Stephen King bibliography
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This Stephen King bibliography is a list of books written by Stephen King, including collections, ebooks, and comic books. For individual shorter works, see Short fiction by Stephen King.
Contents |
[edit] Complete list of works in chronological order
| Title | Year | Genre | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Aftermath | 1963 | 200pp | unpublished | |
| The 50,000 word manuscript describes life after a nuclear war. Written at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. | ||||
| Carrie | 1974 | Horror | 199pp | |
| The book uses fictional documents, such as book excerpts, news reports, and hearing transcripts, to frame the story of Carietta "Carrie" White, a teenage girl from Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a fanatical Christian fundamentalist, has a vindictive and unstable personality, and over the years has ruled Carrie with a proverbial rod of iron. | ||||
| 'Salem's Lot | 1975 | Horror | 439pp | + |
| Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the (fictional) town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Cumberland County, Maine (or “The Lot”, as the locals call it), has returned home following the death of his wife. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate. | ||||
| Rage | 1977 | Horror | As Richard Bachman | |
| The narrator, Charlie Decker, a high school senior, details how he had long been fighting his growing rage against the authority figures which populate his world. He finally snapped and hit one of his teachers with a heavy wrench he had taken to carrying in his pocket; after much wrangling and discussion, the incident was dropped and he was allowed to return to school. | ||||
| The Shining | 1977 | Horror | 447pp | |
| Jack Torrance is a temperamental writer who is trying to rebuild his life (and his family's) after his alcoholism and volatile temper cause him to lose his teaching position at a prestigious New England preparatory school. Having given up drinking, he accepts a job as a winter caretaker at a large, isolated Colorado resort hotel with a gory history. | ||||
| Night Shift | 1978 | Horror | 368pp | Short stories |
| "Jerusalem's Lot", "Graveyard Shift", "Night Surf", "I Am the Doorway", "The Mangler", "The Boogeyman", "Gray Matter", "Battleground", "Trucks", "Sometimes They Come Back", "Strawberry Spring", "The Ledge", "The Lawnmower Man", "Quitters, Inc.", "I Know What You Need", "Children of the Corn", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", "The Man Who Loved Flowers", "One for the Road", "The Woman in the Room" | ||||
| The Stand | 1978 | Horror | 823pp | original, edited version |
| A post-apocalyptic science fiction / horror / adventure novel. It re-works the scenario in King’s earlier short story, "Night Surf". It is widely hailed by critics and fans as one of his best novels. | ||||
| The Dead Zone | 1979 | Horror | 402pp | |
| Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident and enters a coma for nearly five years. When he emerges, he can see horrifying secrets, but he cannot identify all the details because of an area of his brain being dead. | ||||
| The Long Walk | 1979 | Horror | 384pp | As Richard Bachman |
| One hundred teenage boys (picked at random from a large pool of applicants) are chosen to participate in an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk". Each walker must maintain a constant speed of no less than four miles an hour or risk being shot by soldiers monitoring the event. | ||||
| Firestarter | 1980 | Horror | 416pp | |
| The title character of Firestarter is Charlene "Charlie" McGee, a young girl with pyrokinesis — the ability to create fire with the power of her mind, along with other psychic powers. Charlie is a mutant; she was born with her pyrokinetic talent due to her parents' involvement in an experimental drug trial in college. | ||||
| Cujo | 1981 | Horror | 320pp | |
| The book tells the story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock, Maine. Marital and financial difficulties of the mundane sort plague disgraced advertising man Vic Trenton and his adulterous wife Donna. Their domestic problems are dwarfed by the mortal danger when Donna and her four-year-old son Tad are terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard named Cujo. | ||||
| Roadwork | 1981 | Horror | As Richard Bachman | |
| The story takes place in an unnamed city in the 1970s. Barton George Dawes, grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, is driven off the deep end when he finds that both his home and his business are going to be condemned and demolished to make way for the construction of a new interstate highway. | ||||
