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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels.

His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books.

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The following is a complete list of books published by Stephen King, an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books.

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Stephen King has written over 49 full length novels, 7 pen named books, 5 non-fiction texts and 5 short story collections.

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Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors alive, known for writing horror, fantasy, and psychological thrillers. His books have sold more than 350 million copies. Here's some background on the Maine-based writer and a bibliography, featuring details about some of his most notable works.

From 'Carrie' to 'Misery' (1960-1985)

King graduated from the University of Maine in 1970 but did not sell his first novel, "Carrie," until 1974. Here's a look at his work both before and during college.

From 'Misery' to 'The Green Mile' (1987-1995)

From 'The Green Mile' and Beyond

1996: "The Green Mile" was 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." In 2000, "The Green Mile" was adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Duncan was nominated Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of doomed but gentle psychic John Coffey.

1996: "Desperation"

1997: "Six Stories" (collection of stories)

1997: "The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass"

1998: "Bag of Bones"

1999: "Storm of the Century" (television miniseries written by King)

1999: "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"

1999: "The New Lieutenant's Rap" (limited edition short story)

1999: "Hearts in Atlantis" (collection of novellas and short stories)

1999: "Blood and Smoke" (audiobook of three short stories narrated by King)

2000: "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" (memoir)

2001: "Dreamcatcher"

2001: "Black House" (written with Peter Straub)

2002: "From a Buick 8"

2002: "Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales" (collection of short stories)

2003: "The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger" (revised edition)

2003: "The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla"

2004: "The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah"

2004: "The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower"

2004: "Faithful." King and co-author Stewart O'Nan began writing their book with no inkling that the long-suffering Red Sox would finally win the World Series after an 86-year drought. It changed the ending they had originally planned.

2005: "The Colorado Kid"

2006: "The Secretary of Dreams" (series of graphic short story collections authored by King)

2006: "Cell"

2006: "Lisey's Story"

2007: "The Mist" (republished)

2008: "Duma Key"

2009: "Stephen King Goes to the Movies" (collection of short stories)

2009: The Little Sisters of Eluria (limited edition in connection with "The Dark Tower" series)

2009: "Graduation Afternoon" (short story published in the magazine "PostScripts")

2009: "Throttle" (novella written with King's son, Joe Hill)

2009: "Under the Dome." A television show based on the book ran from 2013-2015.

2010: Full Dark, No Stars (collection of novellas including "1922," "Big Driver," "Fair Extension," and "A Good Marriage.")

2011: "The Dune" (short story published in the magazine "Granta")

2011: "11/22/63"

2012: "The Dark Tower VIII: The Wind Through the Keyhole"

2013: "Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All" (co-written with other authors in King's "author rock band")

2013: "Joyland"

2013: "The Dark Man" (poem)

2013: "Doctor Sleep"

2014: "Revival"

2014: "Mr. Mercedes"

2015: "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" (collection of short stories)

2015: "Finders Keepers"

2016: "End of Watch"

2017: "Sleeping Beauties" (co-written with King's son, Owen King)

2018: "The Outsider"

2018: "Elevation" (novella)

2019: "The Institute"

More of King's Short Stories, Essays, Online Publications, and Novellas

Richard Bachman's Published Books

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, King wanted to write more than one book per year, but his publishers were concerned about over-saturating the market. He also wanted to know if his books were successful only because he had achieved some level of fame; that is, were they best-sellers because they were high-quality books or only because people wanted to read the latest "Stephen King?"

So King invented the alter-ego of Richard Bachman and released four works under that pseudonym: "Rage" (1977), "The Long Walk" (1979), "Roadwork" (1981), and "The Running Man" (1982) before he was discovered. He wrote several additional works as Bachman though, including "Thinner" (1984), "The Regulators" (1996), and "Blaze" (2007).

Stephen King's Unpublished Books and Stories

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It has been four decades since Stephen King wrote The Stand, his acclaimed novel about a deadly influenza pandemic wiping out most of human civilization.

So the bestselling contemporary horror novelist has difficulty understanding why authorities did not see the coronavirus crisis coming, or take the necessary precautionary steps.

"Just in the last three or four weeks people are saying to me, 'We are living in a Stephen King world,' and boy, all I can say is I wish we weren't," King, who has sold an estimated 350m books worldwide, told CNN.

"This has been waiting in the wings for a long, long time. I wrote The Stand about a pandemic that wipes out most of the human race, and thank God this one isn't that bad, but I wrote that in 1979 and ever since then this has just been waiting to happen.

