Books like The Fireman
A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.
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The Passage
A secret military project to engineer soldiers from a virus found in the Bolivian jungle needs one more subject, six-year-old Amy Harper Bellafonte, and FBI agent Brad Wolgast, sent to bring her in, cannot go through with it, just as the experiment escapes its lab.
Survivor Song
As a fast-moving rabies-like virus sweeps Massachusetts, Ramola Sherman, a paediatrician, gets a call from her friend Natalie, eight months pregnant, who has just been bitten.
Cell
Clay Riddell, an artist in Boston on the day he sells his graphic novel, watches everyone on a mobile phone suddenly turn violent, and sets off north to find his son in Maine.
The Stand
A superflu kills most of humanity, and the survivors are drawn into a final battle between good and evil across a devastated America.
NOS4A2
Vic McQueen can find lost things by riding her bicycle across a covered bridge that should not exist, and as a teenager it leads her to Charlie Manx, who takes children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce to a place called Christmasland.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.
Harvest Home
A New York artist moves his family to a picturesque Connecticut farming village that still celebrates the old harvest rites, and slowly learns what the women of Cornwall Coombe expect of the corn.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
The Cabin at the End of the World
Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are on holiday at a remote lakeside cabin in New Hampshire when four strangers carrying homemade weapons arrive and tell them they must make an unthinkable choice to prevent the end of the world.
Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy, a struggling actor, move into the Bramford, an old Manhattan apartment building with a dark history, and when Rosemary becomes pregnant, the elderly neighbours who have befriended them take an unusually close interest in the baby.
Wilder Girls
Eighteen months after a sickness called the Tox struck the Raxter School for Girls on an island off the coast of Maine, the survivors live under quarantine as their bodies change in terrible ways, and when Hetty's best friend Byatt goes missing, she breaks the rules to find her.
Song of Kali
Robert Luczak, an American poet and editor, travels to Calcutta with his Indian wife and their baby daughter to collect a new manuscript by M. Das, a celebrated Bengali poet believed to have died years before.