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Salem's Lot 
by: Stephen King
Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre.
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IT
by: Stephen King
Beware - this book will make you pay the price of the highly imaginative. This is a huge book, but it's well worth the time invested. The characters King creates are both incredibly real and heartbreakingly familiar. These people all have one thing that makes them different from other people, that gives other kids something to pick on them and scorn them for. However, i will be suprised if you don't recognize at least one of their traits in yourself. IT, a supernatural being, loves the taste of terrified kids. IT has the ability to change it's shape into whatever IT's prey is most afraid of, be it a werewolf...or a doberman pinscher. The main "good guys" in the story, known as the Losers Club, discovers the existence of IT and tries to kill IT. They are aided in their struggle by another being, who remains nameless and mysterious. This Other is never shown in the book. Who will win? Read it and find out!
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Christine
by: Stephen King
The two strongest things in Stephen King's writing are his storytelling and his ability to craft vivid, believable characters. This book is a prime example of both of these talents. It is the story of Arnie and Dennis, two high school seniors who have been friends since they were five years old. Arnie has always been the "outcast" kid in school and Dennis has stood up for him countless times. That friendship is put to the test when Arnie falls in love with Christine, a 1958 Plymouth Fury in desperate need of restoration. The purchase of the car puts a strain on Arnie's relationship with everyone around him, including Dennis. Their friendship was, in my opinion, the central theme in the book, rather than the supernatural events surrounding Christine. Those could have been removed entirely from the book and the power of the friendship would still be there. The story wouldn't be quite as gripping and it wouldn't truly be Stephen King, but it would still be a very good read...
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Insomnia
by: Stephen King
This is one of King's long books, which unfolds slowly. It begins in the realm of ordinary life, among "the Harris Avenue Old Crocks," as hero Ralph Roberts calls the retired folks of Derry, Maine. Through the medium of Ralph's insomnia, it moves step by slow step into another dimension of reality.
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The Stand (Complete and Uncut)
by: Stephen King
Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, 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 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
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The Talisman
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Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer wants to save his mother's life. To do so, he must revisit unanswered questions from early childhood and face the truths his late father understood. Jack's quest takes him into parallel worlds, one of which provides the answers he needs.
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Firestarter
by: Stephen King
Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a young girl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Now, the government wants this hot little number for its own insane ends.
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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
by: Stephen King
His first collection of short stories since the release of Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993, Everything's Eventual represents King at his most undiluted. The short story format showcases King's ability to spook readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories (a boyhood fishing excursion). The dark tales collected here are some of King's finest, including an O. Henry Prize winner and "Riding the Bullet," published originally as an e-book and at one time expected by some to be the death knell of the physical publishing world. True to form, each of these stories draws the reader into King's slightly off-center world from the first page, developing characters and atmosphere more fully in the span of 50 pages than many authors can in a full novel.
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Pet Sematary
by: Stephen King
This book is simply the best horror book by Stephen King I've ever read during my whole life. And I doubt if I'll live to read a better one. What touched me in this book was not the horror itself. What makes this book a must-read & re-re-read is the plot along with the characters. That's the most human book of Stephen King, the one where he could tell the world "I'm one of the best writers of this planet!". And yes, he really is. If you pay attention to the inner feelings, the ones that are not described in the book but the ones the author makes the reader wonder about, you'll face feelings, emotions and people that are inside us all, but that we rarely show to the world outside because the mankind lost the capacity to move, the capacity of be touched by things, of letting your heart cry... That's what Stephen King works in here: the true emotions, the feeling of losing and don't knowing how to go on without the ones that go... Things like that. If you want a book of wonderful story, if you want a book of true feelings, that's your book.
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The Tommyknockers
by: Stephen King
Something is happening to the residents of Haven, Maine. Something that gives everyone in the small town powers no human should have, turning Haven into a death trap for outsiders-and plunging the town into the depths of madness....
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