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** ''Graveyard Shift''
* Dollar Babies -- King helps out independent filmmakers by selling the rights to use his short stories for a dollar and a VHS copy of the film. The rights revert back to him. Many of King's short stories have been filmed as Dollar Babies.
* ''[[The Stand]]'' - [[After the End]], good and evil clash as a [[Loads and Loads of Characters|dozen characters]] journey across the land. The unabridged version of ''The Stand'' could probably [[
* ''[[The Dead Zone]]'' - The protagonist is plagued by visions of a terrible future. Made into a movie starring [[Christopher Walken]], and then served as loose inspiration for a TV series. Notable as a prominent American novel containing {{spoiler|the "lone gunman" assassin figure as the main hero/protagonist}}.
* ''[[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]].
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The title ''The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower''.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Appears in several of his works. His own father left his family when King was two.
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** He acknowledged this tendency of his in the author's note to one of his short story collections. "Every story wants to be a novel, and every novel wants to be approximately 3000 pages long."
* [[Eye Scream]]: He uses this trope frequently. He's got a special brand of it; melting eyes, included in ''[[The Green Mile]]'' and "In the deathroom", where horrific electrical executions are involved.
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