Books like 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.
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Swan Song
After a nuclear war leaves America a frozen wasteland, a girl called Swan who can make things grow, a former wrestler named Josh and a homeless woman known as Sister cross the ruins, hunted by an ancient evil that wants the world to stay dead.
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.
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Seven children in a small Maine town confront a shape-shifting evil that feeds on fear, then return as adults to finish what they started.
I Am Legend
Robert Neville may be the last man alive in Los Angeles after a plague turned everyone else into vampires; by day he hunts them and searches for the cause, and by night he barricades himself in his house while they call for him to come out.
The Shining
A family moves into a haunted hotel for the winter, and the building's malevolence feeds on a father's alcoholism and a son's psychic gift.
The Girl with All the Gifts
Melanie is a bright ten-year-old who loves Greek myths and her teacher, Miss Justineau, and who lives on an army base where every morning soldiers strap her into a wheelchair at gunpoint before taking her to class.
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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.
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.
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 Talisman
Jack Sawyer, twelve, whose actress mother is dying in an off-season New Hampshire resort hotel, sets out across America and the Territories, a world alongside ours, to find the talisman that could save her.
Station Eleven
A travelling Shakespeare company performs King Lear in the Great Lakes region twenty years after a flu pandemic wiped out civilisation.
Interview with the Vampire
In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.