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Books like Pet Sematary
Loved Pet Sematary by Stephen King? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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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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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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Intensity
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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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
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Interview with the Vampire
A vampire tells the centuries-long story of his making; lush, gothic and genre-defining.
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The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two pri
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Breaking Dawn
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Two sisters live shunned in a grand house after a family tragedy; eerie, sly and unforgettable.
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New Moon
I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more danger
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The Power of Darkness
The book "Power of Darkness" is an edition of twenty dark, mysterious stories. Each has its significance, perhaps in love, often in human terror and solitary endurance. From the love a man bears his d