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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.]] |
[[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.]] |
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{{quote|''It was a nice day... '''<big>AND THEN EVIL CAME!</big>'''''| |
{{quote|''It was a nice day... '''<big>AND THEN EVIL CAME!</big>'''''| |
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The Collected Work of Stephen King, [http://rinkworks.org/bookaminute/b/king.shtml ultra-condensed version]}} |
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{{quote|''We all gotta die, baby. I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.'' |
{{quote|''We all gotta die, baby. I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.'' |
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|'''Stephen King'''}} |
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The current 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. |
The current 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. |
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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. |
* ''[[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. |
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* ''[[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.]] |
* ''[[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.]] |
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* ''[[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. |
* ''[[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. |
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* ''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''). |
* ''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''). |
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* ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'' - Anthology of short stories, some of which were adapted for cable TV in a miniseries of the same name. |
* ''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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