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series3 books1975

Tense in tone, about grief and loss, 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with 'Salem's Lot →

Shadow Saga II (Christopher Golden)Series

series7 books1994

Set in our world and contemporary.

“Christopher Golden's Shadow Saga follows Peter Octavian, a centuries-old vampire working as a private investigator in a Boston where humans live alongside a hidden population of supernatural creatures, beginning with Of Saints and Shadows.”
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Start with Of Saints and Shadows →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

series2 books1969

Science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic and survival.

“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 →

Anita BlakeSeries

series42 books1993

Urban fantasy, tense in tone, set in north america.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
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Start with Guilty Pleasures →

The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Gothic, about immortality.

“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 →

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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Start with Dracula →

includes Dracula Sequence, The Return of Dracula, Dracula Adaptations, Dracula's Children, Theological College of St. Van Helsing, Quincey Morris (Dracula spin-off)

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