10 books for fans of The Shining
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The Stand
by Stephen King
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A weaponized flu kills 99% of humanity, leaving survivors to choose between Mother Abagail's Boulder community or Randall Flagg's Vegas empire. King's sprawling apocalyptic masterpiece about rebuilding civilization.
★ 4.35 Goodreads (841.5K ratings) - 2
It
by Stephen King
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Seven childhood friends return to their hometown to face the shapeshifting entity that terrorized them decades earlier—King at his most ambitious, weaving horror with coming-of-age nostalgia.
★ 4.24 Goodreads (1.3M ratings) - 3
Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
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King turns vampire lore into small-town dread, following residents as they discover their neighbors are becoming something monstrous in this methodical horror classic.
★ 4.10 Goodreads (667.2K ratings) - 4
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
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Behind the Creed family's new home lies an ancient burial ground where the dead return to life, but grief makes people ignore the terrible price of resurrection.
★ 4.08 Goodreads (708.6K ratings) - 5
Cujo (1981) Stephen King 1st Print Hardback
Cujo / Rattlesnakes • Book 1
by Stephen King
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When a rabid bat infects the Castle Rock's gentle giant Saint Bernard, Cujo becomes a four-legged nightmare terrorizing a mother and son trapped in their stalled car. King strips away supernatural elements for pure psychological horror rooted in every parent's worst fears.
★ 3.80 Goodreads (324.9K ratings) - 6
Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King
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King examines the darkness within regular people through four disturbing tales: a 1922 farmer's confession to murder, a bestselling author's deadly stalker encounter, and two other studies in moral corruption. Each story peels back the veneer of civilization to expose something rotten underneath.
★ 4.09 Goodreads (118.6K ratings) - 7
Everything's Eventual
by Stephen King
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King's collection spans from familiar Castle Rock territory to completely new ground, including the O. Henry Prize-winning "The Man in the Black Suit" and thirteen other dark tales.
★ 3.97 Goodreads (109.6K ratings) - 8
Just After Sunset
by Stephen King
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This collection showcases King's mastery of short fiction with thirteen tales that blend everyday horror with supernatural dread, including the novella N about obsessive-compulsive disorder and cosmic terror.
★ 3.88 Goodreads (60.9K ratings) - 9
The Dark Half
by Stephen King
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King explores the terrifying premise of a writer's pseudonym becoming flesh and blood, committing real murders while leaving the author's fingerprints behind. Psychological horror meets supernatural thriller in this meta-fiction nightmare.
★ 3.81 Goodreads (153.5K ratings) - 10
Revival
by Stephen King
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Spanning decades, King follows a minister's dangerous experiments with electricity that culminate in the most terrifying vision of the afterlife he's ever conceived—pure cosmic horror disguised as small-town nostalgia.
★ 3.81 Goodreads (142.5K ratings)