Series
Castle Rock
Stephen King & Richard Chizmar · 7 novels · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 3 short stories · 1978–2022
Castle Rock is the fictional Maine town that links a cluster of otherwise separate Stephen King novels and novellas, including The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and Elevation. Rather than telling one continuous story, the books share a setting and occasional recurring figures, such as Sheriff Alan Pangborn, while each follows its own self-contained plot and cast. Any title can be read on its own without needing the others.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
- Genre
- Theme
- Place
- Time
- Tone
- Audience
- Form
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Gwendy's Button Box(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Castle Rock at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s2
- 1980s7
- 1990s2
- 2000s1
- 2010s3
- 2020s1
Shape
7 novels · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 3 short stories
2 authors
Mood
Grim and intense: 81% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- It Grows on Youdarkest
- The Bodybrightest
- Premium Harmonycalmest
- The Dead Zonemost intense