Stephen King

Part memoir, part writing guide, Stephen King reflects on his life, his near-fatal accident, and the craft principles that have made him one of the most productive writers in American literature.

Four novellas connected by the turning of seasons, ranging from a prison escape to a boyhood journey to find a dead body, revealing Stephen King at his most literary and emotionally complex.

A death row corrections officer in 1930s Louisiana encounters a gentle giant with miraculous healing powers awaiting execution for a crime he may not have committed.

A high school teacher travels back to 1958 through a time portal with a mission to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Roland the Gunslinger, wounded and feverish on a beach between worlds, must draw three companions from our world through mysterious doors: Eddie Dean, a heroin addict from 1987 New York; Odetta Holmes, a woman with a fractured personality; and Jack Mort, a serial killer whose removal from his world has unforeseen consequences.

Roland's ka-tet journeys through a decaying post-apocalyptic landscape toward the city of Lud, where a murderous computer named Blaine the Mono issues riddles to all who would ride him out of the dying city. Jake Chambers returns to the group, but his paradoxical existence threatens to destroy Roland's mind.

After resolving the Blaine cliffhanger, Roland tells his ka-tet the story of his first quest at fourteen: his love affair with Susan Delgado in the town of Hambry, and the betrayal that shaped everything he became. A 600-page flashback that is simultaneously the longest and most essential Dark Tower novel.

A recovering alcoholic writer takes a winter caretaker job at a remote Colorado hotel where the building's evil history begins to consume his sanity and endanger his family.

A superflu kills 99% of the human population, and the survivors are drawn into a final confrontation between the forces of good and evil across the ruins of America.

Seven children in a small Maine town band together to fight an ancient evil that preys on their fears — and are called back as adults to finish what they started.

A bestselling novelist is nursed back to health by his self-proclaimed number one fan after a car accident, and discovers that his rescue has become his captivity.

A family moves to rural Maine and discovers a burial ground in the woods with the power to resurrect the dead — with devastating consequences.

Writer Ben Mears returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot to write a novel — and finds the town slowly dying. A vampire has taken up residence in the Marsten House, and the townspeople are becoming the undead one by one. King's second novel remains one of horror fiction's definitive vampire stories.

Roland Deschain reaches the Dark Tower at last. Every thread of the series converges: the Crimson King rages on the Tower's balcony, the Beams must be defended, Patrick Danville's strange gift is the key to everything, and the fates of every character in the ka-tet are decided. King includes a foreword warning readers that the destination may not be what they expect — a warning that has generated debate ever since.

Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, pursues the man in black across a vast desert in the first volume of Stephen King's magnum opus.

Johnny Smith wakes from a four-year coma to discover he has psychic powers — a touch reveals things about people and events. When he shakes the hand of a rising politician and sees a future of nuclear catastrophe, Johnny faces the most impossible moral question: is it right to kill one person to prevent mass destruction?

Children with telekinetic and telepathic abilities are abducted from their homes and taken to a facility in rural Maine called The Institute, where their gifts are exploited for purposes they cannot initially understand. Twelve-year-old Luke Ellis, gifted beyond any previous subject, becomes the unlikely center of a resistance.

A seemingly airtight case against a beloved teacher accused of murder begins to unravel when impossible evidence suggests someone — or something — else was responsible.

A hitman who only kills bad people takes one last job but finds himself entangled with an unexpected companion and a plot to destroy him.

A telekinetic teenage girl pushed to the breaking point by her fanatical mother and bullying classmates unleashes catastrophic revenge on her entire town.

A middle-aged Danny Torrance, now a hospice worker battling alcoholism, must protect a young girl with extraordinary psychic powers from a tribe of psychic vampires.

A teenage boy inherits a shed that contains a portal to a dark fairy-tale kingdom, and must enter it to save a world he barely understands.

A retired detective haunted by an unsolved massacre — a stolen Mercedes driven into a crowd of job-seekers — is taunted back into the hunt when the killer contacts him directly. Stephen King's Edgar Award-winning leap into the pure crime thriller.

A mysterious new shop opens in Castle Rock, Maine — and its proprietor offers every customer exactly what they desire, at a price that will destroy the town.

Stephen King's first published short story collection, gathering twenty tales of horror ranging from killer trucks and sentient machinery to possessed children and predatory creatures.