| Danse Macabre | 1981 | Horror | 400pp | nonfiction |
| Danse Macabre examines the various influences on King's own writing, and important genre texts of the 20th century. Focusing on horror and suspense films, comic books, old time radio, television and fiction from a fan's perspective, King peppers his book with informal academic insight, discussing archetypes, important authors, common narrative devices, "the psychology of terror", and his key theory of "Dionysian horror." | ||||
| The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger | 1982 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | 224pp | + |
| The story centers upon "the gunslinger", who has been chasing after his adversary, "the man in black", for many years. Chronicled is the gunslinger's quest through a large desert, and then a mountain, in search of the man. | ||||
| Different Seasons | 1982 | Horror | Short stories | |
| Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Hope Springs Eternal, Apt Pupil: Summer of Corruption, The Body: Fall From Innocence, The Breathing Method: A Winter's Tale | ||||
| The Running Man | 1982 | Horror, science-fiction | 214pp | As Richard Bachman |
| Ben Richards needs money to get medicine for his gravely ill daughter Cathy. Not wanting his wife Sheila to continue prostitution to pay the bills, Richards turns to the Games Federation. After rigorous testing, both physical and mental, Richards is selected for the most popular game, The Running Man. | ||||
| Creepshow | 1982 | Horror | illustrated by Bernie Wrightson | |
| A comic book adaptation of the classic anthology horror movie. | ||||
| Christine | 1983 | Horror | 503pp | |
| The story revolves around teenage nerd Arnie Cunningham and his 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury, dubbed "Christine" by the previous owner. The story is set in Libertyville (supposedly a suburb of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania between the summer of 1978 and the spring of 1979. | ||||
| Pet Sematary | 1983 | Horror | 416pp | |
| Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel and their two young children. From the moment they arrive the family runs into trouble but fortunately their new neighbor, Jud Crandall, is there to help. He warns them about the highway that runs past their house; it is constantly used by big trucks. | ||||
| Cycle of the Werewolf | 1983 | Horror | 127pp | Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson |
| Set in the fictional small town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, a werewolf is viciously killing people and animals and strange incidents takes place every full moon. Marty Coslaw, an eleven-year-old boy in a wheelchair, goes back and forth from the terrifying incidents to his normal day-to-day life. | ||||
| The Cannibals (also called Under the Dome) | 1983 | Horror | about 450pp | unpublished, likely unfinished [1] |
| The Talisman | 1984 | Horror | 672pp | co-author Peter Straub |
| This book charts the adventure of a twelve year old boy named Jack Sawyer. The young hero sets out from the East Coast of the USA in a bid to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding an artifact called 'The Talisman'. | ||||
| Thinner | 1984 | Horror | 309pp | As Richard Bachman |
| An obese lawyer named William "Billy" Halleck who has just been through an agonizing court case in which he was charged with vehicular manslaughter after receiving a handjob from his wife Heidi while driving, causing him to run over an old woman who was part of a group of traveling Gypsies. Halleck is acquitted thanks to the judge, who happens to be a close friend of Billy's. As Halleck leaves the courthouse, the old woman's ancient father strokes his cheeks and whispers one word to him: "Thinner." | ||||
| Skeleton Crew | 1985 | Horror | pp | Short stories |
| The Mist, "Here There Be Tygers", "The Monkey", "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut", "The Jaunt", "The Wedding Gig", "Paranoid: A Chant", "The Raft", "Word Processor of the Gods", "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands", "Beachworld", "Nona", "For Owen", "Survivor Type", "Uncle Otto's Truck", "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)", "Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2)", "Gramma", The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet, "The Reach" | ||||
| The Bachman Books | 1985 | Horror | selected works as Richard Bachman | |
| Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man | ||||
| It | 1986 | Horror | 1142pp | |
