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BreatheNovel
Cliff McNishstandalone novel2006
Ghost stories, tense in tone, about survival, set in countryside & village.
“Twelve-year-old Jack, suffering from chronic asthma, has just moved into the old house with his widowed mother, and discovers that the Ghost Mother wants him to herself.”
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Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
Dark in tone, about vampires, 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.”
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Her Fearful SymmetryNovel
Audrey Niffeneggerstandalone novel2009
Gothic and ghost stories, about family secrets.
Pet SemataryNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1983
Dark in tone, about curses, set in north america and small town.
If You Could See Me NowNovel
Peter Straubstandalone novel1976
Gothic and ghost stories, dark in tone, set in north america.
“Coward, McCann & Geoghegan published an American edition also in June 1977.”
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Duma KeyNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2008
Psychological horror, about art and artists, set in north america and islands.
“A workplace accident crushes Edgar Freemantle's truck, costs him his right arm, and leaves him with brain damage that scrambles his speech and memory -- severe enough that his marriage doesn't survive.”
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