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Anita BlakeSeries
series42 books1993
Urban fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about vampires, set in contemporary and north america.
“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
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Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
Eerie in tone, about grief and loss, 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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I Am LegendNovel
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954
Post-apocalyptic, about survival and last of their kind, set in mid 20th century.
“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
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The ShiningSeries
series5 books1977
About addiction.
“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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The Dresden FilesSeries
series56 books2000
About wizards, set in big city.
“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
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HideawayNovel
Dean R. Koontzstandalone novel1992
Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller.
“After being resuscitated from clinical death, a man finds himself telepathically linked with a psychopathic serial murderer who has also been resuscitated from clinical death; and the psychopath decides to target the man and his family.”
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