| "It" takes place in two separate time periods: In 1985, when the book was first published, and the main characters are adults, and in 1958, when they are eleven years old. The seven self-proclaimed members of the "Losers' Club" are united in seeking refuge from a gang of bullies led by Henry Bowers. The children each individually discover the existence of a terrifying, child-murdering, shape-changing monster | ||||
| The Eyes of the Dragon | 1987 | Fantasy | 384pp | |
| This book is a work of classic fantasy with a clearly established battle between good and evil and magic playing a lead role. It is told from the perspective of an unnamed story-teller, who speaks casually and frankly to the reader, frequently adding his own commentary on character's motivations. | ||||
| Misery | 1987 | Horror | ||
| Paul Sheldon is the author of a best-selling series of romance novels featuring the Victorian-era heroine Misery Chastain. Paul is rescued from the car wreck by a woman named Annie Wilkes, an experienced nurse who lives nearby. She feeds and bathes him and splints his broken legs. Annie reads his new manuscript and doesn't like it, believing that there is too much use of profanity. | ||||
| The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three | 1987 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | 399pp | + |
| This story is the continuation of The Gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, and his quest towards the Dark Tower. The book begins with Roland waking up from unconsciousness on a beach where he is suddenly attacked by a strange lobster-like creature, dubbed "lobstrosities." He manages to kill the creature but not before losing the index and middle finger of his right hand, and most of his right big toe. | ||||
| The Tommyknockers | 1988 | Horror | 558pp | |
| While maintaining a horror style, the novel is more of an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods. | ||||
| Nightmares in the Sky | 1988 | nonfiction | photos by f-stop fitzgerald | |
| A coffee table book about architectural gargoyles with text by King. | ||||
| The Dark Half | 1989 | Horror | 448pp | |
| Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic who lives in the tiny Maine town of Ludlow (the setting of Pet Sematary and about an hour away from the fictional town of Castle Rock, often used in King's novels). His own books are not very successful, but under the pen name George Stark, Thad writes gritty crime novels about a violent killer named Alexis Machine, which are very popular and successful. | ||||
| Dolan's Cadillac | 1989 | Horror | Limited edition | |
| Robinson finds himself a childless widower when Dolan, a wealthy crime-boss, has Robinson's wife murdered in order to prevent her from testifying against him. Robinson, unskilled in the arts of revenge, has no recourse. | ||||
| My Pretty Pony | 1989 | Horror | Limited edition | |
| An elderly man, his death rapidly approaching, takes his young grandson up onto a hill behind his house and gives the boy his pocketwatch. Standing among falling apple blossoms, the man also gives instruction on the nature of time. | ||||
| The Stand The Complete & Uncut Edition |
1990 | Horror | 1168pp | + |
| The Stand is a post-apocalyptic science fiction / horror / adventure novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. It re-works the scenario in King’s earlier short story, "Night Surf" (included in the short story collection Night Shift). It is widely hailed by critics and fans as one of his best novels. | ||||
| Four Past Midnight | 1990 | Horror | 804pp | Short stories |
| The Langoliers, Secret Window, Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, The Sun Dog | ||||
| Needful Things | 1990 | Horror | 792pp | |
| Set in the small fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, a new shop named "Needful Things" opens, to the curiosity of the townspeople. One by one, they start to come into the shop, drawn there by something they want more than anything else. | ||||
| The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands | 1991 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | pp | + |
| Gerald's Game | 1992 | Horror | pp | |
| Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald are simply trying to spice up their sex life with a little bondage game. But the game turns into a nightmare for Jessie, handcuffed to the bedposts and forced to face her deepest fears. | ||||
| Dolores Claiborne | 1993 | Horror | pp | |
| Dolores Claiborne decides to tell the truth when her longtime employer, Vera Donovan, dies under suspicious circumstances. Including the mysterious death of her husband during a solar eclipse thirty years before. | ||||
