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Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987

Thriller & suspense and psychological thriller, about 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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Jerusalem's LotSeries

series3 books1975

About vampires and grief and loss, set in small town and our world.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
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Desperation/RegulatorsSeries

series2 books1996

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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Under the DomeNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2009

Science fiction, about political intrigue, set in small town.

“A small town in Maine finds itself suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impenetrable barrier, and the clash of personalities of the trapped people takes its inexorable devastating course.”
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CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, about plague and pandemic, set in our world.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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The Girl Who Loved Tom GordonNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1999

Psychological horror, emotional in tone, about coming of age and loneliness.

“A nine year old girl becomes lost in the Maine forest while on a day hike with her family, and finds the strength to survive in her idolizing of the Red Sox closing pitcher.”
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