Description: Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 62 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. He has been described as the “KING OF HORROR”, a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. Stephen King 2021 BBC HardTalk Interview With Stephen Sackur Stephen King talks about his new book, ‘Later’ Stephen King Weighs Which Of His Characters Would Make The Worst Quarantine-Mate Writing Tips from Stephen King for Screenwriters and Writers Top 10 Best Stephen King Stories ~ Book vs Movie 10 Underrated Movies Based On Stephen King Stories Stephen King: Shining In The Dark Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune Stephen King: MASTER OF HORROR Biography Library Genesis
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Carrie
( 1976 )
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
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Salem's Lot
( 1979 )
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
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The Shining
( 1980 )
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
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Creepshow
( 1982 )
Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
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Cujo
( 1983 )
Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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The Dead Zone
( 1983 )
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
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Christine
( 1983 )
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
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The Devil's Gift
( 1986 )
An evil demon that inhabits a monkey doll takes over the mind of a suburban housewife to carry out its plans.
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Children of the Corn
( 1984 )
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
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Firestarter
( 1984 )
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.
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Cat's Eye
( 1985 )
A stray cat guides us through each tale in this Stephen King-based anthology horror film.
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Silver Bullet
( 1985 )
In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the close-knit community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf.
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Maximum Overdrive
( 1986 )
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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Stand by Me
( 1986 )
A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
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Creepshow 2
( 1987 )
Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.
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A Return to Salem's Lot
( 1987 )
A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.
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The Running Man
( 1987 )
In a future dystopian America, a wrongfully accused and convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he's forced to participate in a TV game show where convicts called Runners must battle killers for their freedom.
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Pet Sematary
( 1989 )
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
( 1990 )
To stall a witch plotting to eat him, a boy reads her horror tales dealing with a collegian's resurrection of a mummy, a murderous cat, and an artist's pact with a gargoyle.
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Graveyard Shift
( 1990 )
The owner of an ancient mill hires a drifter to rid the basement of rats.
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Misery
( 1990 )
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
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Stephen King's Golden Years
( 1991 )
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor (Keith Szarabajka, Angel), no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife (Frances Sternhagen, Sex and the City) and a feisty female agent (Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives). All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
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The Lawnmower Man
( 1992 )
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
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Sleepwalkers
( 1992 )
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures move to a small town to seek out a young virgin to feed on.
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The Dark Half
( 1993 )
A writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price.
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Needful Things
( 1993 )
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
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Stephen King's Golden Tales
( 1993 )
Compilation of five horror stories from _"Tales from the Darkside" (1983)_ that takes the viewer into the dark world of vampires, cursed objects and sinister humor. Despite the title, only the final story is by Stephen King.
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Stephen King's The Stand
( 1994 )
When a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, the population of the world is decimated. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman, or a foreboding, scary man. As the story tracks various people, we begin to realize that the two figures exemplify basic forces of good and evil, and the stage is set for a final confrontation between the representatives of each.
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Nightshift Collection
( 1994 )
Stephen King's "dollar baby" double bill consisting of Frank Darabont's The Woman in the Room (1984) and Jeff Schiro's The Boogeyman (1982).
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The Shawshank Redemption
( 1994 )
A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.
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The Mangler
( 1995 )
A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.
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Dolores Claiborne
( 1995 )
A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.
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The Langoliers
( 1995 )
On a red eye flight to Boston from LA 10 people wake up to a shock. All the other passengers and crew have vanished but all sorts of personal possessions remain. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But its like the world is dead.
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Thinner
( 1996 )
An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight.
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Stephen King's It
( 1990 )
A creature from beyond the stars can take on the shape of your worst fear... or a clown, because everyone loves clowns. Every 27 years the creature--It--emerges from hibernation to feed on children. But seven children stopped It during its last cycle. Now It is back, and the children who had the power of faith and imagination are 27 years older... and may be easy prey.
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The Tommyknockers
( 1993 )
The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of The Tommyknockers.
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Quicksilver Highway
( 1997 )
Traveling showman Aaron Quicksilver tells horror tales: a psychotic hitchhiker falls prey to a relentless dangerously-sharp set of chattering teeth, and a human hand that comes alive.
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The Night Flier
( 1998 )
A reporter is on the trail of a vampiric murderer who travels by plane.
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Trucks
( 1997 )
Aliens arrive, parking in a geostationary orbit over Nevada. Using powers unknown to us, they declare war, and use unmanned trucks as weapons.
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Apt Pupil
( 1998 )
A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
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Storm of the Century
( 1999 )
A small village off the mainland is about to receive a huge winter storm. It won't be just another storm for them. A strange visitor named Andre Linoge comes to the small village and gives the residents havoc. He knows everything about them, and when he tells the truth about one of them, that person denies it. The town constable, Mike Anderson, tries to keep everyone in check with the huge storm and Linoge. Linoge keeps telling the people, "Give me what I want and I will go away"
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The Green Mile
( 1999 )
A death row guard learns that a gentle giant in his charge possesses a mysterious gift.
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Hearts in Atlantis
( 2001 )
A young boy's life changes for the better when a mysterious man with psychic powers moves into the family home that he shares with his widowed mother.
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Rose Red
( 2002 )
Dr. Joyce Reardon assembles a team of paranormal talents to investigate an allegedly haunted mansion known as Rose Red in this mini-series written by Stephen King. Can the team survive the horror that they uncover within the walls of this secretive structure? And how far will Reardon go to get the answers she seeks? Welcome to a place that evil calls home...
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Dreamcatcher
( 2003 )
Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
( 2003 )
The wife of an oil tycoon becomes engrossed in the sinister evil residing within her Seattle mansion home.
