Firestarter
(1980) A couple of crazy kids take part in a secret drug experiment in the late sixties and get married a year later. Each one gains a small "talent" as a result of the experiment, a "talent" capable of being passed on. A couple of years later their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire...by looking at it. She's a very special child with a fiery temper, but her parents teach her to control her "talent."
Unfortunately for Charlie and her parents, now in 1981, The Shop (a secret government agency) knows about Charlie and her powers and wants her, wants her bad. They will stop at nothing to gain control of this little girl, in order to train her destructive talent even further to serve their own agenda. But Charlie does not want to be The Shop's ultimate weapon. The Shop's in for a BIG surprise.
Danse Macabre
(1980) One of Stephen King's few non-fiction pieces, this time dealing with the horror in books, films, and TV from the 1950's through to the 1970's.
Roadwork
(1981)
Written as Richard Bachman. They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.
Cujo
(1981) The second of the Castle Rock novels based in the Summer of 1980, where young Tad Trenton thinks there is a monster in the closet, but this time the monster in the closet turns out to be a rabid dog called Cujo.
The Running Man
(1982) Written as Richard Bachman. The future is a very dark place, where people work in dangerous jobs for low wages, but employment is still extremely hard to get. Ben Richards knows that the only way his wife and daughter can get out of the low class lifestyle is for him to try to win money on one of the many gameshows on television.
These are no ordinary gameshows, because they make you suffer, or even die, and Richards has been chosen for the top show of all - The Running Man. The rules are fairly straightforward. $100 for every hour that you stay alive, and if you manage to stay alive for 30 days, you win One Billion Dollars!
The Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger
(1982) The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead as he pursues the man in black to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Along the way he rescues the boy, Jake, who is from a different time and place, and soon they become ka-tet in spite of Roland’s single-minded goal of reaching the man in black at all costs.
Christine
(1983) It was love at first sight. From the moment
seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King's ultimate vehicle of terror.
Pet Sematary
(1983) The Pet Sematary is more than just a place to bury your pets, especially for one horrified family.
After Louis Creed discovered that there was a place beyond the Pet Sematary where you could bury your dead... and they came home the next day. Can Louis resist the temptation when his little son is killed?
Cycle of the Werewolf
(1984) A novel set in Tarkers Mills, Maine, where each month a victim is slain by a savage werewolf. Age, sex and status mean nothing to the roving beast. Finally a 10 year old disabled boy finds out that the werewolf is really one of the local town residents - one that would normally not be under investigation.
Thinner
(1984) This story, written as Richard Bachman, tells of a terrible story. William Halleck is a lawyer, with a weight problem, but after tragically hitting an old Gypsy woman while driving home in the town of Fairview, he starts to loose weight. At first he thinks little of it, but he keeps loosing weight at an alarming rate, and the word that the old Gypsy man said to him keeps haunting his dreams - 'Thinner'.
The Talisman
(1984) In order to save his dying mother (and quite possibly the entire world), twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer must find the Talisman, a crystal globe perhaps three feet in circumference, which also happens to be the axis of all possible worlds.
It
(1986) A story of Pennywise the clown, who is ageless evil, trying to kill children in the town of Derry, and the fight back from a group that call themselves the "Losers". Starting in the fall of 1957, the fight between the Losers and Pennywise is thought to have killed him, but he is back in 1985, and really upset with the losers!
The Dark Tower II - The Drawing of the Three
(1987) The journey continues for Roland after his confrontation with the man in black. Through doors which mysteriously appear on the beach of Mid-World’s Western Sea, he finds two more to join him in his quest for The Dark Tower--Eddie Dean, a heroin addict, and Odetta Holmes, whose alter personality, Detta Walker, adds additional challenges.
The Tommyknockers
(1987) The discovery of an alien spacecraft by a writer makes the entire town of Haven behave strangely. Murder and mayhem become commonplace.
Misery
(1987) Paul Sheldon is a writer who meets his number one fan Annie Wilkes - and she just won’t let him go! Trapped with a crazed fan, Paul has to rely on all his strength and determination to survive.
The Eyes of the Dragon
(1987) There is a far-away land where
dragons still live, a land where magic still works, a land where hope and courage still hold true. In this land there is a kingdom called Delain. And in this kingdom, there lives a magician, a dark man known as Flagg. And so trouble must come to Delain. The king is poisoned and a prince wrongly imprisoned....just as Flagg had planned. Yet someone knows the truth, for he has seen through the Eyes of the Dragon
The Dark Half
(1989) Thad Beaumont is a writer in Castle Rock who suffered from writer's block. He decided that he may be able to overcome his problem by writing under a different name, and so he came up with the fictitious George Stark. The Stark books were a huge success, but once he decides to get rid of George by 'burying' him in an empty grave, his problems begin!