| Nightmares & Dreamscapes | 1993 | Horror | pp | Short stories |
| "Dolan's Cadillac", "The End of the Whole Mess", "Suffer the Little Children", "The Night Flier", "Popsy", "It Grows on You", "Chattery Teeth", "Dedication", "The Moving Finger", "Sneakers", "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band", "Home Delivery", "Rainy Season", "My Pretty Pony", "Sorry, Right Number", "The Ten O'Clock People", "Crouch End", "The House on Maple Street", "The Fifth Quarter", "The Doctor's Case", "Umney's Last Case", "Head Down", "Brooklyn August", "The Beggar and the Diamond" | ||||
| Insomnia | 1994 | Horror | pp | + |
| Set in Derry, Maine, this novel features Ralph Roberts, who falls victim to insomnia, which gives him the remarkable ability to see visions of his fellow townspeople turning into demons. He knows he's not dreaming. He knows he's not crazy, because someone else sees what he sees. But knowing doesn't tell him how to stop the visions coming true. | ||||
| Rose Madder | 1995 | Horror | pp | + |
| Rose Daniels has been dreaming away her life. One single drop of blood is enough to rouse her from her sleep, and sends her on a journey hundreds of miles away from her abusive cop husband, Norman. She begins to find happiness in her new home, until Norman figures out where she is. | ||||
| Umney's Last Case | 1995 | Horror | pp | |
| The Green Mile | 1996 | Horror | pp | Originally published as a monthly serial consisting of six parts: The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse on the Mile, Coffey's Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey, and Coffey on the Mile |
| The Green Mile is Cold Mountain Penitentiary's Death Row. Paul Edgecombe has seen many men come and go through E Block, but none quite like John Coffey. The giant, sentenced to death for a horrifying crime, reveals a fascinating truth to Paul, shaking the very foundations of his world. | ||||
| Desperation | 1996 | Horror | pp | + |
| The Regulators | 1996 | Horror | pp | As Richard Bachman + |
| Six Stories | 1997 | Horror | pp | Short stories |
| The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass | 1997 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | pp | + |
| Bag of Bones | 1998 | Horror | pp | + |
| Storm of the Century | 1999 | Horror | pp | |
| The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | 1999 | Horror | pp | |
| The New Lieutenant's Rap | 1999 | Horror | pp | Limited edition |
| Hearts in Atlantis | 1999 | Horror | pp | + |
| "Low Men in Yellow Coats", "Hearts in Atlantis", "Blind Willie", "Why We're in Vietnam", "Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling" | ||||
| Blood and Smoke | 2000 | Horror | audio book | |
| Stephen King reads three of his own short stories. All the stories in Blood and Smoke are about smoking in one way or the other. | ||||
| The Plant Book 1-Zenith Rising |
2000 | Horror | ebook, unfinished | |
| The first part was put on his web site for anyone to download. The last installment was published on December 18, 2000. The book was never completed. | ||||
| On Writing A Memoir of the Craft |
2000 | nonfiction | ||
| A book about the prolific author's experiences as a writer. Although he discusses several of his books, one doesn't need to have read them or even be familiar with them. | ||||
| Secret Windows Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing |
2000 | nonfiction | both fiction and non-fiction | |
| A collection of stories and essays that are primarily concerned with writing and the horror genre. Several of the entries have been published elsewhere, including introductions for other authors' novels. | ||||
| Dreamcatcher | 2001 | Horror | pp | |
| Black House | 2001 | Horror | pp | Sequel to The Talisman Written with Peter Straub + |
| From a Buick 8 | 2002 | Horror | pp | + |
| When a mysterious vehicle is left at a Pennsylvania gas station, it becomes the property of Troop D. Officers soon realize this is no ordinary car. The steering wheel doesn't move, the buttons and knobs on the dashboard can't be pushed or turned, and it can't even be started. They realize there is much more to the car than it seems, as the horror unfolds through two decades of day-to-day Troop D life. | ||||
| Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales | 2002 | Horror | pp | Short stories + |
| The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger | 2003 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | pp | Revised edition + |
| The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | 2003 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | pp | + |
