Series
King Kong
Brad Strickland, Delos W. Lovelace, Joe DeVito, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Christopher Golden, Draycot M. Dell, Edgar Rider Ragged, Edgar Wallace, John Michlig, Judith Conaway, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Matthew J. Costello, Russell Blackford, Tim Lebbon & Will Murray · 13 novels · 1 novella · 2 short stories · 1932–2024
King Kong, also referred to simply as Kong, is a fictional monster, a giant gorilla who has appeared in various media since 1933. The character has become an international pop culture icon, appearing in several movies, comics, videogames and television shows. His first appearance was in the novelization of the 1933 film King Kong from RKO Pictures, with the film premiering a little over two months later.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- King Kong of Skull Island(4 works)
Map
King Kong 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
- 1930s2
- 1940s0
- 1950s0
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s7
- 2010s2
- 2020s3
Shape
13 novels · 1 novella · 2 short stories
15 authors
reads like:adventureexpeditionsislandsearly 20th centuryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 81% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Ape's Wifedarkest · calmest
- King Dongbrightest
- Merian C. Cooper's King Kongmost intense