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  • Cover of The Passage
    The PassageSeries

    series · 3 books · 2010

    Horror and science fiction, dark in tone, about vampires.

    Start with The Passage →

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  • Cover of The Fireman
    The FiremanNovel

    Joe Hill · standalone novel · 2016

    Science fiction, dark in tone, about plague and pandemic, set in our world.

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  • Cover of Night
    NightUniverse

    universe · 134 books · 2006

    Set in contemporary.

    “Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”

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    Start with Broken Lands →

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  • Cover of Forest of Hands and Teeth
    Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

    series · 9 books · 2009

    Zombie horror, dark in tone.

    “The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”

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    Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

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  • Cover of Farnham's Freehold
    Farnham's FreeholdNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1964

    Science fiction and time travel, about race and racism.

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  • Cover of Z for Zachariah
    Z for ZachariahNovel

    Robert C. O'Brien · standalone novel · 1975

    Science fiction, about coming of age and loneliness, set in our world.

    “Sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, on an Amish family farm in an isolated valley, believes she is the only survivor of nuclear war and nerve gas.”

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