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Authors can have the same name, though often avoid it. Goodreads/Amazon will often incorrectly return illustrators, photographers or whatever in a Author search.
Samuel Clemens deliberately used a previously used pen name, Mark Twain, arguing that as the previous author was dead, he had no need of it!
It would be terrible if titles could be copyrighted. Big Corporations would try to own them. They do make bogus attempts to copyright phrases and character names.
Obviously it's a form of plagiarism if you have an English boy wizard called Harry Potter. It's not if he's an American Private Investigator with no magic.
Series names can be reused.
Marvel and DC (originally Detective) have tried to use legal threats to have superhero and superman. Unless you are copying a specific character the threats are bogus.
Both terms with various spacing & hyphens predate the foundation of those comics.
Oh, winter is coming.
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