Stephen King – kungen av skräck!!

Stephen King (1947-)

Stephen King – han behöver knappast någon presentation. 1974 debuterade han med romanen Carrie och har sedan dess publicerat över fyrtio böcker och novellsamlingar. Han är en man som verkligen älskar det skrivna ordet, hans fru Tabitha och hans två söner är författare (varav sonen Joe Hill följt i faderns fotspår och gett sig in i skräckgenren). King brukar beskrivas som ett exempel på skräplitteratur men det är verkligen inte sant – många känsliga och hyllade filmer är baserade på Kings böcker (The Shawshank redemption, The Green mile, Stand by me) och det jag älskar mest med hans böcker är inte skräckdelarna (även om de är spännande och ruskiga) utan beskrivningen av samspelet mellan människorna och miljöbeskrivningarna. King är en otrolig skicklig författare när det gäller dessa saker. Han är också mycket produktiv, det är väl inte allt som är bra, och han har en tendens att bli långrandig och pratsjuk men när han är bra är han MYCKET bra. Två av mina absoluta älsklingsböcker (Pestens Tid och Det) är Kingböcker.

Så läs King – fast det har du säkert redan gjort! Och läs gärna Joe Hill och Tabitha King också. De är inte dumma de heller.

Kings bibliografi:

 

1974	Carrie	Doubleday	0385086954
1975	‘Salem’s Lot	Doubleday	978-0-385-00751-1	World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel, 1976[2]
1977	The Shining	Doubleday	978-0-385-12167-5	Runner-up (4th place), Locus Award, 1978[3]
1977	Rage	Signet Books	978-0-451-07645-8	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman
1978	The Stand	Doubleday	978-0-385-12168-2	Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 1979;[2] Runner-up (15th place), Locus Award, 1979[3]
1979	The Long Walk	Signet Books	978-0-451-08754-6	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman
1979	The Dead Zone	Viking Press	978-0-670-26077-5	Runner-up (2nd place), (Locus Award, 1980[3]
1980	Firestarter	Viking Press	978-0-670-31541-3	Nominee, British Fantasy Award’s August Derleth Award, 1981; Runner-up (8th place), Locus Award, 1981[3]
1981	Roadwork	Signet Books	978-0-451-09668-5	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman
1981	Cujo	Viking Press	978-0-670-45193-7	Winner, British Fantasy Award’s August Derleth Award, 1982[3]
1982	The Running Man	Signet Books	978-0-451-11508-9	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman
1982	The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger	Grant	978-0-937986-50-9
1983	Christine	Viking	978-0-670-22026-7	Nominee, Locus Award, 1984[3]
1983	Pet Sematary	Doubleday	978-0-385-18244-7	Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 1984;[2] Nominee, Locus Award, 1984[3]
1983	Cycle of the Werewolf	Land of Enchantment	978-0-960-38282-8	Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson
1984	The Talisman	Viking	978-0-670-69199-9	Written with Peter Straub; Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 1985;[2] Nominee, Locus Award, 1985[3]
1984	Thinner	NAL	978-0-453-00468-8	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman
1986	It	Viking	0-670-81302-8	Winner, British Fantasy Award, 1987; Nominee, Locus Award, 1987[3]
1987	The Eyes of the Dragon	Viking	978-0-670-81458-9
1987	The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three	Grant	978-0-937986-90-5	Nominee, Locus Award, 1988[3]
1987	Misery	Viking	978-0-670-81364-3	Winner, Bram Stoker Award, 1987;[3] Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 1988[2]
1987	The Tommyknockers	Putnam	978-0-399-13314-5	Nominee, Locus Award, 1988[3]
1989	The Dark Half	Viking	978-0-670-82982-8	Nominee, Locus Award, 1990[3]
1991	The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands	Grant	978-0-937986-17-2	Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 1991; Nominee, Locus Award, 1991[3]
1991	Needful Things	Viking	978-0-670-83953-7	Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 1991;[3] Nominee, Locus Award, 1991[3]
1992	Gerald’s Game	Viking	978-0-670-84650-4
1992	Dolores Claiborne	Viking	978-0-670-84452-4	Nominee, Locus Award, 1993[3]
1994	Insomnia	Viking	978-0-670-85503-2	Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 1994; Nominee, Locus Award, 1994[3]
1995	Rose Madder	Viking	978-0-670-85869-9	Nominee, Locus Award, 1995[3]
1996	The Green Mile	Signet Books		Winner, Bram Stoker Award, 1996; Nominee, Locus Award, 1997[3]
1996	Desperation	Viking	978-0-670-86836-0	Twin novel of The Regulators; Winner, Locus Award, 1997[3]
1996	The Regulators	Dutton	978-0-525-94190-3	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman; Twin novel of Desperation
1997	The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass	Grant	978-1-880418-38-3	Nominee, Locus Award, 1998[3]
1998	Bag of Bones	Scribner	978-0-684-85350-5	Winner, Bram Stoker Award, 1998; Winner, British Fantasy Award’s August Derleth Award, 1999; Winner, Locus Award, 1999[3]
1999	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon	Scribner	978-0-684-86762-5
2000	The Plant	Philtrum Press		Published partially in 1982/83/85/2000, Unfinished
2001	Dreamcatcher	Scribner	978-0-743-21138-3
2001	Black House	Random House	978-0-375-50439-6	Sequel to The Talisman; Written with Peter Straub; Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 2001; Nominee, Locus Award, 2001[3]
2002	From a Buick 8	Scribner	978-0-743-21137-6	Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 2002[3]
2003	The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla	Grant	978-1-880-41856-7	Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 2003; Nominee, Locus Award, 2004[3]
2004	The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah	Grant	978-1-880-41859-8	Nominee, Locus Award, 2005[3]
2004	The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower	Grant	978-1-880-41862-8	Winner, British Fantasy Award, 2005; Nominee, Bram Stoker Award, 2004[3]
2005	The Colorado Kid	Hard Case Crime	978-0-843-95584-2
2006	Cell	Scribner	978-0-743-29233-7
2006	Lisey’s Story	Scribner	978-0-743-28941-2	Winner, Bram Stoker Award, 2006; Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 2007;[2] Nominee, Locus Award, 2007[3]
2007	Blaze	Scribner	978-1-416-55484-4	Published under pseudonym Richard Bachman
2008	Duma Key	Scribner	978-1-416-55251-2	Winner, Bram Stoker Award, 2008[3]
2009	Under the Dome	Scribner	978-1-439-14850-1	Nominee, British Fantasy Award, 2010; Nominee, Locus Award, 2010[3]
2011	11/22/63	Scribner	978-1-451-62728-2	Nominee, British Fantasy Award, 2012; Nominee, Locus Award, 2012;[3] Nominee, World Fantasy Award, 2012[2]
2012	The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole	Grant	1-880418-76-2	The eighth Dark Tower novel, but chronologically set between the fourth and fifth volumes.
2013	Joyland	Hard Case Crime	978-1-781-16264-4	Nominee Edgar Award, Best Original Paperback, 2014>[4]
2013	Doctor Sleep	Scribner	978-1-476-72765-3	Sequel to The Shining; Winner, Bram Stoker Award, 2013[5]
2014	Mr. Mercedes	Scribner	978-1-476-75445-1	First novel in the Bill Hodges Trilogy; Winner, Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2015[3]
2014	Revival	Scribner	978-1-476-77038-3
2015	Finders Keepers	Scribner	978-1-501-10007-9	Second novel in the Bill Hodges Trilogy.
2016	End of Watch	Scribner	978-1-501-12974-2	Third novel in the Bill Hodges Trilogy.
2017	Sleeping Beauties	Scribner	978-1-50116-340-1	Written with Owen King
TBA	The Outsider [6]	TBA	TBA

