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CarrieNovel
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1974
Psychological horror, about psychic powers, set in small town and late 20th century.
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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MiseryNovel
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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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 ShiningSeries
series5 books1977
About psychic powers and addiction.
“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Desperation/RegulatorsSeries
series2 books1996
About madness, 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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Start with Desperation →