Stephen King Books In Order
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Mr. Mercedes | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Finders Keepers | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
End of Watch | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Button Box Books
Gwendy's Button Box | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gwendy's Magic Feather | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gwendy's Final Task | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower Books
The Gunslinger | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Drawing of the Three | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Waste Lands | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wizard and Glass | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wolves of the Calla | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Song of Susannah | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Tower | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wind Through the Keyhole | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower: Beginnings Books
The Gunslinger Born | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Road Home | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Treachery | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fall of Gilead | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Battle of Jericho Hill | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three Books
The Prisoner | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
House of Cards | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady of Shadows | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bitter Medicine | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Books
The Journey Begins | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Sisters of Eluria | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Battle of Tull | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Way Station | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man in Black | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Shots | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Green Mile Books
The Two Dead Girls | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mouse on the Mile | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Coffey's Hands | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night Journey | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Coffey on the Mile | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Outsider Books
Publication Order of Secretary of Dreams Books
The Secretary of Dreams | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secretary of Dreams Volume 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Shining Books
Publication Order of Talisman Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Quitters, Inc. | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crouch End | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mist | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monkey | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Do the Dead Sing? | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shawshank Redemption | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncle Otto's Truck | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apt Pupil | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cycle of the Werewolf | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silver Bullet | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Breathing Method | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Whole Mess | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night Flier | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dolan's Cadillac | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Pretty Pony | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Langoliers | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Library Policeman | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sun Dog | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Window, Secret Garden | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Carols | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of the Corn | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man in the Black Suit | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Umney's Last Case | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Everything's Eventual | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Riding the Bullet | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
LT's Theory of Pets | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Autopsy Room Four | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lisey and the Madman | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Things They Left Behind | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stationary Bike | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harvey's Dream | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gingerbread Girl | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
UR | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Morality | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1922 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blockade Billy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mile 81 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Green God of Agony | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Throttle | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stephen King's Battleground | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Face in the Crowd | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Driver | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Tall Grass | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Good Marriage | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drunken Fireworks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Laurie | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Obits | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Low Men In Yellow Coats (in Hearts in Atlantis) | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elevation | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Screen | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Night Shift | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Different Seasons | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skeleton Crew | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Past Midnight | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightmares and Dreamscapes | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Mile | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Stories | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hearts in Atlantis | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood and Smoke | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just After Sunset | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
N | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stephen King Goes to the Movies | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Full Dark, No Stars | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Road Rage | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
If It Bleeds | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
If It Bleeds is a standalone short story sequel to The Outsider. |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Creepshow | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Talisman: Road of Trials | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Stephen King's Danse Macabre | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Danse Macabre | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Writing | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faithful | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guns | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hearts in Suspension | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transgressions | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Pan Book of Horror Stories Books
The Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The First Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 14th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 15th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 16th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 17th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 19th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 25th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 28th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 30th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of The Stand: Graphic Novels Books
Captain Trips | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Nightmares | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hardcases | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soul Survivors | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Man's Land | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night Has Come | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of American Vampire Books
American Vampire, Vol. 1 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire, Vol. 2 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire, Vol. 3 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire, Vol. 4 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire Vol. 5 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire, Vol. 6 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire, Vol. 7 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire Vol. 8 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Vampire 1976 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Tales of Unknown Horror | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Finest Fantasy | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VII | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Tales of Unknown Horror | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Finest Fantasy 2 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Terrors II | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows 4 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventeenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy Annual 3 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Love | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book Of Horror Stories | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy Annual IV | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modern Masters of Horror | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Realms of Darkness | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horrors | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Descent | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Treasury of American Horror Stories | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror Factor 7 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prime Evil | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Visions | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book of the Dead | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Modern Horror | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Voices: No. 1 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horrorstory | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight Graffiti | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Young Blood | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mid-life Confidential | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Puffin Book of Horror Stories | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vampire Omnibus | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Space Movies | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror Stories | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Gothic Tales | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Thirst | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vintage Science Fiction | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Technohorror: Inventions in Terror | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Century of Great Suspense Stories | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Masques | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baseball: a Literary Anthology | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wavedancer Benefit: A Tribute to Frank Muller | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Shadow of the Master | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Ghost Stories | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Future Dictionary of America | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transgressions | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Living Dead | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dancing with the Dark | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Book of NECON | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shivers VI | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed: Year One | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Book of Horrors | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rage Against the Night | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turn Down the Lights | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Qualia Nous | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Woman: An Anthology | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Field of Fantasies | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chiral Mad 3 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Scary Stories | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grave Predictions | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detours | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You, Human | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flight or Fright | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It Came From The Garage!: An Anthology of Automotive Horror | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Tides | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, Vol II | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chiral Mad 5 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stephen King Biography:
Stephen King is a prolific American author who is known for his suspense and fantasy novels. King has written several novels since his first short story sale in 1967 that have become pop cultural signposts. Every Stephen King reader has a favorite tale or series, from Christine to Cujo.
