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MiseryNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987
Horror and thriller & suspense, 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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The Andromeda StrainSeries
series2 books1969
Science fiction, 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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Start with The Andromeda Strain →
Desperation/RegulatorsSeries
series2 books1996
Horror, about madness, set in small town.
“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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Start with Desperation →
Under the DomeNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2009
Science fiction and horror, about political intrigue, set in small town.
“A small town in Maine finds itself suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impenetrable barrier, and the clash of personalities of the trapped people takes its inexorable devastating course.”
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CellNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006
Post-apocalyptic and horror, set in our world.
“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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The StrainSeries
series3 books2009
Horror, about vampires and plague and pandemic.
“When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK Airport with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather is called in and instead uncovers a vampiric plague beginning to spread through New York City.”
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Start with The Strain →