If what gripped you in Carrion Comfort was how unseen manipulators steer the powerful—and the chilling question of whether you can justify extreme action to stop them—then King’s The Dead Zone will hit the same nerve. Like the mind-vampires nudging celebrities and senators, Johnny Smith’s visions put him on a collision course with a demagogue-in-the-making. The moral pressure—much like the hunters in Simmons’s book deciding how far they’ll go to halt a predator—is relentless, personal, and political all at once.

Loved how Carrion Comfort assembled scattered survivors and allies—across towns and decades—to hunt something that preys on human will? Ghost Story gathers the Chowder Society, a circle of old friends whose shared secret draws a merciless, protean enemy back to their town. As in Simmons’s novel, ordinary people band together, share fragments of a terrible history, and face a foe that wears human faces and turns their own fears against them.

If the lure of Carrion Comfort was its undefined, terrifying “Ability”—a psychic edge that lets predators puppeteer others—then The Power is a razor-clean hit. Robinson pits an academic against a hidden telepath whose capabilities feel as slippery and boundless as Simmons’s mind-feeders. The cat-and-mouse escalates from quiet manipulations to lethal set pieces, echoing those moments when a simple room in Carrion Comfort becomes a death trap the instant someone takes control.

If you were hooked by the investigative spine of Carrion Comfort—tracking a trail of bodies and influence to an unseen puppeteer—Falling Angel delivers that same inexorable unmasking. Private eye Harry Angel’s case starts as routine legwork and spirals into ritual, deception, and a client whose power feels as unnerving as Simmons’s psychic aristocrats. The city’s alleys and back rooms hide truths as lethal as any ambush by a mind-controller.

If the breadth of Carrion Comfort—from wartime atrocities to modern conspiracies, from small-town showdowns to national stakes—was your draw, Swan Song matches that epic reach. After civilization cracks, scattered survivors converge on a fight against a malevolent force that, like Simmons’s predators, exploits weakness and despair. The long arcs, shifting locales, and converging storylines scratch the same itch for big-canvas horror with human grit.