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* ''[[Firestarter]]'' - Andy McGee and his daughter Charlie are on the run from the [[Government Conspiracy]], which wants to use their psychic powers for their own nefarious uses. The father is a known factor, but they have no idea what Charlie is capable of. The story may have invented the psychic power of "pyrokinesis". Made into a movie starring [[George C. Scott]] and a young [[Drew Barrymore]].

* ''[[Cujo]]'' - Mother and son trapped in [[The Alleged Car]] by the titular rabid dog. Made into a movie by Lewis Teague, who would go on to direct ''Cat's Eye''. By this point, King's substance abuse was so bad that he ''cannot remember'' writing this book.

{{quote|The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.}}

* ''Different Seasons'' - Anthology of four novellas with [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|Idiosyncratic Episode Subtitling]]

* ''[[The Eyes of the Dragon]]'' - [[Fantasy]] fairy tale of a king imprisoned, a brother on the throne, and the [[Evil Chancellor]] who might be just a [[Canon Welding|tad familiar.]]

* ''[[Misery]]'' - Author held prisoner by deranged fan. King said that ''Misery'' is a metaphor for substance addiction, which he was struggling with at the time. Made into an Academy Award-winning movie (for acting).

* ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'' - A flying saucer slowly mutates a town's populace into aliens. Really stupid aliens...with absurdly advanced technology (as the book puts it, they're Thomas Edisons rather than Albert Einsteins). It's not a good combination. Like ''Misery'', another excellent metaphor for addiction and co-dependency. In ''On Writing'', King states that he did not intend the story to be a metaphor, but that his subconscious probably did. Made into a miniseries.

* ''[[The Dark Half]]'' - A writer's pseudonym comes to life, and he's not happy. Yet another substance addiction metaphor, as explained by King in the introduction. Written just after King was "outed" as the man behind Richard Bachman, and inspired a little bit thereof. Made into a movie starring Timothy Hutton and directed by George Romero. Also, made into a [[Video Game]] nobody remembers anymore.

** ''The Sun Dog'' - A prequel to ''Needful Things'', about a Polaroid camera with a dark power.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Gerald's Game|Geralds 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'').

* ''[[The Green Mile]]'' - Jesus reincarnates, is killed again. Made into a movie starring [[Tom Hanks]] and Michael Clarke Duncan.

* ''[[Desperation]]'' - AU version of ''The Regulators''. Travelers get caught in the wrong desert, in the wrong little town, at the absolute worst time. Made into a TV movie featuring [[Ron Perlman]] as the crazy demon-possessed sheriff.

* ''[[Bag of Bones]]'' - A grieving widower returns to his old vacation home since his wife's death only to realize it's nestled in a [[Town with a Dark Secret]]. Made into a two-part movie aired on A&E.

* ''[[The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon]]'' - A little girl gets lost in the Appalachians...with no supplies...for weeks. Made into a pop-up book.

** ''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.

* ''[[The Dark Tower/Song of Susannah|Song of Susannah]]'' - Sixth ''Dark Tower'' book.

* ''The Colorado Kid'' - Murder mystery that ends {{spoiler|as unsolved as ever}}. Served as loose inspiration for the Syfy television series ''[[Haven]]''.

* ''[[Cell]]'' - A cellphone-based [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. A movie adaptation is currently mired in [[Development Hell]].

* ''[[Full Dark, No Stars|Full Dark No Stars]]'' - A collection of four short stories.

* ''[[11/22/63|Eleven Twenty Two Sixty Three]]'' - Man travels back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|We'll see how it goes.]]

* ''Dr. Sleep'' - A forthcoming sequel to [[The Shining]].