Recommend me a Stephen King book

[BigMoaner]

Need some junk/Comfort reading. 90s onward, done most of the ones before that.

 

[DotCommunist]

Needful Things

his newer one The Institute was the first King I'd read in years, its good.

 

[Pickman's model]

Duma key

 

[Pickman's model]

Need some junk/Comfort reading. 90s onward, done most of the ones before that.

Have you read king's collaborations with Peter straub?

 

[BigMoaner]

Have you read king's collaborations with Peter straub?

Nope...read duna key tho

 

[Pickman's model]

Nope...read duna key tho

try their talisman and black house then, the latter sequel to the former

 

[Steel Icarus]

Duma key

This. Under the Dome I enjoyed too but 11.22.63 is brilliant

 

[Ax^]

you finished the dark tower series

if not do that

 

[Pickman's model]

you finished the dark tower series

if not do that

Just coming to say this

 

[BigMoaner]

I don't want his "political/social" commentary types. Just pure spooky nonsense, pref set in lovely small towns. For some reason I love the way his small town Americana cross breads with horror.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't want his "political/social" commentary types. Just pure spooky nonsense, pref set in lovely small towns. For some reason I love the way his small town Americana cross breads with horror.

have you done needful things?

 

[BigMoaner]

have you done needful things?

No and that's where I think I'm heading but will wait see what others say!

 

[Pickman's model]

No and that's where I think I'm heading but will wait see what others say!

Read needful things while you wait

 

[Ax^]

Insomnia is not to bad and is set in Derry if you want comfort reading

also ties into the dark tower stuff

 

[Pickman's model]

Cell not bad either

 

[Orang Utan]

On Writing
Danse Macabre

 

[5t3IIa]

I like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon ‘Spooky’

 

[felixthecat]

Pet Semetary.

Easily the best of his small town spooky horrors. If you've seen the film completely ignore it because it was unmitigated shite. The book is pretty good.

I love his earlier scary stuff

 

[RedRedRose]

I liked the Dark Tower series. I read three or four of them about 20 years ago. He has since written a few extra. I would happily go back and re-read those.

I have also earmarked 'The Stand' that is the only stand-out premise I can really go along with.

 

[Epona]

I love Needful Things and Insomnia

 

[Doodler]

John Connolly's Charlie Parker series goes for a similar horror-Anericana mix but his output is more uneven than Stephen King's. Connolly's best one is probably The Whisperers with some bravura set pieces in it.

 

[T & P]

Not mad about many of the latter ones, but I liked Cell. However I am half way through The Institute, and so far it’s very good indeed. Feels like the Stephen King of old.

 

[Shellee]

Needful Things is one of my favourites, so if you haven’t read it, I’d go with that.
If you just want straightforward pulp fiction you might like his Bill Hodges series, Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch. Good plots and Bill Hodges and Holly very likeable. The TV series was good too.

 

[InfoBurner]

Guess you've done the Bachman books. 4 great tales but 'The Long Walk' is the one that's stuck with me for decades.

 

[xenon]

Bag of Bones
Blood and Smoke.
Only ones I’ve read TBH.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Was never a King fan until I read The Talisman as a teenager.

 

[hitmouse]

try their talisman and black house then, the latter sequel to the former

I thought Black House was terrible, but it takes all sorts, innit. Seconding the general recommendation of Needful Things. Uh, or The Regulators and Desperation, which are kind of two mirror books set in parallel universes or something? Been ages since I read any of them.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[Idris2002]

On Writing
Danse Macabre

Came to say Danse Macabre. It's his history of horror fiction, and worth reading even if you're not a fan of the genre.

 

[BigMoaner]

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