| The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah | 2004 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | pp | + |
| The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | 2004 | Horror, fantasy, western, science-fiction | pp | + |
| The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | 2004 | Horror | pp | Pop-up book version |
| Patricia "Trisha" McFarland, a Red Sox fan, gets lost in the woods during a camping trip toilet break. As the days pass, she wanders deeper and deeper into the impregnable forest, home to the God of the Lost. To comfort and guide her, her idol, Tom Gordon, a Red Sox player, occasionally speaks to her through her walkman. | ||||
| Faithful Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season |
2005 | nonfiction, baseball | 432pp | co-written with Stewart O'Nan |
| Chronicled exchanges between King and O'Nan about the Red Sox's upcoming 2004 season, beginning with an e-mail in summer 2003, and throughout the 2004 season, from Spring Training to the World Series. | ||||
| The Colorado Kid | 2005 | Mystery | pp | |
| Cell | 2006 | Horror | 350pp | |
| Clayton Riddell is in Boston to sell his comic books when something horrifying happens. Anyone who uses a cell phone becomes insane and violent, attacking anyone around them. Clay must, with the help of survivors Tom and Alice, return to Maine to find out if his wife and young son are among the survivors or the monsters. | ||||
| Lisey's Story | 2006 | Horror, Romance | pp | |
| Widow Lisey Landon has finally gotten around to cleaning out her dead writer husband's study. The cleaning stirs up old memories, many of which she has blocked out and fights to keep blocked. But those memories become vitally important as her life is threatened. She must use every ounce of courage and willpower to go "beyond the purple" and remember. | ||||
| Stationary Bike | 2006 | Horror | audiobook | Read by Ron MacLarty |
| The story depicts the struggle of Richard Sifkitz — a commercial artist and widower — to suppress a passion for consuming unhealthy foods by using a stationary bike. Originally published in the fifth edition of From the Borderlands in 2003. | ||||
| The Secretary of Dreams: Volume 1 | 2006 | Horror, comic | illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne | |
| A graphic short story collection. | ||||
| Blaze | 2007 | Horror | pp | As Richard Bachman |
| The story concerns Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. (known as "Blaze" for short, thus the title), a mentally challenged small-time con artist who kidnaps a millionaire's infant child, in the hopes of fulfilling the dreams of George, Blaze's deceased best friend and partner in crime. | ||||
| Duma Key | 2008 | Horror | pp | |
[edit] Novels and short fiction collections
- Note: + denotes a book is related to The Dark Tower series, either in characters, places, or events, or, as in the case of the short story collections, a story or two.
[edit] Non-fiction
- 1981 Danse Macabre
- 1988 Nightmares in the Sky (gargoyle photo book with text by King; photos by f-stop fitzgerald)
- 2000 Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (contains both fiction and non-fiction)
- 2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- 2005 Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (cowritten with Stewart O'Nan)
[edit] Original audiobooks
- 2000 Blood and Smoke (audio book)
- 2006 Stationary Bike (audio-book)
[edit] Original ebooks
- 2000 Riding the Bullet
- 2000 The Plant: Book 1-Zenith Rising
[edit] Comics
- 1982 Creepshow (comic book, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
- 2006 The Secretary of Dreams: Volume 1 (a limited edition in two volumes, the second to be released in the second half of 2008)
- 2007 The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born - 7 issues (monthly comic book series, pencilled by Jae Lee, released by Marvel Comics starting in February, 2007 onward)
- 2008 The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home - 5 issues (monthly comic book series, pencilled by Jae Lee, released by Marvel Comics)
[edit] Unpublished work
- 1959 Charlie (unpublished short story)
- 1960 People, Places and Things (unpublished short story collection)
- 1963 The Aftermath (unpublished novel)
- 1970 Sword in the Darkness (unpublished novel)
- 1974 The House on Value Street (unpublished and unfinished)
- 1976 Welcome to Clearwater (unpublished and unfinished)
- 1976 The Corner (unpublished and unfinished)
- 1977 Wimsey (unpublished and unfinished)
- 1983 The Leprechaun (unpublished and unfinished)
- 1983 The Cannibals (aka Under the Dome) (unpublished, likely unfinished)
- 1984 Keyholes (unpublished and unfinished)
