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Stephen King is an American author best known for his horror and supernatural fiction works. Stephen King was born in 1947 to Donald Edwin King (a merchant Seaman) and Nellie Ruth in Portland Maine.
Made famous by Carrie, his first novel, written in 1973 and published by Doubleday, Stephen King is the world’s most widely renowned supernatural/horror fiction novelist. With over fifty novels under his name, along with nearly 200 short stories, King’s works have astounded and demented readers for decades, King crafting some of the most bizarre worlds and monstrous characters the literary arena has ever seen. His books have sold over 300 million copies, with titles like the Shining, The Stand and The Dead Zone earning the writer considerable fame.
Order of Bill Hodges Trilogy Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Mr. Mercedes | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Finders Keepers | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
3 | End of Watch | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Button Box Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Gwendy's Button Box | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Gwendy's Magic Feather | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Gwendy's Final Task | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dark Tower Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Gunslinger | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Drawing of the Three | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Waste Lands | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Wizard and Glass | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Wolves of the Calla | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Song of Susannah | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Dark Tower | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Wind Through the Keyhole | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dark Tower: Beginnings Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Gunslinger Born | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Long Road Home | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Treachery | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Fall of Gilead | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Battle of Jericho Hill (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three Series with Robin Furth, Peter David
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Prisoner (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
2 | House of Cards (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Lady of Shadows (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Bitter Medicine (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Series with Robin Furth, Peter David
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Journey Begins (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Little Sisters of Eluria (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Battle of Tull (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Way Station (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Man in Black (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Last Shots (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Green Mile Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Two Dead Girls | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Mouse on the Mile | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Coffey's Hands | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Night Journey | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Coffey on the Mile | 1996 | Description / Buy |
Order of Secretary of Dreams Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Secretary of Dreams | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Secretary of Dreams Volume 2 | 2010 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Shining Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Shining | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Doctor Sleep | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Talisman Series with Peter Straub
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Talisman | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Black House | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stephen King Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Carrie | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 'Salem's Lot | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Rage | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Stand | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Long Walk | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Dead Zone | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Firestarter | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Roadwork | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Cujo | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Running Man | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Christine | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Pet Sematary | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Thinner | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
14 | It | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Eyes of the Dragon | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Misery | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Tommyknockers | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
18 | One Past Midnight: The Langoliers (Four Past Midnight) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Dark Half | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Needful Things | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Gerald's Game | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Dolores Claiborne | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Insomnia | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Rose Madder | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Desperation | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Regulators | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Bag of Bones | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Dreamcatcher | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
30 | From a Buick 8 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Colorado Kid | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Cell | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Lisey's Story | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Blaze | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Duma Key | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Under the Dome | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
37 | 11/22/63 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Joyland | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Revival | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Sleeping Beauties | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
41 | The Outsider | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The Institute | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Later | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Billy Summers | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Fairy Tale | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stephen King Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Quitters, Inc. | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Crouch End | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Mist | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Monkey | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Do the Dead Sing? | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Body (Short Story) | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Shawshank Redemption (Short Story) | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Apt Pupil | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Cycle of the Werewolf (Short Story) | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Silver Bullet | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Breathing Method (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (Short Story) | 1984 | ||
13 | The End of the Whole Mess | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Night Flier (Short Story) | 1988 | ||
15 | Dolan's Cadillac (Short Story) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
16 | My Pretty Pony (Short Story) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Langoliers | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Library Policeman | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Sun Dog | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Secret Window, Secret Garden | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Three Carols (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Children of the Corn (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Man in the Black Suit | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Umney's Last Case (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Everything's Eventual | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Riding the Bullet (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