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Kingdom Hospital
( 2004 )
Kingdom Hospital is the haunting new 15-hour drama series developed directly for television by the award-winning, best-selling master of horror. Using Lars Von Trier's Danish miniseries "Riget" (a.k.a. "The Kingdom") as a point of inspiration, King tells the terrifying story of The Kingdom, a hospital with a bizarre population that includes a nearly blind security guard, a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood and a paraplegic artist whose recovery is a step beyond miraculous. When patients and staff hear the tortured voice of a little girl crying through the halls, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism of unseen powers ... but at their own peril.
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Secret Window
( 2004 )
A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism.
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Riding the Bullet
( 2005 )
When a man finds out his mother is dying and tries to hitchhike his way to the hospital, he is picked up by a stranger with a deadly secret.
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Desperation
( 2006 )
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes
( 2006 )
This anthology series of eight one-hour episodes adapted from King's short stories will feature such notable performers as Emmy winner and Oscar® nominee William H. Macy(Fargo, TNT's Door to Door and The Wool Cap) and Jacqueline McKenzie (The 4400, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), who star in Umney's Last Case; Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) and Steven Weber (The Shining, Wings), who star in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Samantha Mathis (TNT's The Mists of Avalon and Salem's Lot) and Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, TNT's Julius Caesar), who headline The Fifth Quarter; Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, The Cooler) and Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall), who star in The End of the Whole Mess; Oscar® nominee Tom Berenger(Platoon, TNT's Into the West) and Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, Frasier), who star in The Road Virus Heads North; and Oscar® winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Village), who headlines Battleground.
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1408
( 2007 )
Author Michael Enslin, who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror.
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The Mist
( 2007 )
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
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Everything's Eventual
( 2009 )
A young man, who has a unique psychic talent, is recruited by a mysterious company. In return, he is given everything he wants, a house, a car, everything. His situation seems ideal, everything's eventual. Or is it?
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Dolan's Cadillac
( 2010 )
A young man attempts to seek to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster.
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Haven
( 2010 )
When FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker is dispatched to the small town of Haven, Maine, on a routine case, she soon finds herself increasingly involved in the return of "The Troubles", a plague of supernatural afflictions that have occurred in the town at least twice before. With an openness to the possibility of the paranormal, she also finds a more personal link in Haven that may lead her to the mother she has never known.She and her partner, police detective Nathan Wuornos, find themselves frequently facing problems caused by both the effects of the Troubles, as well as the activities of town folk who take more drastic measures against those who are Troubled.
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Under the Dome
( 2013 )
Under the Dome is the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town's inhabitants must deal with surviving the post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers about the dome, where it came from and if and when it will go away.
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Willa
( 2013 )
David goes to find his fiancée, Willa. She has left him at a train station with a group of stranded passengers. He ends up finding her at a local honky-tonk club. In his attempt to bring her back, he learns the horrifying truth about why they cannot stay at the station.
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A Good Marriage
( 2014 )
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
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Mercy
( 2014 )
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
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Big Driver
( 2014 )
A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.
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11.22.63
( 2016 )
Imagine having the power to change history. Would you journey down the "rabbit hole"? This event series follows Jake Epping, an ordinary high school teacher, presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Jake travels to the past in order to solve the most enduring mystery of the 20th century: who killed JFK, and could it have been stopped? But as Jake will learn, the past does not want to be changed. And trying to divert the course of history may prove fatal.
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Cell
( 2016 )
When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.
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The Mist
( 2017 )
Based on a story by Stephen King, The Mist centers around a small town family that is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other. Family, friends and adversaries become strange bedfellows, battling the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain morality and sanity as the rules of society break down.
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The Dark Tower
( 2017 )
A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.
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Mr. Mercedes
( 2017 )
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.
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It
( 2017 )
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
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Gerald's Game
( 2017 )
While trying to spice up their marriage in their remote lake house, Jessie must fight to survive when her husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her handcuffed to their bed frame.
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1922
( 2017 )
In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.
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Castle Rock
( 2018 )
A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller — a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.
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Pet Sematary
( 2019 )
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children, Gage and Ellie, move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.
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It Chapter Two
( 2019 )
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
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Creepshow
( 2019 )
Creepshow, the anthology series based on the 1982 horror comedy classic, is still the most fun you'll ever have being scared! A comic book comes to life in a series of twelve vignettes over six episodes, exploring terrors from murder to the supernatural and unexplainable. Haunted dollhouses, werewolves, murderous goblins, villainous trick-or-treaters, the dead, and medical marvels are just a few of the things to watch out for in this new series. You never know what will be on the next page...
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In the Tall Grass
( 2019 )
When siblings Becky and Cal hear the cries of a young boy lost within a field of tall grass, they venture in to rescue him, only to become ensnared themselves by a sinister force that quickly disorients and separates them. Cut off from the world and unable to escape the field's tightening grip, they soon discover that the only thing worse than getting lost is being found.
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Doctor Sleep
( 2019 )
Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
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The Outsider
( 2020 )
The Outsider follows police detective Ralph Anderson, as he sets out to investigate the mutilated body of 11-year-old Frankie Peterson found in the Georgia woods. The mysterious circumstances surrounding this horrifying crime leads Ralph, still grieving the recent death of his own son, to bring in unorthodox private investigator Holly Gibney, whose uncanny abilities he hopes will help explain the unexplainable.
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The Stand
( 2020 )
The Stand explores an apocalyptic world ravaged by a mass outbreak of Influenza that wipes out 99% of the population in a matter of weeks. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.
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Lisey's Story
( 2021 )
Lisey's Story is a deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey two years after the death of her husband. A series of events causes Lisey to begin facing amazing realities about him that she had repressed and forgotten.
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Salem's Lot
( 2004 )
Salem's Lot is a TV mini-series based on the book of the same name by Stephen King.
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Salem's Lot
( 2024 )
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
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