If you liked
Books like Intensity
Loved Intensity by Dean Koontz? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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1
It
A group of friends face a shape-shifting evil in their home town, then again as adults; a doorstop of fear and friendship.
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2
The Shining
A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.
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3
The Haunting of Hill House
Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.
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4
Dracula
Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.
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5
Skeleton crew
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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6
Thinner
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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Misery
A novelist is held captive by his 'number-one fan'; a claustrophobic, white-knuckle thriller.
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8
Pet Sematary
A burial ground that brings things back, and a grief that won't take no; King at his bleakest.
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9
Christine
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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10
The Queen of the Damned
The third book in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel storylines. The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampire