THE STAND (1978)Īrguably King’s masterpiece, The Stand was released in 1978 about a post-apocalyptic world after almost everyone dies due to a flu-like disease. This is no longer available to buy anywhere as King took it off the market following school shootings in later years. His first novel as Bachman was the story of a teenager who kills a teacher and then takes his class hostage, forcing them to admit to their base desired. Stephen King wanted to prove he could write and sell stories without using his name and used the pseudonym Richard Bachman to do so. Stanley Kubrick directed the adaptation, and while King hated the changes he made, it is one of the best horror movies of all-time. Soon, the evil spirits in the hotel possess Jack and tempt him to kill his family. Jack Torrance brings his wife and son to the Overlook Hotel in Colorado to work as the winter caretaker while it is closed. One of Stephen King’s most famous novels, The Shining is his haunted house story. THE SHINING (1977) Jack Nicholson in The Shining. There was a movie directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) in 1979 and a TV miniseries in 2004 with Rob Lowe. However, what he finds there is more horrific than anything he could write in his books as a vampire named Kurt Barlow has arrived in town. ‘Salem’s Lot is Stephen King’s vampire novel.īen Mears is a novelist who returns to Jerusalem’s Lot to finish writing his new book. There have been three movie adaptations of this King novel alone.

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