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Undead Worlds AnthologiesSeries
series3 books2017
Set in contemporary.
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SoullessNovel
Christopher Goldenstandalone novel2008
Set in contemporary and north america.
“The attempt of three powerful mediums to open up communication between the living and the dead has disastrous consequences when every corpse within a three-hundred-mile radius of New York City is animated and begins to prey on the living.”
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The Library at HelleboreNovel
Cassandra Khawstandalone novel2025
Dark fantasy, about magic schools and psychic powers.
“The faculty attacks the students, who seek shelter in the school's library in a bid for survival.”
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MalazanUniverse
universe36 books1999
Epic fantasy, about war.
“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, Night of Knives, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy
Forest of Hands and TeethSeries
series9 books2009
Post-apocalyptic, set in near future.
“The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”
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Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
About vampires, set in contemporary and 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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