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Jerusalem's LotSeries
series3 books1975
About vampires and 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.”
from the catalogue
Start with 'Salem's Lot →
The Living DeadSeries
series13 books1974
Zombie horror and horror, set in contemporary.
Start with Night of the Living Dead →
World War ZSeries
series3 books2006
About war and plague and pandemic.
Start with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War →
The LabyrinthUniverse
universe48 books2001
Horror, dark in tone, set in contemporary.
“Here the walls between apocalypses are thin, and the same old hungers press against all of them.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Rising →
includes The Rising (Brian Keene), Earthworm Gods, Lehorn's Hollow, The Lost Level
Dead World (Joe McKinney)Series
series7 books2006
completed
Set in north america.
“In the wake of five cataclysmic hurricanes, a deadly virus breaks out in Texas, returning the dead to life with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.”
from the catalogue
Start with Dead City →
Monster IslandSeries
series3 books2006
About plague and pandemic.
Start with Monster Island →