Stephen King Reviews

Books

Novels

RB = written under pseudonym Richard Bachman

“Carrie” (1974)

“’Salem’s Lot” (1975)

“The Shining” (1977)

“Rage” (1977, RB)

“The Stand” (1978)

“The Long Walk” (1979, RB)

“The Dead Zone” (1979)

“Firestarter” (1980)

“Roadwork” (1981, RB)

“Cujo” (1981)

“The Running Man” (1982, RB)

“The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger” (1982)

“Christine” (1983)

“Pet Sematary” (1983)

“Cycle of the Werewolf” (1983)

“The Talisman” (1984, with Peter Straub)

“The Eyes of the Dragon” (1984)

“Thinner” (1984, RB)

“It” (1986)

“The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three” (1987)

“Misery” (1987)

“The Tommyknockers” (1987)

“The Dark Half” (1989)

“The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands” (1991)

“Needful Things” (1991)

“Gerald’s Game” (1992)

“Dolores Claiborne” (1992)

“Insomnia” (1994)

“Rose Madder” (1995)

“The Green Mile” (1996)

“Desperation” (1996)

“The Regulators” (1996, RB)

“The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass” (1997)

“Bag of Bones” (1998)

“The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” (1999)

“Dreamcatcher” (2001)

“Black House” (2001, with Peter Straub)

“From a Buick 8” (2002)

“The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla” (2003)

“The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah” (2004)

“The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower” (2004)

“The Colorado Kid” (2005)

“Cell” (2006)

“Lisey’s Story” (2006)

“Blaze” (2007, RB)

“Duma Key” (2008)

“Under the Dome” (2009)

“11/22/63” (2011)

“The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole” (2012)

“Joyland” (2013)

“Doctor Sleep” (2013)

“Mr. Mercedes” (2014)

“Revival” (2014)

“Finders Keepers” (2015)

“End of Watch” (2016)

“Gwendy’s Button Box” (2017, with Richard Chizmar)

“Sleeping Beauties” (2017, with Owen King)

“The Outsider” (2018)

“Elevation” (2018)

“The Institute” (2019)

“Later” (2021)

“Billy Summers” (2021)

“Gwendy’s Final Task” (2022, with Richard Chizmar)

“Fairy Tale” (2022)

Collections

“Night Shift” (1978)

“Different Seasons” (1982)

“Skeleton Crew” (1985)

“Four Past Midnight” (1990)

“Nightmares & Dreamscapes” (1993)

“Hearts in Atlantis” (1999)

“Everything’s Eventual” (2002)

“Just After Sunset” (2008)

“Full Dark, No Stars” (2010)

“The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” (2015)

“If It Bleeds” (2020)

Nonfiction

“Danse Macabre” (1981)

“Nightmares in the Sky” (1988)

“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” (2000)

“Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing” (2000)

“Faithful” (2004, with Stewart O’Nan)

Movies

w = writer of screenplay; d = director; * = a sequel or spinoff of King’s work; # = shares title with King’s work, but King successfully sued to have his credit removed

Note: More than 100 short films have been made from King’s work; for the sake of space, they are not listed here.

“Carrie” (1976)

“The Shining” (1980)

“Creepshow” (1982, w)

“Cujo” (1983)

“The Dead Zone” (1983)

“Christine” (1983)

“Children of the Corn” (1984)

“Firestarter” (1984)

“Cat’s Eye” (1985, w)

“Silver Bullet” (1985, w)

“Maximum Overdrive” (1986, w, d)

“Stand by Me” (1986)

“Creepshow 2” (1987)

“The Running Man” (1987)

“A Return to Salem’s Lot” (1987)*

“Pet Sematary” (1989, w)

“Tales from the Darkside: The Movie” (1990)

“Graveyard Shift” (1990)

“Misery” (1990)

“The Lawnmower Man” (1992)#

“Sleepwalkers” (1992, w)

“Pet Sematary Two” (1992)*

“Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice” (1992)*

“The Dark Half” (1993)

“Needful Things” (1993)

“The Shawshank Redemption” (1994)

“Nightshift Collection” (1994)

“The Mangler” (1995)

“Dolores Claiborne” (1995)

“Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest” (1995)*

“Thinner” (1996)

“Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace” (1996)*

“Sometimes They Come Back … Again” (1996)*

“Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering” (1996)*

“The Night Flier” (1997)

“Apt Pupil” (1998)

“Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror” (1998)*

“Sometimes They Come Back … For More” (1998)*

“The Green Mile” (1999)

“The Rage: Carrie 2” (1999)*

“Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return” (1999)*

“Hearts in Atlantis” (2001)

“Children of the Corn: Revelation” (2001)*

“The Mangler 2” (2002)*

“Dreamcatcher” (2003)

“The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer” (2003)*

“Secret Window” (2004)

“Riding the Bullet” (2004)

“The Mangler Reborn” (2005)*

“Creepshow 3” (2006)*

“1408” (2007)

“The Mist” (2007)

“Dolan’s Cadillac” (2009)

“Children of the Corn: Genesis” (2011)*

“Willa” (2012)

“Carrie” (2013)

“A Good Marriage” (2014, w)

“Mercy” (2014)

“Cell” (2016, w)

“The Dark Tower” (2017)

“It” (2017)

“Gerald’s Game” (2017)

“1922” (2017)

“The Doctor’s Case” (2018)

“Children of the Corn: Runaway” (2018)*

“Pet Sematary” (2019)

“It Chapter Two” (2019)

“In the Tall Grass” (2019)

“Doctor Sleep” (2019)

“Children of the Corn” (2020)*

“Firestarter” (2022)

“Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” (2022)

“The Boogeyman” (2023)

“Salem’s Lot” (2023)

Television

TV movies, series and miniseries

w = writer of at least one episode; * = a sequel or spinoff of King’s work

“Salem’s Lot” (1979)

“It” (1990)

“Sometimes They Come Back” (1991)

“Golden Years” (1991, w)

“The Tommyknockers” (1993)

“The Stand” (1994, w)

“The Langoliers” (1995)

“The Shining” (1997, w)

“Trucks” (1997)                 

“Quicksilver Highway” (1997)

“Woh” (1998)

“Storm of the Century” (1999, w)

“Carrie” (2002)

“The Dead Zone” (2002-07)

“Rose Red” (2002, w)

“Firestarter: Rekindled” (2002)*

“Salem’s Lot” (2004)

“Kingdom Hospital” (2004, w)

“Desperation” (2006, w)

“Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King” (2006)

“Children of the Corn” (2009)

“Haven” (2010-15)

“Bag of Bones” (2011)

“Under the Dome” (2013-15, w)

“Big Driver” (2014)

“11.22.63” (2016)

“The Mist” (2017)

“Mr. Mercedes” (2017-19)

“Castle Rock” (2018-19)*

“It: The Animated Series” (2019)

“Creepshow” (2019-)*

“The Outsider” (2020)

“The Stand” (2020-21, w)

“Lisey’s Story” (2021, w)

“Chapelwaite” (2021)

TV episodes

w = writer of teleplay

“The World Processor of the Gods” (“Tales from the Darkside,” 1984)

“Gramma” (“The Twilight Zone,” 1986)

“Sorry, Right Number” (“Tales from the Darkside,” 1987, w)

“The Moving Finger” (“Monsters,” 1991)

“The Revelations of ’Becka Paulson” (“The Outer Limits,” 1997)

“Chinga” (“The X-Files,” 1998, w)

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