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- The Howling
series3 books1977
completed
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The Howling, Gary Brandner's 1977 novel, sets a woman recovering from trauma against a small California town that turns out to be sheltering a colony of werewolves. Brandner wrote two further novels under the same title banner, The Howling II and The Howling III, but by the author's own account they're only loosely connected sequels rather than a continuous story, and neither maps onto the better-known film series the first book inspired.
- Jerusalem's Lot
series3 books1975
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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. It transplants Gothic vampire horror into a small New England community, tracking that community's collapse under a supernatural siege. It is a single, self-contained novel.
- I Am Legend
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954
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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. Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can a man survive like this?
- Flesh
Richard Laymonstandalone novel1987
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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. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh—but what it makes you do to others.
- Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
series4 books1989
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Stephen King set three otherwise separate books on or near the fictional Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine: Gerald's Game, about a woman handcuffed to a bed after her husband's fatal heart attack; Dolores Claiborne, a housekeeper's decades-spanning confession narrated in a single unbroken monologue; and Storm of the Century, a novelization of King's own miniseries about a stranger who arrives during a historic blizzard demanding a terrible price from the town. The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.
- Demonata
series10 books2005
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The Demonata is a young adult horror/fantasy series by author Darren Shan.
- Cell
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006
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In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.
- Stephen King multiverse
universe46 books1967
Start hereThe Gunslinger · Start here
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So begins the long walk of Roland Deschain, last of an order of knight-errant pistoleers, across a land that has "moved on" — where the compass points drift, dead machines rot toward sentience, and the weave of what's real wears thin. His quest is the Dark Tower itself: a spire standing at the hub of every world that exists, the linchpin that holds all of them back from ruin. Roland's road runs eight volumes, from The Gunslinger through the closing Dark Tower, with the later, interleaved tale The Wind Through the Keyhole folding a story-within-a-story back into his youth. Along the way he draws a ka-tet — a fellowship bound by fate, not choosing — through doorways between worlds: a heroin-shackled New Yorker, a woman of two minds, a boy who dies twice. The Tower is also the secret axle around which the wider shelf of King's work turns; threads from The Stand, 'Salem's Lot and beyond wind quietly toward it. Expect a mongrel of Western, high fantasy, horror and decayed science fiction, told in a dusty, incantatory dialect all its own — ka, thankee-sai, the world that has moved on. This is King at his most mythic and most personal, a decades-spanning circle that rewards a patient reader. Begin at the beginning: The Gunslinger, then walk forward in publication order. There are other worlds than these — but this door opens first.
- Point Horror
series41 books1986
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Point Horror is a series of young adult horror fiction books. The series was most popular among teenagers.
- Castle Rock
series16 books1978
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Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town that links a cluster of otherwise separate Stephen King novels and novellas, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and Elevation. Rather than telling one continuous story, the books share a setting and occasional recurring figures, such as Sheriff Alan Pangborn, while each follows its own self-contained plot and cast. Any title can be read on its own without needing the others.
- Rats
series4 books1974
completed
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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. It was followed by two sequels, Lair and Domain, which widen the outbreak first to the countryside and then to a besieged, apocalyptic city, completing a three-book trilogy.
- The Fog
James Herbertstandalone novel1975
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The Fog is a horror novel by English writer James Herbert, published in 1975. It is about a deadly fog that drives its victims insane when they come into contact with it.
- The Omen
series5 books1976
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The Omen book series novelizes and continues the 1976-1981 horror film franchise about Damien Thorn, the secretly substituted child revealed to be the Antichrist. David Seltzer's tie-in novel adapted the original film, and Joseph Howard and Gordon McGill carried the story forward across further volumes (Damien: Omen II, The Final Conflict, and later original sequels), following Damien's rise to power and the escalating attempts to stop him.
- Carrion Comfort
Dan Simmonsstandalone novel1989
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Carrion Comfort is a science fiction/horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1989 in hardcover by Dark Harvest and in 1990 in paperback by Warner Books. It won the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Poll Award for Best Horror Novel, and the August Derleth Award for Best Novel. It is based on a novelette of the same title, published in 1983 in the magazine Omni. The first half of the novelette makes up chapter 1 of the novel, while the second half forms chapter 3.
- The Shining
series5 books1977
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Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining follows the Torrance family as winter caretakers of the isolated, malevolent Overlook Hotel, where father Jack is gradually consumed by the hotel's influence while his young son Danny's psychic "shining" draws its attention. Doctor Sleep (2013) picks up the story decades later, following Danny as an adult still marked by that childhood ordeal. Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.
- Fear Street
universe163 books1989
Start hereThe New Girl · Start here
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Every town has the one street kids dare each other to walk after dark. In Shadyside, it's Fear Street: a shaded lane that dead-ends at the burned bones of the Fear family mansion, where the woods swallow sound and the past never quite stays buried. The name is a warning nobody heeds. A new girl who's too pretty to trust. A locker that won't stay shut. A prom date who isn't who he says. Somebody in Shadyside always ends up dead, and it's usually a teenager who was sure the rumors were only rumors. R. L. Stine built this world one paperback at a time, and it sprawls the way a rumor does. The core novels are lean standalone thrillers; the longer Super Chillers turn the screws harder; themed runs circle the same doomed graduating class from new angles — the Cheerleaders trilogy, the haunted-house horror of 99 Fear Street, the killer carnival of Fear Park, the year-long Fear Street Seniors. Ghosts of Fear Street pitches the scares to a younger shelf, and later Return to Fear Street reopens the street for a new decade. Beneath all of it lie the Fear Street Sagas, which dig down to the root: a centuries-old feud, a family once spelled Fier, and a curse of blood and fire that poisoned the ground to begin with. What binds it isn't continuity but appetite: clean, breathless suspense that trusts a teenager to want the fright. The books stand alone, so publication order serves fine. Open with The New Girl, where it starts, and save the Sagas for when you need to know why the whole street is cursed.
