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{{quote|''We all gotta die, baby. I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.''|'''Stephen King'''}}
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.
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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For a list of his works which have pages on the wiki, see [[Works by Stephen King]].
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* ''[[Carrie]]'' - [[Scrapbook Story]] about [[Butt Monkey|an abused girl]] with [[Psychic Powers]] who takes a terrible revenge after a [[Prank Date]] to the prom. King's wife stopped him from throwing the manuscript out and convinced him to finish it. Made into a movie by [[Brian De Palma]] that received two Academy Award nominations (for acting), which later received [[The Rage: Carrie 2|a sequel]] and a [[Made for TV Movie|made-for-TV]] [[The Remake|remake]]. It was also made into an infamously terrible musical that has become a byword for "flopped on Broadway".
* ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' - [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires]] in a small town in Maine, and the efforts of a few to get rid of them. Made into two TV miniseries. King's first visit to the Creepy Small Town, which he keeps coming back to, under a variety of names and states. Notable that his publisher advised him NOT to have this as his second book, lest he be pigeonholed as a horror novelist. Guess they got over it.
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He is also part of a rotation of featured columnists in ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine.
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* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[After the End]]: Most notably ''[[The Stand]]'' and ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.
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* [[Groin Attack]]: Frequently of the non-comedic variety.
* [[Hard on Soft Science]]: In ''The Stand''
* [[Hate Plague]]: Inverted in "[[The End
* [[Haunted Technology]]
* [[Homage]]: The short story "Jerusalem's Lot" from ''Night Shift'' is a [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] pastiche, written in epistolary style with sprinklings of [[Purple Prose]], and contains a [[Shout-Out]] to that ''other'' [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]] from the Cthulu Mythos, ''De Vermis Mysteriis''.
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