The Essential Stephen King: The Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer - Hardcover

Spignesi, Stephen J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564144852 ISBN 13: 9781564144850

Publisher: Career Press, 2001

Synopsis

Ranks the horror writer's written works and films, discussing reasons for the ranking, quotes, information on revisions and film adaptations, and a summary of the work's plot and main characters.

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Synopsis:

Working from a body of King's work numbering more than 550 individual creations, Spignesi lists all of King's writings in every genre and then determines King's top 101, a monumental list that includes novels, novellas, short stories, poems screenplays, nonfiction books and essays, unpublished works, and much more. What made the number one spot? The novel that Spignesi and many others consider King's magnum opus: It. What made the number 101 spot? A short story Stephen King wrote when he was 12 called "The Thing at the Bottom of the Well" in which King conceived the ancestral grandfather of the monster in It, 25 years before he would even begin writing his epic tomc. The Dead Zone, The Shining, Salem's Lot, Misery, The Stand, Carrie, Firestarter, Cujo, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary, Christine, Riding the Bullet, The Plant, The Dark Tower series, Insomnia - the best-selling novels are all here. But also included in the ranking are many of King's wonderful short stories and novellas - "Rita Hayworth" and "Shawshank Redemption", "The Mist", "Survivor Type", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", "Gramma", and Kings O. Henry-award-winning New Yorker story, "The Man in the Black Suit.

The Essential Stephen King provides an unbiased, uncompromising review of King's work by an acknowledged King authority. As such, it is a must for all serious and casual Stephen King fans as well as all lovers of superb contemporary literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Career Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1564144852
• ISBN 13: 9781564144850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 359