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CarrieNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1974
Psychological horror, about psychic powers and revenge, set in small town.
The ShiningSeries
series5 books1977
Dark in tone, about psychic powers and addiction.
“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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InsomniaNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1994
About grief and loss, set in small town.
Hell HouseNovel
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1971
Ghost stories, dark in tone.
“Richard Matheson's haunted-house novel, later filmed as The Legend of Hell House.”
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MiseryNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987
Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller, about survival and addiction.
“Novelist Paul Sheldon finishes the manuscript that will finally kill off Misery Chastain, the heroine who made his career, when a snowstorm sends his car off a Colorado road.”
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Desperation/RegulatorsSeries
series2 books1996
Dark in tone, about survival, set in small town.
“Stephen King published Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously in 1996, the first under his own name and the second under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.”
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