Stephen King has written about thirty thousand novels about psychic children, haunted things, and occasionally psychic children terrorised by haunted things. It is a market strategy that has served him well for several decades.
Stephen King began as a struggling artist whose life you can relate to in every way. Living barefoot in a caravan below the poverty line, he spent his days writing reams of unpublishable fiction and languishing in a self-induced hell of alcoholism and depression, just like you.
One day, his frustrated wife dug one of his failed manuscripts out of the garbage, and in typical wife style, nagged him into finishing it. That manuscript was the novel Carrie, which converted Stephen King almost instantly from near-hobo to bourgeois pop-culture aristocratic novel-writing cyborg.
King's prominent works, complete with comprehensive synopsis.
Carrie - Psychic child kills people.
The Shining - Haunted hotel kills people.
The Stand - An apocalyptic epic detailing humanity in the aftermath of the swine flu.
Firestarter - Psychic child kills people.
Cujo - Family dog kills people. Dog may or may not be haunted.
Christine - Haunted car kills people.
It - Haunted clown kills people.
The Tommyknockers - Aliens land. People die.
The Shawshank Redemption - No seriously, he wrote that.
Rose Madder - Seriously, who knows what this one was about.
The Dark Tower - King's epic self-insertation fanfic.
Dreamcatcher - Aliens land. People die.
From a Buick 8 - Haunted car kills people.
Cell - Zombies.
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