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Dan Simmonsstandalone novel1989

Science fiction and psychological horror, about psychic powers, set in north america.

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

Post-apocalyptic, about vampires and survival.

“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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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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FleshNovel

Richard Laymonstandalone novel1987

Splatterpunk, tense in tone, about survival, set in small town.

“No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth.”
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The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Gothic, about vampires and immortality, set in contemporary.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
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DecemberNovel

Phil Rickmanstandalone novel1994

Gothic and ghost stories, about curses and music.

“In the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood.”
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