"The fact that nobody really seemed prepared still mystifies me."

King has been outspoken in his criticism of Donald Trump's reaction to the crisis. On Sunday he added Ron DeSantis, the Republican Florida governor, to his list of leaders he believes have underperformed. DeSantis has been under fire for not enacting a statewide shelter-in-place order and for allowing beaches to remain open, placing hordes of spring breakers at risk of infection.

"It's almost impossible to comprehend," King said. "I remember back in the 70s when Republicans laughed at Jimmy Carter as being indecisive and wishy-washy.

"The president we have now, and Ron DeSantis here in Florida, these are supposed to be go-to-it guys, the guy you want in charge when something really goes wrong because they don't waffle, they don't wishy-washy."

King, who has homes in Maine and Florida, continued: "You had Trump at first saying, 'This isn't really very serious, don't worry, everything's going to be OK,' then when the stock market starts to die, when the reality of the thing hits home, he's talking about, 'Well, take it easy. This thing is going to be like a miracle, everything's going to be OK by Easter and we'll have the churches full.'

"And then a couple of days later he talks about a quarantine. [New York governor] Andrew Cuomo didn't know about it, nobody really seemed to know, it just came out of his head."

DeSantis, a fervent supporter of the president, is following suit, King believes: "I'm not sure he's ahead of the curve, I think he's somewhere behind it. This whole situation is a little bit like the barn door has been locked but the horse was stolen, I'm going to say, 10 days ago."

The author did have some good news for fans. Publication of his next book, If It Bleeds, has been brought forward two weeks to 28 April, to entertain self-isolating readers sooner.

King noted that the new publication date would be the same as his fellow bestselling author John Grisham's new novel, Camino Winds.

"I want to talk to the publisher about maybe doing a two-for-one," he said. "Wouldn't that be cool, a double feature?"

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King's new book might remind you of Netflix's 'Stranger Things', but he has been writing about psychic children and conspiracies since the Sixties

There's no question about it: Stephen King is a past master at casting an eerie shade on familiar fictional materials. His new book, The Institute, concerns a sinister government facility, operational since the Second World War. Hidden in the depths of the American forest, the organisation known as "the Institute" sends out special forces to kidnap children (having first dispatched their families), and subjects them to all kinds of horrific tests in order to bring out their developing psychic powers.

If you are now thinking of the recent Netflix show Stranger Things, don't forget that King got there first: he's been writing about psychic children and conspiracies since the Sixties. There's even a sense here that he's having fun. Among the youngsters in the Institute are a pair of girl twins, which are reminiscent of the characters of "some old horror movie".

King is supreme at crafting the building blocks of a story and laying them together in a slick, teasing and apparently simple way. But there is also a wealth of political references: libraries not getting enough cash; the military-industrial complex and some of its dodgier moments such as waterboarding; as well as the Trump administration (at which there are many digs, some sly, some less so).

We begin with Tim, an all-American hero loner ex-cop - a type, to be sure, but given depth, thoughtfulness and a quick intelligence that sets him apart. He's lost his job thanks to a freak occurrence, which turns out to be one of the major themes: is an event the result of pure chance, or is it somehow destined? The bulk of the story, however, takes place in the dirty, grey, sinister Institute itself, and from the perspective of 12-year-old Luke Ellis.

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Supremely bright, Luke was on his way to matriculating at two universities at once. He learns, and needs to learn, in order to keep his distance from a terrifying abyss he can sense inside him. This is one of the many destabilising images that King sneaks in, catching you off-guard. If there is a fault here, it's that this dizzying sense of encroaching chaos isn't fully explored.

Soon Luke is snatched away by the goons of the Institute. King preys on deep fears: Luke wakes up in a place that's been decked out exactly like his bedroom at home, only without a window. That is a powerful childhood terror: to wake up somewhere familiar, and for it to be somewhere utterly other, the domestic rendered alien. Here, Luke finds several children in the same predicament. They are told they are heroes, helping to save the world; but they are tortured until they burn out.

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The Institute isn't overly violent or shlocky, as some of King's books can tend to be. In many ways, especially with Luke as its protagonist, it could almost be young adult fiction, particularly as it relies on the idea that children, when connected, are a powerful insurrectionary force. Nevertheless, there are deeply sinister scenes, such as one in the incinerating room, made even more creepy by the fact that a staff member likes to meditate there. Auschwitz is mentioned, and Luke makes comparisons between the staff, who blindly imagine they are doing the right thing, and those who went along with the Nazi regime.

