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series3 books1975

Dark in tone, about vampires, set in small town and north america.

“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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The ShiningSeries

series5 books1977

Dark and tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in north america.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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DraculaUniverse

universe144 books1897

Horror.

“Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century.”
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includes Dracula Sequence, The Return of Dracula, Dracula's Children, Theological College of St. Van Helsing, Dracula Adaptations

Rosemary ReillySeries

series2 books1967

completed

Tense in tone, about demons and parenthood, set in north america.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
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RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

Dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in british isles.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
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CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Post-apocalyptic, dark and tense in tone, about survival.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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