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series3 books1975

Dark 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.”
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The ShiningSeries

series5 books1977

Dark in tone, about psychic powers and addiction, set in north america.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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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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includes Dracula Sequence, Dracula Adaptations, The Return of Dracula, Theological College of St. Van Helsing, Dracula's Children, Quincey Morris (Dracula spin-off)

I Am LegendNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

Post-apocalyptic, about survival and last of their kind, set in mid 20th century.

“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
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Hunger (Whitley Strieber)Series

series3 books1981

Dark in tone.

“Whitley Strieber's The Hunger centers on Miriam Blaylock, a beautiful, wealthy vampire who takes human lovers and transforms them into vampire-human hybrids, feeding off them across centuries.”
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NecroscopeSeries

series26 books1982

completed

Dark in tone, about undead.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
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