Stephen King Novels

[general gruesome]

I would like to see a release that had all his short stories, unpublished/unfinished works, etc from the 1950s to around the early '70s - There are some stored in his 'papers' in a building in Maine, but I would like to read some of his real early stuff, alot of the plots I read they had a lot of the same style of 1950s horror/crime/mystery ones -

[frankenstein73]

I read every steven king book i could find in my teens, multiple times.  until tears of the dragon or whatever that thing was? Ive only read a handfull of his newer books. They are hit and miss. Love the dark tower series.  The mist was my all time favorite story, i was very dissapointed in that movie. The ending was ridiculous. I might suggest reading Robert McCammon books, he became one of my favorites back in the day. Swan song is a great book, and they thirst was a very different take on vampire stories for its time. Boys life, and gone south are great adventures to read that took me back to the feeling of being a kid again. All his books are good reads IMO.

[horror1o1]

I've seen a number of movies inspired by the man's books, but I'm now just starting to read the novels.  I read Misery when I was a kid and I'm currently reading Salem's Lot.  What are some others worth reading?

I hear it is pretty Awesome and better than the movie. Which I really like the movie.

[Dr Spankenstein]

I read every steven king book i could find in my teens, multiple times.  until tears of the dragon or whatever that thing was? Ive only read a handfull of his newer books. They are hit and miss. Love the dark tower series.  The mist was my all time favorite story, i was very dissapointed in that movie. The ending was ridiculous. I might suggest reading Robert McCammon books, he became one of my favorites back in the day. Swan song is a great book, and they thirst was a very different take on vampire stories for its time. Boys life, and gone south are great adventures to read that took me back to the feeling of being a kid again. All his books are good reads IMO.

I haven't read The Mist but I really enjoyed the movie, and I thought the ending was great.

I just started reading IT.  I'm only a handful of pages into it, but so far, so good. 

[general gruesome]

I read every steven king book i could find in my teens, multiple times.  until tears of the dragon or whatever that thing was? Ive only read a handfull of his newer books. They are hit and miss. Love the dark tower series.  The mist was my all time favorite story, i was very dissapointed in that movie. The ending was ridiculous. I might suggest reading Robert McCammon books, he became one of my favorites back in the day. Swan song is a great book, and they thirst was a very different take on vampire stories for its time. Boys life, and gone south are great adventures to read that took me back to the feeling of being a kid again. All his books are good reads IMO.

It's called, Eyes of the Dragon, I read it awhile back, it's pretty good. Stephen King said, The Mist film was one of his favorite book-to-films of his work

[general gruesome]

Alot of his short stories are great

[Dr Spankenstein]

Alright, so far I've read Salem's Lot, Night Shift, IT and just finished The Shining.  I think my favorite so far is Salem's Lot.  I really enjoyed IT and The Shining, but the one thing that ruined those novels for me were the happy endings.  I really wanted King to end the stories with bleaker endings, like finding out Pennywise really wasn't dead.  Instead, the characters ride off into the sunset.  Same with The Shining.  I wanted Danny to have some sort of shine that told the readers that the horror wasn't over.  The books were great, but those were the only things I didn't like.  I felt like King was giving his readers too much of a "Hollywood" ending. 

[Zackuth]

I might suggest reading Robert McCammon books, he became one of my favorites back in the day.    they thirst was a very different take on vampire stories for its time.

I did read They Thirst and was very entertained by it--until the ending.  I felt as though he did not know how to end his story and decided to give the reader something.  I felt cheated out of an ending and because it that They Thirst is the only book of his I have read.

[Haunted hearse]

Alright, so far I've read Salem's Lot, Night Shift, IT and just finished The Shining.  I think my favorite so far is Salem's Lot.  I really enjoyed IT and The Shining, but the one thing that ruined those novels for me were the happy endings.  I really wanted King to end the stories with bleaker endings, like finding out Pennywise really wasn't dead.  Instead, the characters ride off into the sunset.  Same with The Shining.  I wanted Danny to have some sort of shine that told the readers that the horror wasn't over.  The books were great, but those were the only things I didn't like.  I felt like King was giving his readers too much of a "Hollywood" ending.

I had no problem with either ending.  I was bothered by the ending to the Shinning miniseries, which had the hotel being rebuilt.  I remeber the people complaining in the Kubrick version, how the hotel wasn't destroyed at the end.  By the way, when it comes to "The Stand", there was a chapter deleted from the original publication, showing Flag washing up on some tropical island, and the inferance there was that Flag's story wasn't over.

[Howler]

Pet Cemetery
Cycle of the Werewolf
4 Past Midnight

[Dr.Cyclops]

Pet Semetary