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Books: Small town

Horror on the page: what each book is, who wrote it and how scary it gets.

Book · 1975

'Salem's Lot

A writer goes home to Jerusalem's Lot and finds the neighbours have started keeping very strange hours.

Book · 1974

Carrie

A telekinetic teenager's revenge after a cruel prom night prank turns Chamberlain, Maine into a nightmare.

Book · 1996

Desperation

Stephen King's 1996 horror novel, twinned with a mirror story where the same people live very different fates.

Book · 1994

Insomnia

A widower's sleepless nights open his eyes to auras, and to a war fought for the fate of one small life.

Book · 1986

It

Seven children are hunted by a shapeshifting entity that wears a clown's smile to get close to them.

Book · 1991

Needful Things

A new shop in Castle Rock offers people the things they want, if they will do a strange favour for its owner.

Book · 1987

The Tommyknockers

A mysterious buried object begins to change a town in Stephen King’s unsettling science fiction horror novel.

Book · 2009

Under the Dome

A small town is cut off by an invisible barrier, leaving its people to face the fear of being trapped together.

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The After Dark Top 40

Forty horror films counted down like the charts, from silent classics to new favourites, picked by Erin and sent the moment you join.