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Books like The Queen of the Damned

Loved The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    It

    Stephen King · 1986 · Horror

    A group of friends face a shape-shifting evil in their home town, then again as adults; a doorstop of fear and friendship.

  2. 2

    The Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · Horror

    A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.

  3. 3

    The Haunting of Hill House

    Shirley Jackson · 1959 · Horror

    Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.

  4. 4

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker · 1897 · Horror

    Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.

  5. 5

    Misery

    Stephen King · 1987 · Horror

    A novelist is held captive by his 'number-one fan'; a claustrophobic, white-knuckle thriller.

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    Intensity

    Dean Koontz · 1985 · Horror

    Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous soc

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    Skeleton crew

    Stephen King · 1985 · Horror

    From the Flap: The Master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy--tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time! Evil that breathes a

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    Thinner

    Stephen King · 1984 · Horror

    Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on lawyer Billy Halleck, who kills a crossing Romani woman

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    Pet Sematary

    Stephen King · 1983 · Horror

    A burial ground that brings things back, and a grief that won't take no; King at his bleakest.

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    Christine

    Stephen King · 1983 · Horror

    A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and

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