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King writes about ordinary people in small towns who find something wrong at the edge of things, and the fear comes as much from memory, grief and bad decisions as from monsters. Start with «The Shining», where a family takes a winter job in an empty hotel and the isolation starts to press in, or «Misery», where a novelist is nursed by a fan who has read his new book and wants it changed. Both are tight, tense and hard to put down.

Feels like dread, society and death.

Start with It.

King has said the idea came to him while walking past a storm drain in Bangor, Maine, and imagining a clown looking up at him from the dark.

The crack that opens in your thinking when you glimpse something impossible.

It’s offense you maybe can’t live with because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are evil things down there, and they have little yellow eyes that don’t blink, and there’s a stink down there in that dark and after a while you think maybe there’s a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything, he would have told them if he could. Go to your church and listen to your stories about Jesus walking on the water, but if I saw a guy doing that I’d scream and scream and scream.
Excerpt from It, Stephen King, France Loisirs 1986. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

Books by Stephen King

It

Stephen King, 1986

A Maine town, a childhood summer, and the shape-shifting thing that hunts its children — a horror novel about memory as much as monsters.

The Stand

Stephen King, 1978

A flu escapes a lab and empties America; survivors choose between a saintly old woman and a smiling dark man. King's big, bleak, compulsive plague epic.

Pet Sematary

Stephen King, 1983

A doctor moves his family to a Maine town where the local pet cemetery sits beside something older, and grief becomes a door that should stay shut.

Misery

Stephen King, 1987

A novelist wakes from a crash in a stranger's house, nursed by his number-one fan — who has read his new book and wants him to take it back.

The Shining

Stephen King, 1977

A struggling family takes a winter job in an empty mountain hotel, where isolation, old violence and a boy's strange gift begin to press in.

Cell

Stephen King, 2006

A cell-phone signal turns every caller into a mindless killer, and a father crosses a collapsing world to reach his son.

11/22/63

Stephen King, 2011

A Maine English teacher finds a door into 1958 and sets out to stop a presidential assassination, at the cost of the life he could have had.

Fairy Tale

Stephen King, 2022

A boy who learned to survive his father's drinking follows a neighbor's dog into a world where fairy tales have gone wrong.

Carrie

Stephen King, 1974

A high-school outcast with a terrifying gift and a fanatically religious mother faces the ordinary cruelty of her town.

Cujo

Stephen King, 1981

A good dog, a heatwave, and a small Maine town: King's most domestic nightmare, where the monster is something you already love.

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King, 2013

Danny Torrance, the boy from The Shining, is now a drifting alcoholic—until a girl with the same gift pulls him into a fight against something that feeds on children.

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