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Twilight
2005 novel by Stephenie Meyer
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.
The Shining
1977 novel by Stephen King
Carrie
1974 novel by Stephen King
Misery
1987 novel by Stephen King
The Dark Tower
novel series by Stephen King
'Salem's Lot
1975 novel by Stephen King
Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are tweens or young teens who find themselves in frightening scenarios, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Goosebumps Triple Header, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Most Wanted and Goosebumps SlappyWorld. Additiona
I Am Legend
1954 novel by Richard Matheson
Pet Sematary
1983 novel by Stephen King
American Psycho
1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1820 short story by Washington Irving
Interview with the Vampire
1976 novel by Anne Rice
Ubik
Ubik ( ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette "What the Dead Men Say".
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
The Silence of the Lambs
1988 novel by Thomas Harris
Christine
1983 novel by Stephen King
Needful Things
1991 novel by Stephen King
Red Dragon
1981 novel by Thomas Harris
Bag of Bones
1998 novel by Stephen King
Doctor Sleep
2013 novel by Stephen King
The Turn of the Screw
1898 novella by Henry James
The Long Walk (novel)
The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot follows the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight years before his first published novel, Carrie, was released in 1974.
Thinner
novel by Stephen King
The Dark Half
1989 novel by Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
1987 science fiction novel
Dreamcatcher
2001 novel by Stephen King
World War Z
2006 novel by Max Brooks
Jaws
1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley
Insomnia
1994 novel by Stephen King
Desperation
1996 novel by Stephen King
Gerald's Game
1992 suspense novel by Stephen King
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
novel by Stephen King
Hannibal Rising
2006 novel by Thomas Harris
Rose Madder
1995 novel by Stephen King
Cycle of the Werewolf
novella by Stephen King
Black House
2001 novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Vampire Academy
novel series by Richelle Mead
Hannibal
1999 novel by Thomas Harris
Duma Key
novel by Stephen King
Psycho
novel by Robert Bloch (1959)
The Stepford Wives
1972 novel by Ira Levin
The Mist
1980 novella by Stephen King
Annihilation
2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer
Lullaby
2002 novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Rosemary's Baby
1967 novel by Ira Levin
Flowers in the Attic
novel by V. C. Andrews
Revival
2014 novel by Stephen King
Sanctuary
novel by William Faulkner
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
1989 Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean
The Eyes of Darkness
1981 novel by Dean Koontz
Who Goes There?
1938 novella by John W. Campbell
The Body Snatchers
1955 novel by Jack Finney
House of Leaves
2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Haunting of Hill House
1959 novel by Shirley Jackson
The Regulators
novel by Stephen King
Lunar Park
2005 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
The Exorcist
novel by William P. Blatty
The Amityville Horror
1977 novel by Jay Anson