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series15 books1976

completed

Horror and gothic, dark in tone, about vampires.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
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Start with Interview with the Vampire →

The Midnight WorldSeries

series2 books2020

About second chance and grief and loss.

“In particular, they frequently wonder how different things might have been had they made other choices at pivotal moments in their lives.”
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Start with The Midnight Library →

KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

FlukeNovel

James Herbertstandalone novel1977

Sad in tone, about reincarnation and grief and loss.

“A dog named Fluke is barely more than a puppy when fragments of a life that isn't his own surface in his mind -- memories of a wife, a daughter, a job, an entire human existence he can't reconcile with the body he's now living in.”
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de Lint Master MythosUniverse

universe151 books1977

Urban fantasy.

“Newford you find by ear — a fiddle tune drifting up from a subway grate, a story a friend swears is true, the particular hush of an alley where the streetlight never quite reaches.”
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Start with Juniper Wiles →

includes Wildlings, Santo del Vado Viejo, AZ, Cerin Songweaver

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
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Start with The Summer Tree →

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