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Legion (Kami Garcia)Series
series2 books2013
Tense in tone.
Start with Unbreakable →
The ShiningSeries
series5 books1977
Horror, dark and tense in tone, set in north america.
“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Shining →
Rosemary ReillySeries
series2 books1967
completed
Horror, tense in tone, about parenthood, set in north america.
“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
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Start with Rosemary's Baby →
Sign of Seven TrilogySeries
series3 books2007
Romance, about curses, set in small town.
“Nora Roberts' Sign of Seven trilogy centers on Hawkins Hollow, a small town cursed after three boys — Caleb, Fox and Gage — accidentally released a destructive force by spilling their blood at an ancient stone called the Pagan Stone.”
from the catalogue
Start with Blood Brothers →
MirrorNovel
Graham Mastertonstandalone novel1988
Horror and dark fantasy, dark in tone, set in north america.
“The antique mirror witnesses the gruesome murder of an eight-year-old child-star on the cusp of fame.”
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OkikuSeries
series2 books2014
Horror, dark in tone, set in east asia.
“Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers, until she meets Tark, who needs to be freed from demonic malevolence.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Girl from the Well →