Dexter is the creation of American crime novelist Jeff Lindsay, made famous thanks to the Showtime television series of the same name, where he is portrayed by Michael C. Hall. Dexter Morgan is a forensic blood-spatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department by day and a serial killer by night. Convinced the legal system failed…
Like the Landry series, The Cutler Series is actually not written by V.C. Andrews but by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate to continue to write novels to be published under her name (Virginia Andrews’s name is considered a valuable commercial asset). V.C. Andrews had started writing the first book in the series,…
Don’t you already know? Stephen King is one of the most famous authors in the world, the “King of Horror” who has sold more than 350 million copies. He already wrote more than 60 novels (and 200 short stories), and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. Born in Portland,…
So, The Laundry Files is a series of science fiction spy thrillers written by British author Charles Stross (the author of The Merchant Princes series). The story is about Bob Howard, an I.T. consultant who is now a field agent for the British government agency known as The Laundry. This organization deals with occult threats…
Published between 1985 and 1990, The Casteel book series was the second novel series written by V.C. Andrews, after The Dollanganger series. Andrews wrote the first two books and started the third, but didn’t finish it. The series was completed by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate following her death to continue to…
Written by Darren O’Shaughnessy under his pen name Darren Shan (author of The Demonata series), Cirque du Freak : The Saga of Darren Shan narrates the life of Darren Shan, a normal human boy who is coerced by the vampire Larten Crepsley into becoming his assistant and a half-vampire. The Saga of Darren Shan is…
Written by British author and TV Writer Stephen Leather (Spider Shepherd), the Jack Nightingale series is about a former police negotiator who becomes a private investigator, with a supernatural twist. A fan of occult stories (including the Hellblazer comics), Leather wanted to write a police story with a real investigation, but the culprit a demon…
After the success of the new adaptation of Flowers in the Attic and its sequel, Lifetime continued to adapt V.C. Andrews’ books, first with an adaptation of The Casteel series and then with The Landry series, with V.C. Andrews’ Ruby Movie Series Event. The Ruby Series (or The Landry Series) is actually not written by…
The Charlie Parker series of supernatural crime thrillers is written by Irish author John Connolly that was launched in 1999. The story of the Charlie Parker series focuses on a former New York City policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Parker is now a private investigator whose cases are pushing him into…
Written by American author Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga is a young adult vampire-romance series about the love story between a seventeen-year-old human girl, Bella Swan, and a 104-year-old vampire, Edward Cullen. Most of the story is told from Bella’s perspective. One of the biggest phenomena of the 2000s, with 160 million copies sold worldwide,…
New York Times Best-Selling Author, Charlaine Harris is a writer who specializes in mysteries, often with an urban fantasy twist, and who got especially famous after her Southern Vampire Mysteries series was adapted for TV (on HBO!) under the title True Blood. Another famous series by Charlaine Harris adapted this time for the Hallmark Channel…
Born Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), V.C. Andrews was an American author mixing gothic horror with family saga who made her name with Flowers in the Attic, published in 1979, and which became an instant success. After that, she published a new novel each year until her death. She wrote…
