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series2 books2011

Satire, dark and funny in tone, set in contemporary.

“Chuck Palahniuk's Damned follows Madison Spencer, a sharp-tongued thirteen-year-old who wakes up dead and navigates a bureaucratic, telemarketing-riddled Hell, phoning the living to warn them before she's through.”
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Anna KorlovSeries

series2 books2011

Ghost stories, about forbidden love, set in contemporary.

“Anna Dressed in Blood and its sequel Girl of Nightmares follow Cas as his professional detachment gives way to a bond that complicates everything he thought he knew about his calling.”
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HellraiserSeries

series5 books1991

Dark fantasy, dark in tone, about demons, set in contemporary.

“Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart introduces the puzzle box that summons the Cenobites and the domestic horror story around it, later adapted into the Hellraiser film series.”
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RevivalNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2014

Cosmic horror, dark in tone, set in north america and contemporary.

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Gothic, dark in tone, about vampires, set in our world.

“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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HideawayNovel

Dean R. Koontzstandalone novel1992

Tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in our world and contemporary.

“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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