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[[File:Stephen-King-2max.jpg|frame|In the time it took for you to look at this picture, he just wrote a 1500-page novel.]]
{{quote|''It was a nice day... '''<big>AND THEN EVIL CAME!</big>'''''
|The Collected Work of Stephen King, [http://rinkworks.org/bookaminute/b/king.shtml ultra-condensed version]}}
{{quote|''We all gotta die, baby. I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.''
|'''Stephen King'''}}
The current{{when}} dominant author of the horror genre, '''Stephen King''' has added much to its stock of tropes. Many of his works reference each other, building up a larger [[The Verse|universe]]. Known for being ludicrously prolific but also for producing far better writing than most people who pump out stories at his rate, and many who take a lot longer about it.
Many of his books have been [[The Film of the Book|made into films]]. Few of those have been good films, and most of those that are good are, ironically, ''not'' horror films. This is often due to the directors of the given movies having no idea how to convey the thoughts of King's characters, which often affect their situations just as much as their actions, into workable scenes.
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* ''[[Needful Things]]'' - [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|A shop with bargains galore]], each at [[Deal with the Devil|a terrible price]]. Made into a movie which starred Max von Sydow.
* ''[[The Dark Tower/The Waste Lands|The Dark Tower]]'' - Third in the ''Dark Tower'' series. Roland's [[True Companions]] are completed, and travels through the decaying remains of [[After the End|a world that has moved on.]]
* ''[[Gerald's Game]]'' - Bondage gone wrong...as in, "husband dies of heart attack while wife is still [[Chained to a Bed|handcuffed to the bed]]" wrong. You ''so'' wish someone had the stones to make this into a movie. First of the "abused wife" trilogy.
* ''Dolores Claiborne'' - "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto." Made into a movie starring Kathy Bates ([[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives it 87%). Second of the "abused wife" trilogy (explicitly connected by a solar eclipse and weird empathy to ''Gerald's Game'').
* ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'' - Anthology of short stories, some of which were adapted for cable TV in a miniseries of the same name.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Several characters, most notably Jack Torrance in ''The Shining'' and Jim Gardener in ''The Tommyknockers''. King himself used to be an alcoholic.
** Several pages of Gardener's introduction feature a ''disturbing'' description of what alcoholism feels like from the drunk's perspective.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]: He says that, in addition to Tabitha Spruce wearing pretty stockings and owning a nice typewriter, this was why he fell for her. In a writing workshop where people were writing edgy poetry that lacked meaning, Tabby wasn't afraid to speak her mind while remaining calm and patient with terrible writing. She made allowances for his alcoholism and drug addiction, but drew the line and staged an intervention after ''Maximum Overdrive'' flopped, complete with a crew member getting injured. Stephen said that Tabby's faith in his ability to get clean only strengthened their bond.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]
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** There is a direct reference to Lovecraftian mythos in the short story ''Crouch End''.
** And "CTHUN" from the short story ''N''.
* [[Enlistment-Ending Minor Malaise]]: He mentioned in ''On Writing'' that he considered enlisting for the Vietnam War in the hopes it would inspire a book; his mother made him go to college instead because she didn't want him returning in a coffin. The biography ''Haunted Heart'' reveals that he wasn't qualified anyway due to punctured eardrums from a procedure meant to cure his ear infections as a child. (King wasn't that grateful as a child, saying the experience taught him to never trust doctors saying "This won't hurt.")
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]
* [[Finger-Twitching Revival]]: Carrie's hand jutting out of the ground in the film.
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