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Stephen King


(Stephen Edwin King)
USA flag (b.1947)
Husband of Tabitha King, father of Joe Hill and Owen King, father-in-law of Kelly Braffet

aka Richard Bachman, John Swithen

Stephen King has written over a hundred books and novellas including The Stand, Bag of Bones, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and Just After Sunset. Many of his stories have been turned into classic films including Misery, Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption. He is winner of America's prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe awards.

He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.
 

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult Fiction
 
New Books
August 2023

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Series
Shining
   1. The Shining (1977)
   2. Doctor Sleep (2013)
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The Dark Tower
   1. The Gunslinger (1982)
   2. The Drawing of the Three (1985)
   3. The Waste Lands (1991)
   4. Wizard and Glass (1997)
   5. Wolves of the Calla (2003)
   6. Song of Susannah (2004)
   7. The Dark Tower (2004)
   The Little Sisters of Eluria (2008)
   8. The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
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Talisman (with Peter Straub)
   1. The Talisman (1984)
   2. Black House (2001)
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Green Mile Serialization
   1. The Two Dead Girls (1996)
   2. The Mouse on the Mile (1996)
   3. Coffey's Hands (1996)
   4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (1996)
   5. Night Journey (1996)
   6. Coffey on the Mile (1996)
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Bill Hodges Trilogy
   1. Mr. Mercedes (2014)
   2. Finders Keepers (2015)
   3. End of Watch (2016)
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Novels
   Carrie (1974)
   Salem's Lot (1975)
   The Stand (1978)
   The Dead Zone (1979)
   Firestarter (1980)
   Cujo (1981)
   Pet Sematary (1982)
   Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
   Christine (1983)
   It (1986)
   Misery (1987)
   The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
   The Tommyknockers (1987)
   The Dark Half (1989)
   The Stand, the Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)
   Needful Things (1991)
   Gerald's Game (1992)
   Dolores Claiborne (1992)
   Insomnia (1994)
   Rose Madder (1995)
   Desperation (1996)
   The Green Mile (1996)
   Bag of Bones (1998)
   The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
   Dreamcatcher (2001)
   From a Buick 8 (2002)
   The Colorado Kid (2005)
   Cell (2006)
   Lisey's Story (2006)
   Duma Key (2008)
   Under the Dome (2009)
   11/22/63 (2011)
   Revival (2012)
   Joyland (2013)
   Sleeping Beauties (2017) (with Owen King)
   The Outsider (2018)
   Elevation (2018)
   The Institute (2019)
   Later (2021)
   Billy Summers (2021)
   Fairy Tale (2022)
   Holly (2023)
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Collections
   People, Places, and Things (1963) (with Chris Chesley)
   Night Shift (1978)
   Stephen King's Creepshow (1982)
   Different Seasons (1982)
   Skeleton Crew (1985)
   Four Past Midnight (1990)
   Gray Matter (1993)
   Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)
   Six Stories (1997)
   Blood and Smoke (audio) (1999)
   Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
   Secret Windows (2000)
   The Man in the Black Suit (2002)
   Everything's Eventual (2002)
   Just After Sunset (2008)
   Road Rage (2009) (with Joe Hill and Richard Matheson)
   Stephen King Goes To The Movies (2009)
   Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
   The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
   It Came From The Garage! (2019) (with others)
   If It Bleeds (2020)
   Short Fiction (2021)
   You Like It Darker (2024)
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Anthologies edited
   Six Scary Stories (2016)
   Flight or Fright (2018) (with Bev Vincent)
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Chapbooks
   Silver Bullet (1985)
   My Pretty Pony (1989)
   Lawnmower Man (1992)
   Umney's Last Case (1995)
   Quitter's Inc. (1999)
   LT's Theory of Pets (2001)
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Plays
   Storm of the Century (1999)
   Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2013) (with T Bone Burnett and John Mellencamp)
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Graphic Novels
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Children of the Corn (1977)
   The Mist (1981)
   Apt Pupil (1982)
   The Breathing Method (1984)
   Dolan's Cadillac (1989)
   The Sun Dog (1989)
   The Langoliers (1990)
   The Library Policeman (1991)
   Secret Window, Secret Garden (1991)
   Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog (1993)
   Sorry, Right Number (1993)
   The Body (1994)
   Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1995)
   Autopsy Room Four (1997)
   Blind Willie (1997)
   Riding the Bullet (2000)
   Secret Window (2004)
   Stationary Bike (2006)
   The Gingerbread Girl (2008)
   Ur (2010)
   Blockade Billy (2010)
   Mile 81 (2011)
   Throttle (2012) (with Joe Hill)
   Stephen King's Battleground (2012)
   A Face in the Crowd (2012) (with Stewart O'Nan)
   In the Tall Grass (2012) (with Joe Hill)
   Big Driver (2014)
   A Good Marriage (2014)
