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Hell HouseNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1971

Dark and tense in tone, about madness.

“Richard Matheson's haunted-house novel, later filmed as The Legend of Hell House.”
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Pet SemataryNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1983

Dark in tone, about grief and loss and curses.

Jerusalem's LotSeries

series3 books1975

Dark and tense in tone, about vampires, set in our world.

“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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Comes the Blind FuryNovel

John Saulstandalone novel1980

About curses.

“WorldCat: When Michelle comes to visit on Paradise Point, she sees the hand of a blind girl who died a century ago, reaching out to her from the swirling mists.”
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Lisey's StoryNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Psychological horror, emotional in tone, about grief and loss, set in parallel universe.

“When the widow of a successful author is targeted by a psychopath, she must make use of the ability to shift to a parallel world, which she learned from her husband.”
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If You Could See Me NowNovel

Peter Straubstandalone novel1976

Gothic, dark in tone, about grief and loss, set in our world.

“Coward, McCann & Geoghegan published an American edition also in June 1977.”
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