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* ''Everything's Eventual'' - Anthology of short stories, including the following:
** ''[[Fourteen Oh Eight|1408]]'' - An author attempts a stay in a haunted hotel room; things only [[It Got Worse|get worse]] for him from then on out. Made into a movie starring John Cusack.
** ''Riding the Bullet'' - [[Beware of Hitch
** ''Everything's Eventual'' - A young man is hired by [[The Syndicate|a shadowy individual]] to send emails that [[Brown Note|make the recipients commit suicide]].
** ''The Little Sisters of Eluria'' - A ''Dark Tower'' side story, where Roland meets some strange vampires.
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* [[Hate Plague]]: Inverted in "[[The End Of The Whole Mess]]".
* [[Haunted Technology]]
* [[Homage]]: The short story "Jerusalem's Lot" from ''Night Shift'' is a [[HP Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] pastiche, written in epistolary style with sprinklings of [[Purple Prose]], and contains a [[Shout
* [[Homicide Machines]]
* [[I Just Write the Thing]]: If ''On Writing'' is any indication, he usually starts out with characters and a premise, then works out from there what the characters would do and what would happen in response to their actions, [[Writing By the Seat of Your Pants|with only a little thought of where the story will ultimately go]]. This means both that a character who's been heavily developed for 200 or so pages can get eaten on page 201 (see {{spoiler|''[[Dreamcatcher (Literature)|Dreamcatcher]]'', ''[[The Mist]]''}}), and that a character who was intended to die can wind up surviving through application of a previously-established resourcefulness ({{spoiler|''[[Salems Lot|Salem's Lot]]'', ''[[Misery]]''}}.) There have been exceptions where he tried to fit a story into a particular path, but the only one he [[Creator Backlash|still likes]] is ''[[The Dead Zone]]''.
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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''.
* [[Name'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
* [[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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* [[Psychic Powers]]: A great number of his books at the very least touch some manifestation of psychic phenomena.
* [[Scrapbook Story]]: ''Carrie''
* [[Shout
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The solar eclipse that connects the three books of the "abused wife" trilogy was a real solar eclipse that happened in 1963.
* [[Silver Bullet]]: ''Cycle of the Werewolf'', ''It''
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* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: King's short story "The Jaunt" combines teleportation with [[And I Must Scream]].
* [[Theme Initials]]: R.F.
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: The titular 'Salem's Lot might be the best (worst?) offender. Other towns that repeatedly pop up are [
** Mejis in The Dark Tower.
* [[True Companions]]: Referred to as a Ka-tet in [[The Dark Tower]]. Also figures heavily into ''IT'' and ''Dreamcatcher''.
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