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King, Stephen 1947-
Overview
| Works: | 2,725
works in
11,936
publications in
48
languages and
441,971
library holdings
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| Genres: | Horror fiction
Horror tales
Suspense fiction
Fantasy fiction
Adventure fiction
Horror tales, American
Short stories
Epic fiction
Mystery fiction
Adventure stories
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| Roles: | Author of screenplay, Bibliographic antecedent, Narrator, Performer, Director, Scenarist, Author of introduction, Other, Creator, Conceptor, Arranger, Conductor, Editor, Actor, Interviewee, Adapter, Vocalist, Producer, Dedicatee, Film editor |
| Classifications: | ps3561.i483,
813.54 |
Most widely held works about
Stephen King
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Most widely held works by
Stephen King
The gunslinger by Stephen King (
Book
)
139
editions published
between
1981
and
2011
in
17
languages
and held by
4,225
libraries
worldwide
This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of a drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.
Misery by Stephen King (
Book
)
204
editions published
between
1964
and
2011
in
23
languages
and held by
4,194
libraries
worldwide
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
The shining by Stephen King (
Book
)
235
editions published
between
1973
and
2010
in
24
languages
and held by
4,126
libraries
worldwide
What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?
Four past midnight by Stephen King (
Book
)
138
editions published
between
1981
and
2010
in
18
languages
and held by
3,970
libraries
worldwide
A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog."
Cell : a novel by Stephen King (
Book
)
105
editions published
between
1986
and
2011
in
21
languages
and held by
3,961
libraries
worldwide
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on.
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (
Book
)
106
editions published
between
1999
and
2011
in
19
languages
and held by
3,894
libraries
worldwide
A collection of stories, several on group behavior. The story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, deals with the way group behavior can affect people for the worse, the title story is on a college woman who saves a fellow student from such behavior, while in Blind Willie a man atones for group behavior in the Vietnam War.
Dreamcatcher : a novel by Stephen King (
Book
)
112
editions published
between
2001
and
2011
in
23
languages
and held by
3,887
libraries
worldwide
Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine, encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.
Bag of bones by Stephen King (
Book
)
119
editions published
between
1991
and
2011
in
23
languages
and held by
3,867
libraries
worldwide
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
Desperation by Stephen King (
Book
)
115
editions published
between
1996
and
2011
in
21
languages
and held by
3,845
libraries
worldwide
An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself. By the author of The Regulators.
The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (
Book
)
130
editions published
between
1999
and
2011
in
17
languages
and held by
3,816
libraries
worldwide
A portable radio helps a girl survive after she is lost in the woods of New England. During her nine-day ordeal, Trisha McFarland fights thirst, wasps and the terrors of the night, all the while keeping up her spirits by listening to music and baseball games.
Carrie by Stephen King (
Book
)
251
editions published
between
1973
and
2009
in
23
languages
and held by
3,812
libraries
worldwide
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
Lisey's story : a novel by Stephen King (
Book
)
72
editions published
between
1952
and
2009
in
17
languages
and held by
3,790
libraries
worldwide
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
Cujo by Stephen King (
Book
)
164
editions published
between
1981
and
2010
in
23
languages
and held by
3,787
libraries
worldwide
A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.
From a Buick 8 : a novel by Stephen King (
Book
)
92
editions published
between
2002
and
2011
in
16
languages
and held by
3,708
libraries
worldwide
On the heels of his hugely successful "Dreamcatchers" King delivers another classic novel about boys, men, and a terrifying force only they can contain. The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was ... wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.
The drawing of the three by Stephen King (
Book
)
97
editions published
between
1987
and
2010
in
15
languages
and held by
3,683
libraries
worldwide
Like The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three is a brilliant work of dark fantasy, inspired by Browning's romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." Roland, the world's last living gunslinger, lives out the predictions of tarot cards dealt him by the man in black in the first volume in King's, the Dark Tower Fantasy series, The Gunslinger (1988). Now the man in black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle.
Salem's Lot by Stephen King (
Book
)
157
editions published
between
1963
and
2010
in
17
languages
and held by
3,653
libraries
worldwide
The town knew darkness...and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows...and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence...and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.
The waste lands by Stephen King (
Book
)
116
editions published
between
1991
and
2011
in
17
languages
and held by
3,552
libraries
worldwide
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
Everything's eventual : 14 dark tales by Stephen King (
Book
)
125
editions published
between
2002
and
2011
in
17
languages
and held by
3,498
libraries
worldwide
This volume is a collection of 14 short stories written by Stephen King. These tales that include the much-touted Internet-download phenomenon, "Riding the Bullet"; "The Little Sisters of Eluria," a Dark Tower prequel; the novella-length title story; and "L.T's Theory of Pets," King's personal favorite within the group, which was previously available only in audio. Not only do the action-based plots and engaging narratives hold up well within the realm of King's work, but tales like the 1996 O. Henry Award-winning Nathaniel Hawthorne homage, "The Man in the Black Suit," show us King at his literary best. An added bonus for fans is King's story-by-story annotation, in which he chronicles the event, thought, or image that served as his creative impetus.
Duma Key by Stephen King (
Book
)
74
editions published
between
2007
and
2010
in
14
languages
and held by
3,486
libraries
worldwide
Renting a house on the Florida coast after suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, construction millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's enigmatic family history.
The green mile by Stephen King (
Book
)
299
editions published
between
1969
and
2011
in
23
languages
and held by
3,485
libraries
worldwide
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs ... and yours.
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 Bachman, Richard
Bachman, Richard. Bachman, Richard 1947- Bachmann, Richard 1947- Druse, Eleanor. King, Stephen King, Stephen 1947 King, Stephen Edvin 1947- King, Stephen Edward, 1947- King, Stephen Edwin King, Stiven, 1947- King, Stiven, 1947- czerus King, Stivn, 1947- Kingu, Suteiwan 1947- Pseud. Bachman, Richard 1947- Кинг, С., 1947- Кинг, Стивен, 1947- בקמן, ריצ'רד קינג, סטיבן, 1947- קינג, סטיפן, 1947־ קינג, סטפן, 1947- 金 קינג, סטיב קינג, סטיפן Кинг, Стивън Кинг, Стивен スティーヴン・キング קינג, סטיבן Кинг, С
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