27 | LT's Theory of Pets | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Autopsy Room Four (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Lisey and the Madman | 2004 | ||
30 | The Things They Left Behind | 2005 | ||
31 | Stationary Bike | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Harvey's Dream | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Gingerbread Girl | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
34 | UR | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Morality (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
36 | 1922 (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Blockade Billy (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Mile 81 (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Herman Wouk Is Still Alive | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Throttle (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Stephen King's Battleground | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
42 | A Face in the Crowd (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Big Driver | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
44 | In the Tall Grass (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
45 | A Good Marriage | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Drunken Fireworks | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Obits (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Low Men In Yellow Coats (in Hearts in Atlantis) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Elevation (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stephen King Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Night Shift | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Different Seasons | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Skeleton Crew | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Four Past Midnight | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Nightmares and Dreamscapes | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Green Mile | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Six Stories | 1997 | ||
9 | Hearts in Atlantis | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Blood and Smoke | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Just After Sunset | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
14 | N | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Stephen King Goes to the Movies | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
16 | In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Full Dark, No Stars | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Road Rage | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
20 | If It Bleeds | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stephen King Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Creepshow (Short Story) | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Talisman: Road of Trials | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stephen King Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Stephen King's Danse Macabre | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Danse Macabre | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
6 | On Writing | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Faithful | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Guns (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Hearts in Suspension | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Transgressions Series with Lawrence Block, Ed McBain, John Farris
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Transgressions | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Transgressions, Vol. 2 | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stephen King Plays
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Best American Short Stories Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Best Short Stories of 1915 | 1916 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Best Short Stories of 1916 | 1916 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Best Short Stories of 1917 | 1917 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Best Short Stories of 1918 | 1918 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Best Short Stories of 1919 | 1919 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Best Short Stories of 1921 | 1921 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Best Short Stories of 1922 | 1922 | ||
8 | The Best Short Stories of 1923 | 1923 | ||
9 | The Best Short Stories 1924 | 1924 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Best Short Stories of 1925 | 1925 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Best Short Stories 1926 | 1926 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Best Short Stories 1927 | 1927 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Best Short Stories of 1928 | 1928 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Best Short Stories of 1929 | 1929 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Best Short Stories 1930 | 1930 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Best Short Stories 1931 | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Best Short Stories of 1932 | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Best Short Stories 1933 | 1933 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Best Short Stories 1934 | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Best Short Stories 1935 | 1935 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Best Short Stories 1936 | 1936 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The Best Short Stories 1937 | 1937 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Best Short Stories of 1938 | 1938 | Description / Buy | |
24 | 50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | 1939 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Best Short Stories 1939 | 1939 | ||
26 | The Best Short Stories of 1940 | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Best Short Stories 1941 | 1941 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Best American Short Stories 1942 | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
29 | The Best American Short Stories 1943 | 1943 | Description / Buy | |
30 | The Best American Short Stories 1944 | 1944 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Best American Short Stories 1945 | 1945 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Best American Short Stories 1946 | 1946 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Best American Short Stories 1947 | 1947 | Description / Buy | |
34 | The Best American Short Stories 1948 | 1948 | Description / Buy | |
35 | The Best American Short Stories 1949 | 1949 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Best American Short Stories 1950 | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
37 | The Best American Short Stories 1951 | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
38 | The Best American Short Stories 1952 | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Best American Short Stories 1953 | 1953 | Description / Buy | |
40 | The Best American Short Stories 1955 | 1955 | Description / Buy | |
41 | The Best American Short Stories 1956 | 1956 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The Best American Short Stories 1957 | 1957 | Description / Buy | |
43 | The Best American Short Stories 1958 | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
44 | The Best American Short Stories 1959 | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
45 | The Best American Short Stories 1960 | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
46 | The Best American Short Stories 1961 | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
47 | The Best American Short Stories 1962 | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
48 | The Best American Short Stories 1963 | 1963 | Description / Buy | |
49 | The Best American Short Stories 1964 | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
50 | The Best American Short Stories 1965 | 1965 | Description / Buy | |
51 | The Best American Short Stories 1966 | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
52 | The Best American Short Stories 1967 | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
53 | The Best American Short Stories 1968 | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
54 | The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
55 | The Best American Short Stories 1970 | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
56 | The Best American Short Stories 1971 | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
57 | The Best American Short Stories 1972 | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
58 | The Best American Short Stories 1973 | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
59 | The Best American Short Stories 1974 | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
60 | The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
61 | The Best American Short Stories 1975 | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
62 | The Best American Short Stories 1976 | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
63 | The Best American Short Stories 1977 | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