Set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla, the ka-tet takes shelter from a deadly storm called a starkblast. As they wait, Roland tells a story from his early days as a gunslinger, within which young Roland tells a fairy tale to a frightened boy. Three nested narratives — frame, memory, and fable — make this the series' most structurally playful and tonally gentle entry.

Roland and his ka-tet arrive at Calla Bryn Sturgis, a farming village terrorised by the Wolves — armoured riders who sweep in every generation to steal one child from every pair of twins, returning them as 'roont' adults, permanently diminished. King structures the novel as a western, drawing directly on The Magnificent Seven, as the gunslingers agree to help the Calla defend itself.

Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer journeys across America — and across into a parallel realm called the Territories — to find a talisman that can save his dying mother. Stephen King and Peter Straub fuse epic fantasy quest and horror into a single sprawling road novel.

Grief-stricken and unable to write since his wife's sudden death, novelist Mike Noonan retreats to the couple's Maine lake house — only to find it haunted, and himself drawn into a custody battle with deep, malevolent roots. Stephen King's most romantic ghost story.

A nerdy teenager falls obsessively in love with a rusted-out 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine — a car with a murderous will of its own. Stephen King turns adolescent longing and Detroit chrome into one of his most unsettling parables about possession.

Accused of murdering her elderly employer, blunt Maine housekeeper Dolores Claiborne tells the whole truth — including the far older crime she really did commit. Stephen King delivers the entire novel as a single, unbroken first-person confession of astonishing power.

A obsessed fan murders a reclusive novelist for his unpublished notebooks, then buries the loot — until, decades later, a teenage boy unearths it, and a paroled killer comes hunting. Stephen King's literary-obsession thriller and the second Bill Hodges novel.

Andy McGee and his eight-year-old daughter Charlie are on the run from a shadowy government agency called The Shop after years of experiments have left Charlie with pyrokinetic abilities she can barely control. The more frightened Charlie becomes, the larger and less predictable her fires.

In a brutal near-future America, desperate man Ben Richards enters a televised game show where contestants are hunted across the country and killed for entertainment — and prize money his family cannot survive without.

A friendly St. Bernard contracts rabies and traps a mother and her young son inside a broken-down car on a sweltering summer day in rural Maine. With no supernatural element, King strips horror down to its barest components: an animal, heat, thirst, and time running out.

Brady Hartsfield should be a vegetable in a hospital bed — but something has awakened in him, a power to reach into minds and drive the vulnerable to suicide. Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney face their oldest enemy one last time in the trilogy's chilling finale.

When a bedroom game goes catastrophically wrong, Jessie Burlingame is left handcuffed to a bed in an isolated lake house — alone, with her husband dead on the floor. Stephen King spins a single, claustrophobic predicament into a harrowing psychological survival story.

Private investigator Holly Gibney takes the case of a missing young woman and follows a trail to a pair of genteel, elderly academics hiding monstrous appetites in their basement. Stephen King gives his most beloved recurring heroine a chilling, twisty case of her own.

Two years after her famous-novelist husband's death, Lisey Landon must sort through his papers — and confront the secret, otherworldly place he visited in life, where wonder and horror wait side by side. Stephen King's most personal novel, and his own favorite.

A charismatic small-town minister loses his faith after a tragedy and devotes his life to a dangerous obsession with 'secret electricity.' Decades later, his path keeps crossing that of a recovering addict — toward a finale of pure cosmic dread. Stephen King's Lovecraftian masterwork.

The ka-tet fractures across time and world: Susannah is drawn to New York, 1999, carrying a demonic child that may doom or save the Tower; Roland and Eddie travel to Maine, 1977, where they must obtain the land for a vacant lot and encounter a young writer named Stephen King working on a novel called The Gunslinger. The meta-fictional stakes escalate dramatically.

An invisible, impenetrable dome descends without warning on the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, sealing it off from the outside world. As resources dwindle and communication with the exterior becomes impossible, the town's worst political instincts emerge with terrifying speed.

A morbidly obese lawyer accidentally kills an old Romani woman with his car and receives a single word from her ancient father — 'thinner' — triggering an unstoppable supernatural curse that begins to consume him.

One afternoon in Boston, a mysterious signal called the Pulse turns every cell-phone user into a mindless, murderous savage. Artist Clay Riddell sets out across a collapsing New England to find his son. Stephen King's breakneck apocalyptic zombie thriller.