Books like The Dead Zone
If you liked The Dead Zone by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Firestarter
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller, psychic powers.
Fugitive dad and fire starting daughter run from the Shop that made them.
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Doctor Sleep
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller, psychic powers.
Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.
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Under the Dome
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
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The Institute
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
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Cujo
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
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The Outsider
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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11/22/63
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: thriller, horror.
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life…
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Misery
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.
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The Shining
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, thriller.
The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.
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Lock Every Door
Because shares tags: thriller, horror.
Broke Jules apartment sits at the Bartholomew where another sitter vanished.
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Home Before Dark
Because shares tags: horror, thriller.
Maggie renovates haunted Baneberry Hall her father made famous.
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Leviathan Wakes
Because shares tags: thriller, politics.
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
