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Bag of Bones
The hero of this story is Mike Noonan, a novelist. Noonan begins by describing the death of his wife four years ago, and his subsequent grief and the ...

Black House
Stephen King and Peter Straub are back with the long awaited sequel to The Talisman. Retired detective Jack Sawyer must revisit his long forgotten pas...

Carrie
Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordina...



Cell
In King's book "Cell", the main character (a comic book illustrator who is unhappily estranged from his wife and misses his young son) has just signed...

Christine
A car named Christine is bought by Arnie Cunningham. The car takes control of his mind. Christine starts to kill people and there's nothing Arnie can ...

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Cujo (Science Fiction)
A dog named Cujo gets rabies from bats and starts to attack the residents of Castle Rock,Maine. A little boy watches his door open and sees Cujo. He ...

Cujo (Thriller/Action)
The novel follows the troubled, and distressed lives of the people in Castle Rock, Maine. Destruction of the mind causes Donna Trenton to cheat on he...

Desperation
Theres a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's know as Desperation, Nevada. It's not a very nice place to live. ...

Dolores Claiborne
On a hot July day in 1963,while a total eclipse of the sun darkened the skies over the central portion of the state of Maine, Dolores Claiborne's drun...

Dream Catcher
Scribner, Mar 2001, 28.00, 624 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-1138-3 Though at times the world seems more like a place filled with terrible marmalade, u...

Dreamcatcher
Jonesy, Henry, Pete, and Beaver are four normal boys growing up together in Derry, Maine. While walking home from school one day they save another bo...

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Everything's Eventual
Scribner, Mar 2002, 28.00, 464 pp. ISBN: 0743235150 Even though its seems unreal, Stephen King has not written a short story collection in...

From A Buick 8
This novel gives readers a glance inside the lives of a group of not so ordinary police officers, who have kept a very large secret hidden away in the...

Insomnia
In this thriller, Stephen King's seventy-year-old protagonist, retired salesman Ralf Roberts, discovers that strange beings have descended upon his ho...

It (Science Fiction)
When Will Denborough and his old school buddies receive a phone call each, they are flung back into a world of terror they had long numbed their minds...

It (Thriller/Action)
Kids in a small town called Derry are killed by "It". George, Bills brother, is one of these victims. Bill wants revenge. He and his other freinds try...

Langoliers
Group of people on an airplane find themselves alone in a strange place on earth. They are trying to understand where they are and later find out that...

Stephen King novels

Lisey's Story
"Lisey's Story," is a romance, celebrating the enduring love between Scott Landon, a wealthy and celebrated author (much like King himself) and his wi...

Misery
An author by the name of Paul Sheldon ends up having a terrible car accident on the highway. He awakes to find himself in a bed that is not his own, n...

Nightmares and Dreamscapes
In his third collection of short stories Stephen King treats us to a variety of tales--one about a man's quest for revenge against a Mafia kingpin who...

On Writing
The first half of King's book is not about writing. The reader is opened up to a new side of Stephen King--the child he once was, the life he lived gr...

Pet Sematary
Louis Creed and his family move into a quiet new village, away from the dangers of the big city. In this village is a cemetary in which children for g...

Rose Madder
This horror story is all about a cop-husband, Norman, who is a REAL MONSTER to his wife, and then to others. Rosie has tolerated his abuse for 14 year...

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Rose Red
A college psychology professor who specilizes in the parapsychological fields gathers a group of various psychics to do a 3 day study of a legendary l...

Salem's Lot (Thriller/Action)
Salem's Lot describes the destruction of a small New England town by Barlow, Vampire King. Barlow's only opponents are Ben Mears, a local writer, Mar...

Salem's Lot (Science Fiction)
In the small town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, strange things have occurred for many years, many of them connected to the Marsten House. When Ben Mears...

Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Andy Dufresne spends a quarter of a century confined to the less than accommodating quarters of Shawshank Pr...

The Colorado Kid
The novel opens as the news staff of The Weekly Islander pays for lunch at a restaurant. The editor Dave Bowie and founder Vinge Teague test youn...

The Dark Half
Thad decides to eliminate his pen name (George Stark) but George won't allow it. George comes to life and begins to kill people close to Thad. Thad ...

The Dark Tower
Scribner, Sep 2004, 35.00 ISBN: 1880418622 In spite of shifting time and place, Roland the Last Gunfighter knows he is nearing his destination...

The Dark Tower Part V: The Wolves of the Calla
About every thirty years or so, in the sleepy group of towns called "The Calla", something horrible happens--the wolves come. This is what Roland and...

The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith is a popular high school teacher. After a terrible car accident he is left in a coma. He awakes 41/2 years later with the ability to se...

The Diary of Ellen Rimbaur: My Life At Rose Red
The shattering of a young girls life by an eccentric man. A house with a mind of it's own....

The Drawing of the Three
The Drawing of the Three Viking, Jul 2003, 35.00, 406 pp. ISBN: 0670032557 The “confrontation' with the Man in Black finally occurred (see THE ...

The Eyes of the Dragon
The main character in this story is Peter, a good prince destined to become king until a scandalous plot shows him guilty of murder. His mother, the ...

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a departure for Stephen King from his usual "creepy monster in the haunted house" driven works of horror and suspense...

The Green Mile
A prisoner has special powers. He can cure anything. He cures a mouse, and he cures many other things and he is a prisoner, because he is believed to ...

The Gunslinger
Roland Deshayn, or Roland of Gillead is walking the desert chasing the "Man in Black". The "Man in Black" or Walter is an evil mage. They are in a p...

The Long Walk (Science Fiction)
100 young boys (under 18) walk for as long as they can. The Walk starts in Maine, and usually ends somewhere around Maryland. The twist is that if t...

The Long Walk (Thriller/Action)
This story is about a boy named Ray Garraty who is 16 and has joined together with 99 other long walkers. They walk for days, and if they fall under ...

The Running Man
In a decadent, overpolluted future, the most popular game show is The Running Man, where a volunteer is hunted by bounty hunters, police, and viewers....

The Shining (Thriller/Action)
After his father takes a job as caretaker of a secluded hotel/resort for one winter season, the main character must fight for his life when the grim h...

The Shining (Science Fiction)
Danny moves with his parents to the Overlook Hotel to be caretakers for the winter. He learns he has a special power called the shinning in which he c...

The Stand
It's about 1985, and a deadly plague has struck the world, killing off a lot of the population. But for the survivors, it's not over yet. For there ...

The Talisman
"Travelling Jack" is 12 and his mother is dying - Untill he meets Speedy Parker, an old black fairground hawker, who teaches him how to change their l...

The Tommyknockers
When Bobbi Anderson finds a strange metal disc in the ground, she starts to notice she can think clearer and has been given certain supernatural abili...

The Waste Lands
Viking, 2003, 35.00, 402 pp. ISBN: 0670032565 After recuperating from the final door confrontation (see THE DRAWING OF THE THREE), Roland trai...

Thinner (Science Fiction)
Billy Halleck was satisfied with his normal, routine life. He enjoyed his family, his job as an attorney, but he was not so happy with his weight. A...

Thinner (Thriller/Action)
William Halleck a lawyer with a happy family needs to lose some weight, or he's headed into heart-attack field. One day he runs over a gypsie's daugh...

Wizard and Glass
Viking, 2003, 40.00, 668 pp. ISBN: 0670032573 Blaine the killing machine drives the train at speeds that ultimately means death to the passeng...

Wolves of the Calla
Scribner, Nov 2003, 35.00, 736 pp. ISBN: 1880418568 The original gunslinger Roland Deschain and his companions (Eddie Dean, Susannah Holmes, J...

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