 | Carrie by Stephen King
Buy new: £7.19 / 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 Stephen King
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: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 (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: £0.36 (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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 | Dead Zone (Signet) by Stephen King
Buy new: £4.99 / 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: £4.96 / Used from: £2.20 (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: £6.29 / Used from: £0.88 (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: £19.95 (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: £4.79 / Used from: £1.51 (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 by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 (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: £7.99 / 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
Buy used from: £39.52 (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: £9.49 / Used from: £1.79 (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 Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 (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 by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.96 (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: £6.19 / 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: £7.19 / 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 used from: £1.41 (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 by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £2.73 (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: £5.59 / 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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