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Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
Dark in tone, about vampires and grief and loss, set in our world.
“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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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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PhantomsNovel
Dean R. Koontzstandalone novel1983
Science fiction, dark in tone, about aliens, set in underground & caves.
“In order to defeat it and save humanity, they must outwit it.”
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Sleeping BeautiesNovel
Stephen King & Owen Kingstandalone novel2017
Science fiction, dark in tone, about plague and pandemic and gender and society.
CellNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006
Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark in tone, set in our world.
“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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MiseryNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987
Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller, dark in tone, about addiction.
“Novelist Paul Sheldon finishes the manuscript that will finally kill off Misery Chastain, the heroine who made his career, when a snowstorm sends his car off a Colorado road.”
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