Everything you would expect from King is here: eccentric background characters (the tramp who believes in government conspiracies, the 70-year-old secretary who's also handy with a gun, the doctor who's slowly going crazy thanks to over-exposure to telepaths); a sturdy, controlled plot; and a sense of the kind of bonkers, slant-wise imagination that gave us It and Pet Sematary. While not his best, The Institute still hums and crackles with delicious unease.

Stephen King's 'The Institute' is published by Hodder & Stoughton on 10 September, £10; Philip Womack's latest novel, 'The Arrow of Apollo', will be published in May 2020

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If there is one horror author that stands above the rest when it comes to success and popularity, it is Stephen King - the Master of Horror.

King got his start writing short stories for magazines and tried to make a living through those and a teacher's salary until he finally sold his first novel, Carrie, and it was an instant hit when released in 1974.

Since that time, King has published 61 novels, countless short stories, several novellas, and watched many of his books turned into movies and TV shows.

It is clear why he is The Master of Horror, as his books have sold upward of 350 million copies.

With such an extensive library of books, here are 15 of his best novels for fans wanting to start reading Stephen King for the first time, ranked.

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15. End of Watch

Fans have had a chance to catch up with some of the Bill Hodges' stories in the series Mr. Mercedes on the now-dead AT&T Audience network.

The books in the series included Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch. The book listed here is the third book in the series, which is the best.

However, don't just read this one. You need to read all three books to make sense of it, but they are worth your time.

Bill Hodges is a former cop who had a case he never cracked concerning a man who murdered several people by running them down in a Mercedes. The first book sees the killer return to torment Hodges years after the officer's retirement.

End of Watch brings in some of King's supernatural storytelling, while the first book was more of a detective novel.

14. Night Shift

Stephen King got his start writing short stories, and the best selection of his stories is in the book Night Shift.

This is his first short story collection, published in 1978, and featuring some very famous stories thanks to the movies that came later.

These stories include The Mangler (the movie starred Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund), Trucks (which became the movie Maximum Overdrive), Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man (which is miles better than the movie adaptation), and Children of the Corn.

This book also contains several stories that were made into Dollar Baby Films, including the first two major adaptations for the program, The Boogeyman and The Woman in the Room. Frank Darabont directed the latter film before he went on to make the big-screen movie The Shawshank Redemption.

13. The Talisman

In 1984, Stephen King teamed up with another horror/fantasy author in Peter Straub to write the novel The Talisman.

The story is about a boy named Jack Sawyer, who wants to save his mother, who is dying from cancer. He learns he can do this if he finds a crystal known as the Talisman.

This leads him to an alternate Earth, known as the Territories, where everyone has a "twinner," or another version of themself. For fans of the Dark Tower, this ties in as he meets the twinner of a Gunslinger. There are also werewolves in the Territories.

There was a sequel published 17 years later by King and Straub called Black House. King also said they have plans for a third novel in the series.

12. Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary is one of Stephen King's most disturbing, bleak, and nihilistic works of fiction.

Anyone who has seen the movies knows how this story goes, as a family moves to a remote house only to see their young son, Gage, walk into the street and end up struck dead by a passing semi-truck.

However, Louis Creed learns of a pet cemetery in the woods that brings creatures back to life and, in his time of grief, buries his son in the cemetery. However, when Gage comes back, he is different, and Louis realizes he made a dire mistake.

11. Different Seasons

While Stephen King has several collections of his short fiction, Different Seasons is a different beast.

This is not a collection of short stories, but four novellas, each based on one of the four seasons. Three of these stories became movies, including one that might be the best King adaptation of all-time.

The first novella is Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. This tells the story of a man found guilty of killing his wife and her lover when he catches them cheating. Although innocent, he is sentenced to the Shawshank Redemption prison.

The second is Apt Pupil, which tells the story of a boy who learns that an elderly man in his neighborhood is a Nazi war criminal in hiding. Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro star in the movie based on the story.

The third story is The Body, which was turned into the brilliant coming-of-age movie Stand by Me.

The book wraps up with the horror tale, The Breathing Method.

10. The Green Mile

The Green Mile was Stephen King's most interesting release when it came out as a story.

Instead of releasing it as a novel, King had the idea to release it like the old days when serial novels hit stores at a low price, each ending with a cliffhanger, leading to the next book in the series.

There were six of the serial books released, one month apart from each other, leaving fans waiting for the next installment. It is now available as one book.

The story is of a man found guilty of a murder he never committed and sentenced to death, where he changes the prison guards' lives as he awaits his fate in the Green Mile on death row.