   Drunken Fireworks (2015)
   1922 (2017)
   It Came From The Mist (2019)
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Non fiction
   Danse Macabre (1980)
   Nightmares in the Sky (1988) (with f-stop Fitzgerald)
   Mid-Life Confidential (1994) (with Dave Barry, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver, Ridley Pearson and Amy Tan)
   Stephen King Live (1999)
   On Writing (2000)
   The WaveDancer Benefit (2002) (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Peter Straub)
   Building Bridges (2004)
   Faithful (2004) (with Stewart O'Nan)
   Stephen King Spills the Beans (2008) (with Tim Underwood)
   Guns (2013)
   Hard Listening (2014) (with Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Sam Barry, Matt Groening, Roy Blount Jr., James McBride, Ridley Pearson, Amy Tan and Scott Turow)
   Hearts in Suspension (2016)
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
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Anthologies containing stories by Stephen King
Tales of Unknown Horror (1974)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978)
Shadows (1978)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
The Year's Finest Fantasy Volume 2 (1979)
More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Fantasy Annual III (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
Fantasy Annual IV (1981)
Shadows 4 (1981)
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1985)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Horrors (1986)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
Masques 2 (1987)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Horror Stories (1988)
Prime Evil (1988)
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
Book of the Dead (1989)
Dark Visions (1989)
Dark Voices (1990)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
Young Blood (1994)
The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994)
Space Movies (1995)
The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Dark Love (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Blood Thirst (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
The Best of the Best (1998)
Legends (1998)
Eternal Lovecraft (1998)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
999 (1999)
Technohorror (1999)
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Short stories
Cain Rose Up (1968)
Here There Be Tygers (1968)
The Reaper's Image (1969)
Graveyard Shift (1970)
I Am the Doorway (1971)
Battleground (1972)
The Mangler (1972)
The Boogeyman (1973)
Gray Matter [short story] (1973)
Trucks (1973)
Night Surf (1974)
Sometimes They Come Back (1974)
The Lawnmower Man (1975)
Salem's Lot (excerpt) (1975)
Strawberry Spring (1975)
I Know What You Need (1976)
The Ledge (1976)
The Cat from Hell (1977)
The Man Who Loved Flowers (1977)
One for the Road (1977)
The Gunslinger [short story] (1978)
Jerusalem's Lot (1978)
The Last Rung on the Ladder (1978)
The Night of the Tiger (1978)
Nona (1978)
Quitters, Inc. (1978)
The Woman in the Room (1978)
The Crate (1979)
Big Wheels (1980)
Crouch End (1980)
The Mist [short story] (1980)
The Monkey (1980)
The Wedding Gig (1980)
The Jaunt (1981)
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands (1981)
The Reach (1981)
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World Fantasy
Apt Pupil [short story] (1982)
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (1982)
The Body [short story] (1982)
The Breathing Method [short story] (1982)World Fantasy (nominee)
Morning Deliveries (1982)
The Raft (1982)
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982)
Survivor Type (1982)
Uncle Clayton (1983)
Uncle Otto's Truck (1983)
The Word Processor (1983)
Word Processor of the Gods (1983)
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (1984)World Fantasy (nominee)
Gramma (1984)
Mrs Todd's Shortcut (1984)
The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson (1984)
Beachworld (1985)
For Owen (1985)
Paranoid: A Chant (1985)
The End of the Whole Mess (1986)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Fifth Quarter (1986)
Popsy (1987)
Dedication (1988)
The Night Flier (1988)Bram Stoker (nominee)
The Reploids (1988)
Sneakers (1988)
Home Delivery (1989)
The Langoliers [short story] (1989)Bram Stoker (nominee)
The Library Policeman [short story] (1989)
My Pretty Pony [short story] (1989)
Rainy Season (1989)
Secret Window, Secret Garden [short story] (1989)
The Moving Finger (1990)
It Grows on You (1991)
Chattery Teeth (1992)
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (1992)
Brooklyn August (1993)
The Doctor's Case (1993)
Head Down (1993)
The House on Maple Street (1993)
Suffer the Little Children (1993)
The Ten O'Clock People (1993)
Umney's Last Case [short story] (1993)
The Man in The Black Suit [short story] (1994)World Fantasy
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe (1995)Bram Stoker
Everything's Eventual [short story] (1997)Bram Stoker (nominee)
L.T.'s Theory of Pets (1997)
Lucky Quarter (1997)
The Little Sisters of Eluria (1998)
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French (1998)
Hearts in Atlantis [short story] (1999)British Fantasy Society (nominee)
Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling (1999)
Low Men in Yellow Coats (1999)
Riding the Bullet [short story] (1999)Bram Stoker (nominee)
The Road Virus Heads North (1999)British Fantasy Society (nominee)
Why We're in Vietnam (1999)
1408 (2000)
In the Deathroom (2000)


