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Johnny Dixon and the ProfessorSeries
series13 books1983
Gothic, eerie in tone.
“In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Curse of the Blue Figurine →
Pet SemataryNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1983
Dark and eerie in tone, about grief and loss, set in small town.
Manitou / Harry ErskineSeries
series8 books1975
Horror, set in north america and contemporary.
“Graham Masterton's Manitou series follows Harry Erskine, a fraudulent New York fortune teller drawn into real supernatural danger when a client's tumor turns out to be the reincarnating spirit of a vengeful centuries-old medicine man.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Manitou →
The HowlingSeries
series3 books1977
completed
Dark in tone, about werewolves, set in our world.
“The Howling, Gary Brandner's 1977 novel, sets a woman recovering from trauma against a small California town that turns out to be sheltering a colony of werewolves.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Howling →
SuperstitiousNovel
R. L. Stinestandalone novel1995
Dark in tone.
CarrieNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1974
Psychological horror, about psychic powers and revenge, set in small town.