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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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CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, about plague and pandemic.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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The HowlingSeries

series3 books1977

completed

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about werewolves, set in contemporary and 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.”
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Beast House ChroniclesSeries

series4 books1980

completed

Horror and splatterpunk, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and north america.

“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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DreamcatcherNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2001

Science fiction and alien invasion, about aliens and friendship.

“According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.”
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Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

series2 books1996

About madness, set in small town.

“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
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