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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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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

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 →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
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Start with Broken Lands →

includes Rot & Ruin, Dead of Night (Maberry), Joe Ledger, Pine Deep, The Sam Hunter Case Files, Joe Ledger / Rot and Ruin

RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

Dark in tone, set in british isles and big city.

“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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Start with The Rats →

CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark in tone, about plague and pandemic.

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