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series3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about vampires and grief and loss, set in small town.

“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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Rosemary ReillySeries

series2 books1967

completed

About demons and parenthood, set in big city.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
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The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

series15 books1976

completed

Gothic, about vampires and immortality.

“Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”
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Charlie Manx / ChristmaslandSeries

series3 books2013

Dark fantasy.

“Victoria McQueen, who has a similar power to find impossible roads, spends the novel and the companion story Wraith trying to stop him — a linked pursuit across decades rather than a conventional numbered series.”
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The ShiningSeries

series5 books1977

About psychic powers and addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Beast House ChroniclesSeries

series4 books1980

completed

Splatterpunk, about survival.

“Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost.”
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