The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
(1990) After a plague is accidentally released upon the world the few survivors are divided between the forces of good and evil to determine who will rebuild the world.
Needful Things
(1991) A strange store opens in Castle Rock, and begins to do a good trade. Its proprietor is an unusual person, but people do not notice, and shortly after, people start behaving rather strangely.
The Dark Tower III – The Waste Lands
(1991) Roland, Eddie, and Odetta, now known as Susannah, find themselves in the ravaged city of Lud but before continuing on their journey upon the maniacal train that will lead them beyond the Waste Lands, they must have one more from Roland’s past to be drawn to their ka-tet.
Dolores Claiborne
(1992) Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't exactly the story the police are expecting to hear. Suspected of murdering Vera Donovan, the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores admits the two women hadn't always got along.
Gerald's Game
(1992) Jessie Burlingame, 39, is getting plenty tired of being handcuffed to the bed of her Maine summerhouse by her attorney- husband, Gerald, so that he can play his silly sex games. So when Gerald refuses to uncuff her, she kicks him in the family jewels, accidentally smashing them to kingdom come--and the terror begins.
Insomnia
(1994) You'll lose a lot of sleep. Ralph does. At first he
finds it hard to drop off. Then he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. But that isn't when he starts seeing things. Colors, shapes, strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. The evil looking one clutching a rusty scalpel.
Rose Madder
(1995) After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell?
Desperation
(1996) Desperation has been taken over by the evil Tak, an ancient beast, who takes over the bodies of people in order to get them to do his evil wishes. Tak escaped from an ancient mine and then slowly takes over the bodies of the inhabitants of Desperation, a small mining town, and kills some, imprisoning others. Can a small boy defeat this ancient beast?
The Green Mile
(1996) They call death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary “The Green Mile.” John Coffey, sentenced to die for the rape and murder of two young girls, is the latest addition to the Mile. Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent, discovers that there is more to John Coffey than meets the eye, for this friendly giant has the power to heal.
The Regulators
(1996) Our good old friend from Desperation is back! Tak tries to take over an entire street, making it into his fantasy version of an old TV program, with devastating results.
Taking over a small boy, Tak seeks to kill everyone on the street by making the Regulators, a small group of toys that are favorites of the boy, come to life.
The Dark Tower IV – Wizard and Glass
(1997) Having narrowly escaped Lud and Blaine, the ka-tet finds itself in Topeka, Kansas, a ghost town depopulated by a superflu. So that they can continue, Roland must tell them of a time in his youth which helped define the man he has become. Before the tale is finished he must confront a man who may hold the key to the Dark Tower.
Bag of Bones
(1998) A
story about a man, a best-selling writer named Mike Noonan, who is suffering writer's block after the death of his wife Johanna.
Mike seeks solitude, and the answers to his strange dreams at his lakeside house on Dark Score Lake, but that is just the start of his problems. You see his is not the only one inhabiting his house - it's haunted, and the ghost is not always nice!
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
(1999) Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther astray, Trisha has only her portable radio for comfort. A huge fan of Tom Gordon, a Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, she listens to baseball games and fantasizes that her hero will save her. Nature isn't her only adversary, though - something dangerous may be tracking Trisha through the dark woods.
Storm of the Century
(1999) Set in 1989, this miniseries centers largely on a devil character named "Linoge" who is looking for a small child to succeed him. The child is a member of a small, coastal town in Maine called Little Tall Island and is protected by constable Mike Anderson. In order to lure the town into giving him the child, Linoge inflicts his wrath, creating a catastrophic blizzard, bringing destruction to its waterfront and killing off some of its citizens.
Dreamcatcher
(2001) Four lifelong friends gather in the woods of western Maine for their annual hunting trip. When they were young, they were bound together forever by an act of bravery involving a fifth friend, whose influence has given these men special powers. Their trip is disrupted when a stranger, disoriented and delirious, wanders into camp, muttering about light in the sky. Before long, the friends find themselves pitted against an alien invasion and must draw on their old friend's strength once again to fight for their lives.
