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series3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in small town and north america.

“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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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

The Living DeadSeries

series13 books1974

Zombie horror and horror, set in contemporary.

Start with Night of the Living Dead →

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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Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

World War ZSeries

series3 books2006

Post-apocalyptic, about war and plague and pandemic.

Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →

The LabyrinthUniverse

universe48 books2001

Horror, dark in tone, set in contemporary.

“Here the walls between apocalypses are thin, and the same old hungers press against all of them.”
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Start with The Rising →

includes The Rising (Brian Keene), Earthworm Gods, Lehorn's Hollow, The Lost Level

Dead World (Joe McKinney)Series

series7 books2006

completed

Post-apocalyptic, set in north america.

“In the wake of five cataclysmic hurricanes, a deadly virus breaks out in Texas, returning the dead to life with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.”
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Start with Dead City →

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