alternatively, Johnny Dixon is the book series.
- December
Phil Rickmanstandalone novel1994
similar byhorrorour worldlate 20th century
In the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood. On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again... The Abbey's tower house is now a recording studio, and a hot young band called The Philosopher's Stone has gathered to tap into the site's dark history. But no one could predict the powerful forces that rise the night of December 8. The explosive tragedy. The horrifying death. And in the aftermath of that fateful session, the members of the band agree to destroy their tapes... and never meet again. But thirteen years later, the Abbey tapes—known as The Black Album—resurface. And the scattered members of The Philosopher's Stone know that it's time for a reunion. Time to return to that dark December night—for one last performance...
