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* ''Blockade Billy'' - Story of a baseball player mysteriously erased from the record books...and for a pretty good reason.
* ''[[Full Dark No Stars (Literature)|Full Dark No Stars]]'' - A collection of four short stories.
* ''[[Eleven Twenty Two Sixty Three (Literature)|Eleven Twenty Two Sixty Three]]'' - Man travels back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[[HitlersHitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|We'll see how it goes.]]
* ''[[The Dark Tower (Literature)/The Wind Through the Keyhole|The Dark Tower]]'' - The eighth book in [[The Dark Tower]] series, but serves as an interquel to ''Wizard and Glass'' and ''Wolves of the Calla''.
* ''Dr. Sleep'' - A forthcoming sequel to [[The Shining]].
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* [[By the Eyes of The Blind]]
* [[Canon Welding]]: [[The Dark Tower]] starts to tie together all the other works, and possibly a few works outside of King's, towards the end.
* [[ChandlersChandler's Law]]: Practiced in ''[[The Stand]]'' and, likely, in [[The Dark Tower]].
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Many books make brief, casual, and often vague references to characters and/or events from previous King novels that may or may not have anything to do with the current novel, but that fans who have read those novels would be able to recognize.
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** And "CTHUN" from the short story ''N''.
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]
* [[Finger -Twitching Revival]]: Carrie's hand jutting out of the ground in the film.
** [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[The Fundamentalist]]: They occasionally show up, with Margaret White in ''Carrie'' being one of the most horrific examples.
** Mrs. Carmody in ''[[The Mist]]'' is also particularly nasty (even more so in the movie).
* [[Giant Spider]]: King is an admitted [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|arachnophobe]] so these tend to show up.
* [[God Before Dogma]]: Religious characters who are not [[The Fundamentalist]] tend to favor this. Interviews with King confirm this to be his own worldview.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]
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* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Started with Sue Snell in ''Carrie''. Mike Noonan in ''Bag of Bones'', Bill Denbrough in ''IT'', and others.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: A version appears in several of King's novels, especially ''Carrie'' and ''IT''.
* [[NamesName's the Same]] Often re-uses names from other books to describe completely different people. Examples include: Patrick Hockstetter, who was a Shop scientist in ''[[Firestarter]]'' and a sociopathic schoolmate of the Loser's Club in ''[[IT]]''; Martin Coslaw, who was the nice, crippled hero of ''[[Cycle of the Werewolf]]'' (and the film based on it, ''[[Silver Bullet]]'') and a cruel disciplinarian in ''[[Blaze (Literature)|Blaze]]''; he shows up a third time in ''[[Eleven Twenty Two Sixty Three (Literature)|Eleven Twenty Two Sixty Three]]'' as a high school football player and actor. Similar to a [[Continuity Nod]] (above). Also, has used names of people in his own life to help name some of the characters as a form of [[Shout Out]] (see below).
* [[Next Sunday AD]]: Many of his books are set a few months after publication.
* [[Old Shame]]: King pulled ''[[Rage (Literature)|Rage]]'' out of circulation after its potential involvement in several school shootings. He still regrets it to this day.
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