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series3 books1975

Dark and eerie in tone, about vampires and grief and loss.

“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 →

Beast House ChroniclesSeries

series4 books1980

completed

Splatterpunk, dark in tone.

“Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost.”
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Start with The Cellar →

John Decker UniverseSeries

series19 books2015

Horror, set in contemporary.

Start with Soul Catcher →

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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GoosebumpsUniverse

universe234 books1992

“Each book is its own self-contained nightmare, narrated by an ordinary boy or girl whose ordinary street has quietly turned against them — and every one snaps shut on a twist that pulls the rug out one last time before the lights come up.”
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Start with Revenge of the Living Dummy →

includes Goosebumps Most Wanted, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Series 2000, Goosebumps: Hall of Horrors, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Goosebumps SlappyWorld, Goosebumps The Movie, Tales to Give You Goosebumps

Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

series2 books1996

Dark in tone, about madness.

“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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