64 | The Best American Short Stories 1978 | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
65 | The Best American Short Stories 1979 | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
66 | The Best American Short Stories 1980 | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
67 | The Best American Short Stories 1981 | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
68 | The Best American Short Stories 1982 | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
69 | The Best American Short Stories 1983 | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
70 | The Best American Short Stories 1984 | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
71 | The Best American Short Stories 1985 | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
72 | The Best American Short Stories 1986 | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
73 | The Best American Short Stories 1987 | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
74 | The Best American Short Stories 1988 | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
75 | The Best American Short Stories 1989 | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
76 | The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
77 | The Best American Short Stories 1990 | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
78 | The Best American Short Stories 1991 | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
79 | The Best American Short Stories 1992 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
80 | The Best American Short Stories 1993 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
81 | The Best American Short Stories 1994 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
82 | The Best American Short Stories 1995 | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
83 | The Best American Short Stories 1996 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
84 | The Best American Short Stories 1997 | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
85 | The Best American Short Stories 1998 | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
86 | The Best American Short Stories 1999 | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
87 | The Best American Short Stories 2000 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
88 | The Best American Short Stories of the Century | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
89 | The Best American Short Stories 2001 | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
90 | The Best American Short Stories 2002 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
91 | The Best American Short Stories 2003 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
92 | The Best American Short Stories 2004 | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
93 | The Best American Short Stories 2005 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
94 | The Best American Short Stories 2006 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
95 | The Best American Short Stories 2007 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
96 | The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
97 | The Best American Short Stories 1921 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
98 | The Best American Short Stories 2008 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
99 | The Best American Short Stories 2009 | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
100 | The Best American Short Stories 2010 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
101 | The Best American Short Stories 2011 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
102 | The Best American Short Stories 2012 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
103 | The Best American Short Stories 2013 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
104 | The Best American Short Stories 2014 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
105 | The Best American Short Stories 2015 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
106 | 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
107 | The Best American Short Stories 2016 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
108 | The Best American Short Stories 2017 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
109 | The Best American Short Stories 2018 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
110 | The Best American Short Stories 2019 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
111 | The Best American Short Stories 2020 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
112 | The Best American Short Stories 2022 | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Pan Book of Horror Stories Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The First Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1963 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1965 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The 14th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The 15th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The 16th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The 17th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The 19th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The 23rd Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The 25th Pan Book of Horror Stories | 1984 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Best Horror of the Year Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Roots and All | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 12 | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of American Vampire Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | American Vampire Omnibus Vol. 1 | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Selected Shorts Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Selected Shorts: Fictions for Our Times: Listener Favorites Old & New | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs 18 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Selected Shorts: Baseball | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Selected Shorts: Falling in Love | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Selected Shorts: Food Fictions | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Selected Shorts: Travel Tales A Celebration Of The Short Story (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Selected Shorts: Family Matters | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Selected Shorts: Pets! (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Selected Shorts: Are We There Yet? | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Selected Shorts: Wondrous Women | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Selected Shorts: For Better and for Worse | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Selected Shorts: The William Hurt Collection | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Selected Shorts: Whodunit? | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Selected Shorts: American Classics | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Selected Shorts: New American Stories | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Selected Shorts: Funny Business | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Best New Horror | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Best New Horror 2 | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Best New Horror 3 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Giant Book of Best New Horror | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Best New Horror 4 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Best New Horror 5 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Best New Horror 6 | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Best New Horror 16 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Best New Horror 17 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Best New Horror 18 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Best of Best New Horror | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Best New Horror 19 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Best New Horror 20 | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Best New Horror 21 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Best New Horror 22 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Best New Horror 23 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Best New Horror 24 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Best New Horror 25 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Best New Horror #26 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Best New Horror 27 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Best New Horror 28 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Best New Horror 29 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Best of Best New Horror, Volume One | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Best New Horror #30 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Best New Horror #31 | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Book of the Dead Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Book of the Dead | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Still Dead | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Mondo Zombie | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of Great Ghost Stories Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Great Ghost Stories | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Tales to Freeze the Blood | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Stand: Graphic Novels Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Captain Trips | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | American Nightmares (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Hardcases (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Soul Survivors (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | No Man's Land (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Night Has Come | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Stephen King Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Tales of Unknown Horror | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Year's Finest Fantasy | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VII | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
