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series3 books1975

Tense in tone, about vampires, set in small town and our world.

“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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Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

series4 books1989

Psychological thriller, tense in tone.

“The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.”
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FirestarterNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1980

Science fiction and thriller & suspense, tense in tone, about psychic powers.

“WorldCat: Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror...”
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The Andromeda StrainSeries

series2 books1969

Science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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MiseryNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987

Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller, tense in tone, about addiction.

“Novelist Paul Sheldon finishes the manuscript that will finally kill off Misery Chastain, the heroine who made his career, when a snowstorm sends his car off a Colorado road.”
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PymSeries

series5 books1838

Adventure, about expeditions, set in arctic & antarctica and 19th century.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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