Black House
(2001) In this sequel to The Talisman, Jack Sawyer is now in his late thirties and has taken early retirement from the LAPD, retreating to a small town in Wisconsin. He has no memory of his adventures as a twelve-year-old boy, when he traveled into a parallel universe in search of the talisman that would save his mother's life. A series of murders involving young children force him out of retirement. There is more to these cases than murder, though, and Jack must retrieve his childhood memories to rescue the latest victim, who is coveted by the killer's evil overlord, a powerful force from End-World, in Roland the gunslinger's universe.
From a Buick 8
(2002) Shortly after his father, a Pennsylvania state trooper, is killed in a senseless automobile accident, Ned Wilcox discovers that the members of Troop D have a secret concealed behind their headquarters. Curtis Wilcox's friends and colleagues take turns relating the twenty-year history of the mysterious Buick Roadmaster locked in Shed B and how its discovery and unexplained behavior has captivated the tightly knit group of men for two decades. The Buick seems to be a conduit to another reality and every now and then it breathes, inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.
The Dark Tower V - Wolves of the Calla
(2003) The ka-tet has traveled to the Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil community, long tormented by the Wolves of Thunderclap who have stolen their children and are then returned “roont.” With help from the ka-tet and Pere Callahan, also from a portal between worlds, the Calla folken decide this time to fight the Wolves and protect their children.
The Dark Tower VI - Song of Susannah
(2004) Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. The demon-mother, Mia, uses Susannah and Black Thirteen to transport to New York City of 1999. Jake, Oy, and Pere Callahan must rescue Susannah while Eddie and Roland transport to the Maine of 1977. A vacant lot in New York must be saved and ties these together.
The Dark Tower VII
(2004) Roland’s ka-tet is reunited, but not without cost. The last episode of the story takes them on the final stretch of their journey to The Dark Tower. Though they have rescued Susannah, there are still enemies who must be dealt with along the way and who could be their ultimate destruction. The journey is long and ka is but a wheel.
The Colorado Kid
(2005) Vince Teague and Dave Bowie are the sole
operators of The Weekly Islander, a small Maine newspaper. Stephanie McCann has been working for them as an intern. When Stephanie asks if they've ever come across a real unexplained mystery in the fifty years they'd been publishing the paper, they tell her the story of The Colorado Kid.
Cell
(2006) What starts as an ordinary October day soon turns into a fight to save the human race. A strange signal, known as "The Pulse" is sent through every cell phone, and instead of destroying technology, it destroys the user. Hell bent on murderous rampage, they seek out the 'normies' that were lucky enough to escape the attack, but the headmaster of Gaiten Academy, and one of the students may have devised a way to stop them.
Lisey's Story
(2006) Two years after the death of her writer husband, Lisey Landon begins to clean out his old writings, but discovers something strange - clues left behind for no one but her. She gets threatened by a strange man who wants all Scott Landons unpublished papers, and this starts her strange journey into the past, and also a strange parallel world Scott called Boo'ya Moon.
The Mist
(2007) Story about a group of ordinary townspeople trapped in a supermarket by a mysterious fogbank.
Duma Key
(2008) New novel about a character
named Edgar Freemantle who loses an arm in an accident and has paranormal phantom limb sensations.
Blaze
(2008) A story about a mentally challenged behemoth who falls into a life of crime and kidnaps
a baby as a path to easy money. He is guided by the ghost of his former sidekick, George,
who was a social deviant with a knack for cons.
Under the Dome
(2009) The town of Chester's Mill is cut off from the world by a mysterious dome, trapping everyone inside. The military can not help, leaving those inside to fend for themselves.
Will they escape, or will they suffer the wrath of big Jim Rennie, the second selectman of the small town?
Stephen King
It's about a young girl
with psychic powers. In the beginning, he grew discouraged and discarded it. His wife rescued
it from the trash and encouraged him to finish it. After completing the novel,
he sent it to Doubleday. He received a very small advance
but the paperback rights eventually
earned $400,000, with half going to the publisher. The novel was made into a
movie two years later and is still a popular movie.
Carrie
winter caretakers of an isolated
hotel where the son sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past
using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father
is underway in a writing project when he starts drinking and slowly slips into insanity as a
result of cabin fever and former ghostly guests of the hotel. After being
convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, the father goes completely insane.
The only thing that can save the son and his mother is "The Shining".
The Shining
Nickolson
as the father. Just when the audience was about the wet their pants if
the father came around the corner again wheeling that bloody axe, Jack peers
through an opening in a door that he had just made with the axe and sporting the famous Nickolson grin, says, "H-e-r-e's Johnny." The audience just cracked
up with laughter. For those of you who are too young to appreciate
this remark, this is what Ed McMahon would say when he introduced the
comedian, Johnny Carson who hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 to
1992.
