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The ShiningSeries
series5 books1977
About psychic powers and addiction.
“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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CarrieNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1974
About psychic powers and revenge, set in late 20th century.
In the Night RoomNovel
Peter Straubstandalone novel2004
About grief and loss.
Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
Eerie in tone, about vampires and grief and loss.
“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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Desperation/RegulatorsSeries
series2 books1996
About survival.
“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
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Robert Bloch's Psycho UniverseSeries
series5 books1959
Horror and psychological horror, dark and tense in tone, about madness, set in north america.
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