Author
Stephen King
Stephen King writes horror and thriller. We've read and reviewed 5 of Stephen King's books, including 'Salem's Lot and The Shining, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Shining
by Stephen King
Stephen King's The Shining traps a struggling family in a snowbound Colorado hotel and lets dread accumulate one quiet detail at a time. It's a haunted-house novel, but the real horror grows out of a marriage, an addiction, and a father coming apart while his gifted young son watches.
It
by Stephen King
Stephen King's It is a sprawling horror epic about seven childhood friends who face a shapeshifting evil in the town of Derry, Maine, then get pulled back as adults to face it again. It's a coming-of-age story built around one of King's most enduring monsters, and the fear feels personal because the people do.
11/22/63
by Stephen King
Stephen King sends a small-town English teacher back to 1958 through a portal in a diner pantry, with one mission: stop the Kennedy assassination. The result is a sprawling, deeply human time-travel epic that's as much love story as thriller.
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
Stephen King moves a doctor's family into a house on a fast Maine highway and puts a burial ground behind it that gives back whatever you bury there. Pet Sematary is his bleakest novel, the one he finished and shelved because he thought it went too far, and the reputation is deserved.
'Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
Stephen King's second novel drops Dracula into 1970s rural Maine and lets him get to work. A writer comes home to Jerusalem's Lot to face the house on the hill, children begin vanishing, and the town's talent for minding its own business turns out to be the monster's best asset.