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It (novel)
It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. This is his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity called It, which exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. It is a monstrous, shapeshifting predator that primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children.
Perfume
1985 novel by Patrick Süskind
Misery
1987 novel by Stephen King
Pet Sematary
1983 novel by Stephen King
The Witches
1983 children's book by Roald Dahl
Cujo
Cujo () is a 1981 horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a Saint Bernard who contracts rabies, then goes on a killing spree in his hometown. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983. Cujo's name was based on the alias of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Hearst's kidnapping and indoctrination into the Symbionese Liberation Army. King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all." King wrote the book during the height of his struggle with alcohol addiction. King goe
Firestarter
1980 novel by Stephen King
Christine
1983 novel by Stephen King
The Silence of the Lambs
1988 novel by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon
1981 novel by Thomas Harris
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
novel by Stephen King
Thinner
novel by Stephen King
The Dark Half
1989 novel by Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
1987 science fiction novel
Cycle of the Werewolf
novella by Stephen King
The Mist
1980 novella by Stephen King
The Eyes of Darkness
1981 novel by Dean Koontz
The Vampire Lestat
1985 novel by Anne Rice
On Stranger Tides
1987 novel by Tim Powers
Blood Music
1985 novel by Greg Bear
The Wasp Factory
1984 novel by Iain Banks
The Woman in Black
book by Susan Hill
And the Ass Saw the Angel
1989 novel by Nick Cave
The Hellbound Heart
1986 novella by Clive Barker
The Keep
1981 novel by F. Paul Wilson
Teito Monogatari
Japanese dark fantasy/science fiction novel series by Hiroshi Aramata
Carnosaur
1984 novel by John Brosnan
Watchers
1987 novel by Dean Koontz
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
novel by Anne Rice
Psycho II
novel by Robert Bloch (1982)
Tarantula
1984 novel by Thierry Jonquet
The Girl Next Door
novel by Jack Ketchum
Carrion Comfort
1989 novel by Dan Simmons
Cabal
1988 novel by Clive Barker