Awards
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1976) : Salem's Lot
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1979) : Night Shift
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1979) : The Stand
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1981) : The Mist
British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1982) : Cujo
World Fantasy Best Short Story winner (1982) : The Reach
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1983) : The Breathing Method [short story]
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1983) : Different Seasons
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1984) : Pet Sematary
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1985) : The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1985) : The Talisman
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1986) : Skeleton Crew
British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1987) : It
World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1987) : The End of the Whole Mess
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1987) : It
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (1988) : Misery
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1988) : Misery
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1989) : The Night Flier
Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1991) : Four Past Midnight
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1991) : The Langoliers [short story]
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1992) : Needful Things
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Waste Lands
Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (1994) : Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1995) : Insomnia
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1995) : Rose Madder
World Fantasy Best Short Story winner (1995) : The Man in The Black Suit [short story]
Bram Stoker Best Novellette winner (1996) : Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1996) : The Green Mile
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (1997) : The Green Mile
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1997) : Wizard and Glass
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1998) : Everything's Eventual [short story]
Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (1999) : Autopsy Room Four
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (1999) : Bag of Bones
British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1999) : Bag of Bones
British Fantasy Society Best Collection nominee (1999) : Hearts in Atlantis
British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1999) : Hearts in Atlantis [short story]
British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1999) : The Road Virus Heads North
Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (2000) : Hearts in Atlantis
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2000) : Hearts in Atlantis
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (2001) : Riding the Bullet [short story]
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2002) : Black House
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2003) : From a Buick 8
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2004) : The Dark Tower
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (2004)
British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (2005) : The Dark Tower
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2005) : Song of Susannah
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2006) : Lisey's Story
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2007) : Lisey's Story
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2010) : Under the Dome
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2012) : 11/22/63
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2012) : 11/22/63
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (2013) : Doctor Sleep
Anthony Awards Best Paperback original nominee (2014) : Joyland
Dagger Awards Best Book nominee (2015) : Mr. Mercedes
Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (2015) : Mr. Mercedes
Dagger Awards Best Book nominee (2016) : Finders Keepers
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2017) : Sleeping Beauties


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