5 | More Tales of Unknown Horror | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Year's Finest Fantasy 2 | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
7 | New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
9 | New Terrors II | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Shadows 4 | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Fantasy Annual 3 | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Dark Love | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Giant Book Of Horror Stories | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Shadows | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Fantasy Annual IV | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Modern Masters of Horror | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Realms of Darkness | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Year's Best Horror Stories | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Horrors | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Dark Descent | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
24 | A Treasury of American Horror Stories | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Prime Evil | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Dark Visions | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1989 | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Dark Voices: No. 1 | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Horrorstory | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Horror Hall of Fame | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
33 | I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Midnight Graffiti | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Young Blood | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
37 | The Puffin Book of Horror Stories | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
38 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Vampire Omnibus | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Space Movies | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Horror Stories | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
44 | American Gothic Tales | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Blood Thirst | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Robert Bloch's Psychos | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
47 | The Best of the Best | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
48 | The Playboy Book of Science Fiction | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
51 | 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Vintage Science Fiction | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
53 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
54 | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Technohorror: Inventions in Terror | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
56 | The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
57 | A Century of Great Suspense Stories | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
58 | In the Shadow of the Master | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
59 | The Future Dictionary of America | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
60 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Transgressions | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Transgressions, Vol. 2 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
63 | Dancing with the Dark | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
64 | The Dead That Walk | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
65 | A Book of Horrors | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
66 | Crucified Dreams | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Rage Against the Night | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Turn Down the Lights | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
70 | Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Chiral Mad 3 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
72 | Six Scary Stories | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
73 | Grave Predictions | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
74 | The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
75 | In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
76 | Detours | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
77 | You, Human | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
78 | Flight or Fright | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
79 | It Came From The Garage!: An Anthology of Automotive Horror | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
80 | Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
81 | Dark Tides | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
82 | McSweeney's Issue 66 | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
83 | Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
84 | Chiral Mad 5 | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Born in September 1947 in Portland, Maine, Stephen Edwin King, started his education at Durham Elementary School, followed by Lisbon Falls High School, which is where he cultivated his interested in the horror genre. With his love of horror growing, King ended up attending the University of Maine, where he studied English.
With his burgeoning interest in horror fiction and now his background in English, as well as the writing that he had started out doing whilst at school, the path that Stephen King’s career took was of no shock. It only took three years, after graduating in 1970, for King to have his first feature-length novel published, which was the now infamous Carrie, about a young girl with psychic powers who is ostracised at school for not fitting in. Due to the success of the book itself, Carrie was also made into a film, starring Sissy Spacek.
King followed up Carrie with Salem’s Lot, and then The Shining, both of which were turned into films, but The Shining, both the book and the film, are seen as one of King’s greatest pieces of fiction. King’s work continued to be critically acclaimed, as well as achieving great commercial success, as well as many having film or television adaptations made of them, due to the ever increasing popularity of King’s work. The much-loved Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman is an adaptation of a short story written by King, and The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks, is an adaptation of King’s work.
As well as writing under his own name, King has also released work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The novels released under the Bachman pseudonym tend to be shorter than King’s normal verbose pieces of work, and included works such as The Running Man, and Thinner. King claimed he did it as an exercise in trying to mimic his previous success under a new name.
Stephen King isn’t exactly known for series. Starting with Carrie (which was published in 1974), Salem’s Lot (1975), The Shining and the Rage, all the way to more recent works like Joyland, Revival, and End of Watch, most of Stephen King’s novels are standalone books.
There have been a few exceptions, the most prominent being The Dark Tower’. The first volume in the series, The Gunslinger, was little more than a collection of short stories that King wrote in the 1970s and 1980s, stories that were only amalgamated to form the first Dark Tower Volume in 2002.
Several other volumes have been published since.
Stephen King Awards:
As the master of horror, Stephen King is no stranger to accolades, having won numerous awards during his illustrious career, the most prominent of which include a Life Time Achievement Award in 2004, US Magazine 1982: Best Fiction Writer of the Year, the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Mr. Mercedes (which was published in 2015), and the international author award in 2004 to mention but a few.
Stephen King Books into Movies
More of Stephen King’s novels have been adapted into movies than most authors in any genre could possibly dream of. King has highlighted The Mist and The Shawshank Redemption as being his favorite film adaptations of his novels.