His works have sold more than 350 million copies. Many of these have been adapted into movies or series for television. He has written many books, including non-fiction and over 200 short stories. King also has an alias named Richard Bachman. Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He has an older brother, David. His parents Donald and Nellie Ruth divorced when he was young.
When he was eleven they moved from Indiana to Durham, Maine. King went to elementary school in Durham and graduated in 1966 from Lisbon Falls High School. He attended the University of Maine at Orono where he wrote for the school’s newspaper.
He also was active in Student Senate and supported the anti-war movement at UMO. He graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of the Arts in English. His daughter Naomi Rose was born the same year. Following graduation, King failed a draft board examination for service and was not drafted to participate in the War. He married Tabitha King in 1971.
He had met Tabitha when they were students in the library stacks where they both worked. King worked as an industrial laundry laborer as a result of not being able to find a teaching position right away. He sold several short stories to magazines and finally found a job teaching English at Hampden Academy in the fall of 1971. He continued to write in his spare time while teaching.
Stephen King’s first novel Carrie was accepted for publication in 1973 by Doubleday & Co. In between the Kings moved to southern Maine due to the poor health of Stephen’s mother. King wrote what would become Salem’s Lot while the family stayed at the summer cottage.
His mother died the same year from cancer at the age of 59. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. The Kings moved to Colorado for what would ultimately be a year, during which time Stephen King wrote The Shining, which is set in the same state.
Carrie was made in to a feature film starring Sissy Spacek as an outcast high school girl who discovers she has mental powers. It is being made into a 2013 revision starring Chloe Moretz. The Shining was made into a full-length movie in 1980 starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for Best Actor for the role.
The Kings bought a home in western Maine near the lakes and returned there to live for some time. During this period, King wrote The Stand, set in Colorado, and The Dead Zone. The Shining was published in 1977 and The Stand was published the next year.
After spending some time in England, the Kings returned to Maine and bought a house in Center Lovell. They then moved closer to Bangor for a position Stephen had been offered at the University of Maine Orono teaching Creative Writing. In 1979 they returned to Center Lovell, then bought a home in Bangor. King wrote a number of additional novels from 1977 to 1980 as well.
He finished Rage, Night Shift, a collection of stories, The Long Walk, and Firestarter. Cujo was published in 1981. The book would be made into a feature-length film the same year that gave hundreds of children nightmares about a terrifying, crazed rabid dog.
King has little to no memory of writing it. It was during this time period that King’s family staged an intervention for his drug and alcohol addiction. Confronted with the numerous substances he abused, King quit all drugs and alcohol in the late 1980s. He debuted as a director with an adaptation of his short story “Trucks”, called “Maximum Overdrive”.
King published the first of his Dark Tower series in 1982. The novel was called The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. It would be followed by six more books through the years and is King’s own stated magnum opus. The story spans two worlds that are strangely connected and may be in more ways than one. Roland is The Gunslinger, a courageous man of honor with a storied past.
He is pursuing the mysterious Man In Black, and meets a child named Jake who hails from Manhattan. Part John Wayne, part archetype, the series is inspired by a number of things dear to King, including spaghetti western movies and Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai”.
The second story in the Dark Tower series is called The Drawing of the Three”. It was published in 1987. Roland is in a bind once again, waking up on a beach filled with hungry carnivorous lobsters. Three doors appear to him that are linked to different worlds.
They take him to meet different people. These include a dangerous sociopath named Jack Mort, a woman with multiple personalities named Odetta, and Eddie Dean, who is desperately addicted to heroin. Roland must navigate his way through the various timelines and worlds on Earth while just maybe being able to act in them to save a life.
Multiple Stephen King novels have been adapted for television or made into movies over the years. Along the way, they’ve become pop culture icons. Christine, a movie about a car come to life, was made in 1983. The Dead Zone, starring Christopher Walken, also came out that year about a man developing the power to see the future after waking from a coma.
Children of the Corn debuted in 1984 and led to an impressive seven sequels. Firestarter also became a feature film starring Drew Barrymore in 1984 and later became a tv series. Stand By Me was made into a movie in 1986 and enjoyed wide critical success.
King’s Running Man was made into a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a contestant in a dystopian television game show where the winners regain their freedom. Other notable movies include Pet Sematary, a spooky thriller about dead pets come to life, and 1990’s Misery, which Kathy Bates won an Oscar for as the kidnapper of a famous author.
Shawshank Redemption earned rave reviews and The Green Mile grossed over $135 million at the box office alone featuring Michael Clarke Douglas as a doomed inmate with special abilities.
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Was there a book written for Maximum Overdrive, if so, is it under another title.
Yep it was based off Trucks which is a short story inside Night Shift.
Can’t get enough love to pieces other than the short story in one of your collection books is there an actual book for 1408
Where’s ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’?
Under the dome parts 1 and 2 are two more of his books that can be added to the list
Hi Tiffany,
Under the Dome is just one novel, which is already on the list under the standalones. I know that some stores list both Part 1 & 2 – what the publishers did is take the original novel, and then split it into 2 later on for additional sales. However it was originally published as one big novel.