Some have noted that Brian Keene's expanded novel, Darkness On The Edge Of Town is very much like Stephen King's Under The Dome. Of course, Keene is often compared (by his publisher) to King. I've only read one Keene novel, THE CONQUEROR WORMS, which I enjoyed very much.
Bookgasm.com gives this summery:
As narrator Robbie Higgins recalls, he and the other residents of the small town of Walden, Va., woke up one morning to darkness. All light had disappeared, along with all electricity and other utilities. No phones, no TV, no radio, no Internet. Just darkness.
As Robbie; his girlfriend, Christy; and his buddy, Russ, struggle along with the other Walden residents to figure out what happened, they soon find that the rest of the world seems to have disappeared, and their town, as Robbie describes it, has been “stuffed into a bottle and covered by a black cloth.” A group of volunteer firemen venture out beyond the town borders, where the darkness seems to expand and thicken. Almost immediately after they vanish from sight, horrific screams are heard by those left behind, and the volunteers never return.
Robbie and his friends then find that the darkness emits strange powers over them. As they explore one evening toward the edge of town, they experience visions of those they once loved — now either dead or simply long-lost — who invite them deeper into the darkness.
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There is a town under some kind of a dome in many books, but the first such book is not "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", neither Clifford Simak's "All Flesh Is Grass", but John Wyndham's "The Midwich Cuckoos" from 1957 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos
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