Movies like Pet Sematary, The Stand, The Shining, and Rose Red to mention but a few, all adapted from Stephen King’s works, continue to impact cinema goers to this very day. While some of these films have come under criticism for their unfaithful adaptation of King’s work, it is clear that Stephen King is, none the less, a favorite among Hollywood movie producers.
In 2017, King saw his biggest ever box office success as IT blew away the Green Mile to become his most successful adaptation ever. The Green Mile had a box office total of $136 million while IT would gross over $326 million.
2017 also saw what could be considered his biggest flop at the box office. The Dark Tower was intended to be a major franchise going forward in both film and television, but it wasn’t well received by critics and audiences alike. While the movie could be considered a financial success thanks to its overseas gross, the movie only made $50.7 million in the US and Canada against a $60 million production budget.
The TV series is still in production and is expected to be a complete reboot from what we saw on the big screen. Glen Mazzara from The Walking Dead fame is on board as executive producer with the first season expected to come in between 10-13 episodes.
The streaming era has been very good to Stephen King adaptations as Gerald’s Game and 1922 were both released on Netflix in 2017. He’s also seen 11.22.63 adapted for Hulu with Castle Rock coming as a series on Hulu as well. Under the Dome, The Mist and Mr. Mercedes have all been adapted into television series over the past few years as well.
Best Stephen King Books
It is rather difficult to sieve through Stephen King’s impressive body of work, though these two books tend to stand out:
IT: This is one of Stephen King’s most popular works. Published in 1986, the book follows seven children (the so-called misfits) that must face the terror of a vicious creature that can exploit the deepest darkest fears and phobias of its targets. Told from two different timelines, IT’ is the very manifestation of what has made Stephen King so popular, bringing to the fro childhood trauma and the darkness that is often hiding beneath the sunny disposition of many a small town.
IT was adapted into a highly popular two-part Television movie decades ago. The novel is in the process of receiving another bigger budget movie adaptation. King received the British Fantasy Award in 1987 for his work on this novel, this along with being nominated for the World Fantasy award.
IT ranked high on the list of best-selling books in the year that it was published.
The Shining: The Shining is currently a staple in most people’s book libraries. A masterpiece of fictional horror, The Shining was published in 1977. Only King’s third novel at the time, the book centers on Jack Torrance, a writer whose decision to become the caretaker of a hotel in Colorado Rockies visits all manner of horrors upon his family.
The Shining was influenced by many of Stephen King’s own personal experiences. It was adapted into a movie in 1980 that has since become a cult classic and is currently considered recommended viewing for any student of film.
King has admitted to being influenced by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson in crafting The Shining. The novel was nominated for the Locus award in 1978. Many consider the novel to be King’s best book. Digging into Stephen King’s own psyche, The Shining highlighted King’s particularly morbid approach to storytelling, the depths to which he sunk Jack Torrance and his family manifesting the sadistic elements that have since become commonplace in King’s work.
Stephen King FAQs
Q: Where was Stephen King born?
A: The author Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine. That part of the world, Maine, tends to feature a lot in Stephen King’s works, although many of the towns King creates are fiction, but based on places King knows.
Q: What was the first book published by Stephen King?
A: The first book written by Stephen King to be published was Carrie, which was released in 1973. Carrie has since been adapted into three movies, a TV movie and even a stage Broadway musical.
When Does The Next Stephen King book come out?
Stephen King doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Fairy Tale and was released on September, 6th 2022.
I love Stephen King’s novels! I really love it when they’re made into mini-series!!!! What a fantasticly twisted mind! LOL! Keep putting pen to paper dear friend! I can’t wait for more! Blessings to he and Tabitha… 💜🙏💜
Stephen King is by far my absolute favorite author. I have read many of his books, however I only collect his Hard Back Books. I have travelled to Maine to see if I could meet King but that didn’t happen. Who knows maybe one day. One of my favorite books is Insomnia, now reading it for my 4th time. All of Kings books are not horror but well put together mind catching readings. I have to be his Number One Fan.
How have I been sleeping on Stephen King?! I knew he had a lot of books but for some reason, I never knew there were this many! I recently read Carrie and couldn’t put it down, and I must admit, I’m really excited to read a lot of his other works. I’m not sure if I should wait until Halloween time though? Or is that too cheesy??