 | Carrie by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 (1974) The supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with aplomb, and the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality give this novel its power
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 | Salem's Lot by King Stephen
Buy used from: £0.01 (1975) Stephen King's second book Salem's Lot is about the slow takeover of a small town in Maine called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire (patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula)
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.75 / Used from: £0.14 (1977) The Shining was written in a frenzy. Stephen King imagined the whole novel in his head while sitting up all night in the dark, in the very Colorado hotel where the story takes place
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 | Rabia / Rage: 102 (Best Seller) by Stephen King
(1977- under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) Because of the sensitive nature of the content of this book and its association with school shootings, Stephen prohibited any future printings of this book
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 | The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.60 (1978) His most popular book is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99.44% of the world's population
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 | KING STEPHEN : DEAD ZONE (Signet) by STEPHEN KING
Buy used from: £0.01 (1979) Although it contains a horrific subplot about a serial killer, it isn't strictly a horror novel. It's the story of an unassuming high school teacher, an Everyman, who suffers a gap in time
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 | The Long Walk by Stephen King
Buy new: £2.10 / Used from: £0.42 (1979 - under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) In the near future, a young boy is selected to take the Long Walk-a deadly contest of endurance and determination, in which each step can be your last
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 | Firestarter by Stephen King
Buy new: £2.69 / Used from: £1.88 (1980) Presents a story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift - the power of pyrokinesis
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 | Cujo by Stephen King
Buy used from: £23.59 (1981) A once-friendly St. Bernard turns into a killer after being bitten by a rabid bat
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 | Roadwork by Stephen King
Buy new: £1.36 / Used from: £1.08 (1981 - under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) 3rd of the Bachman quartet, written in 1976, it contains no supernatural elements at all, instead focussing on real life terror
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 | The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Bk. 1 (Dark Tower) by Stephen King
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.95 (1982) The first novel in Stephen King's unique, bestselling epic fantasy quest of the gunslinger who passes back and forth through a door leading to two parallel worlds
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 | The Running Man by Richard Bachman
Buy new: £2.41 / Used from: £0.01 (1982) It is 2025 and reality TV has progressed to the point where people are willing to wager their lives in exchange for a chance at enormous wealth. (Made into a movie of the same name)
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 | Christine by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 (1983) When Arnold Cunningham sees the hulking wreck of the 1958 Plymouth Fury in the garden of retired soldier Roland D LeBay's house, it cries out to him and they are perfect for each other
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| Stephen King 1: Pet Semetary, Carrie, Nightshift by Stephen King
(1983) "This is the most terrifying book you will ever read. It will keep you up all night. You have to stop reading, as it becomes too gruesome"
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 | Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.75 (1984) When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. Snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster
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 | The Talisman by Peter Straub
Buy used from: £0.21 (1984) Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer embarks on an epic quest-a walk from the seacoast of New Hampshire to the California coast-to find the talisman that will save his dying mother's life
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 | Thinner (Signet) by Richard Bachman
Buy used from: £0.01 (1984) Billy Halleck is overweight and is thirty-six years old edging into heart attack country...until an old Gypsy woman casts a spell
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 | It by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 (1986) Incredible - at the time of compiling this list, "It" had been given 120 reviews by Amazon members and every single one was FIVE STARS
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 | The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three Bk. 2 (Dark Tower) by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.08 (1987) The gunslinger comes alone to the Western Sea to find, amid the mindless menace of the flesh-eating lobstrosities, the doorways between void and void through which he must draw The Three
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 | The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £0.01 (1987) A woman becomes obsessed with digging up something she's found buried in the woods near her home - which turns out to be an alien spaceship
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 | Misery by Stephen King
Buy new: £13.61 / Used from: £0.01 (1988) In Misery, as in The Shining, a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter
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 | The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Buy new: £2.84 / Used from: £2.27 (1988) A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape
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 | The Dark Half by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 (1989) An author suffered bad headaches as a child. On examination, the doctors find that he has a growth in his brain. Then they discover the growth is actually body parts of a twin being
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 | The Dark Tower: Waste Lands Bk. 3 (Dark Tower) by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.44 (1991) New evils & new dangers threaten Roland's little band in the devastated city of Lud, as well as confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man
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 | Needful Things by Stephen King
Buy new: £3.61 / Used from: £0.01 (1991) An evil presence has set up shop in quiet Castle Rock-and is planning to bring the town to its knees...
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