9. 11/22/63

In 2011, Stephen King released the novel 11/22/63, which was unlike anything he had written before.

This was a time-travel novel that featured a man named Jake Epping, a divorced high school teacher, who learns that a local restaurant owner has a door that takes a person back in time to September 9, 1958.

The man has been trying for years to prevent the assassination of John Kennedy. He passes the task on to Jake, as he is dying of cancer and has aged every time he spends time in the past.

Jake starts to make the trips back and has to decide if he wants to risk stopping the assassination and changing history as we know it.

8. 'Salem's Lot

'Salem's Lot was Stephen King's second novel, published in 1975.

This is a vampire story that follows Ben Mears, an author who arrives in the town of Jerusalem's Lot, to write his next book. However, he slowly learns something is going wrong in the town when a new man arrives named Richard Striker, and his employer, the never seen Kurt Barlow.

Of course, Barlow is a vampire, and soon he starts to infect the town and Mears has to figure out how to save those he has grown close to before it is too late.

7. The Dead Zone

Stephen King released The Dead Zone in 1979, his seventh novel.

The book follows Johnny Smith, a young man who has the power to touch someone and see something from the past or future following an accident where he suffered brain damage.

The book then shows him helping a local sheriff catch a serial killer using his gift. The problems arise when he touches a local politician and learns that he will one day become President of the United States and lead the world to a nuclear apocalypse.

The book was adapted into a movie by David Cronenberg and later into a successful television show.

6. Carrie

Stephen King's first novel made him an instant success.

However, it almost didn't happen. King threw his manuscript in the trash can when he thought it was no good, and his wife pulled it out, read it, and made him push on.

That book was Carrie.

Carrie tells the story of a teenage girl named Carrie White, who lives with her religious fanatic mother and is an outcast at school due to her mom's crazed teachings.

However, Carrie develops telekinesis, and as her abuse worsens, she decides one day to lash out at the world to a tragic conclusion.

5. Misery

In 1987, Stephen King published the horror novel Misery, partially in response to the crazed fan reactions to his stories and demands on his writing.

The book has a successful author named Paul Sheldon on a road trip when he is involved in a car accident.

When he comes to, he is in the house of a nurse named Anne Wilkes, who is nursing him back to health. However, she is also a crazed fan and has no intention of letting him leave until he writes the next book in his series the way that she wants.

The lengths she goes to in order to get this novel written is horrifying.

4. The Gunslinger

The Gunslinger might not be the best of the Dark Tower series, but it is where fans have to start at if they want to follow Roland's journey in search of the Dark Tower itself.

Roland is the last of the Gunslingers, searching for the Man in Black while on a quest for the Dark Tower. This takes place in a parallel universe to the real world - an Old West-style land where the world never moved on to the technologically advanced Earth we all know.

As the story moves on through the books, he finds companions that journey with him, as the stories tie in with many of King's other novels, bringing everything together in one giant world until the final book in the series, simply titled The Dark Tower.

3. The Shining

Stephen King wrote The Shining in 1977, the third novel of his career.

This book, unlike Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation, was a haunted house story. Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic, took his family to the Overlook Hotel to work as the caretaker over the long winter months, where it was closed down.

However, the longer the family is there, the more the Overlook gets its hooks into Jack, eventually taking over the man and turning him against his family.

There was also a sequel by King, written decades later called Doctor Sleep, based on Jack's now-grown son Danny.

2. It

In 1986, Stephen King wrote one of his most beloved novels, It.

The book took place in two time periods - the first in 1957-58, where a group of high school friends faced a terrifying serial killer - dealing with a clown named Pennywise who killed the children of the town of Derry.

The second time was 1984-85, where the kids were not adults and know that Pennywise is not a clown, but a demon that returns every 27 years to kill children in Derry. They all return to end the demon's existence once and for all.

A movie was made for TV in 1990 with Tim Curry as Pennywise. In 2017 and 2019, a two-part It movie series was released, this time in theaters.

1. The Stand

The best Stephen King novel of all-time is scarier today than it was when it was first released in 1978.

The Stand was King's fourth novel and told the story of a world that was destroyed by a flu-like disease that killed almost every human on the planet when the government failed to get control of the disease early.

This led to two groups forming in the United States - a group of survivors searching for Mother Abigail in Nebraska, a force representing good, and a group of survivors moving on to Las Vegas - and the cult-like figure of Randall Flagg, offering debauchery and evil.

The Stand ends up as good vs. evil as the two groups go to war for the survival of the planet.

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