 

Non-fiction[edit]

Title	Publication date	Pages	Notes
Danse Macabre	April 20, 1981	400	Hugo and Locus Award winner, 1982[4][33]
Nightmares in the Sky	November 1988	128	Photographed by f-stop Fitzgerald
On Writing	October 3, 2000	288	Bram Stoker and Locus Award winner, 2000[4][34]
Secret Windows	October 2000	433
Faithful	December 2, 2004	432	Written with Stewart O’Nan

E-books[edit]

Title	Publication date	Collected in	Notes
Riding the Bullet	March 14, 2000	Everything’s Eventual (2002)	Bram Stoker Award nominee, 2000[34]
The Plant	December 2000		Unfinished
Ur	February 12, 2009	The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
Mile 81	September 1, 2011	The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
A Face in the Crowd	August 21, 2012	Uncollected	Written with Stewart O’Nan

Other[edit]

Title	Publication date	Pages	Notes
Creepshow	July 1982	64	Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson
The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition	May 1990	1153	Locus Award nominee, 1991[4]
Six Stories	1997	199	Limited edition (1100 copies); collected in Everything’s Eventual (2002)
Blood and Smoke	November 22, 1999	–	Original audiobook; collected in Everything’s Eventual (2002)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: Revised and Expanded Edition	July 1, 2003	256
Stephen King Goes to the Movies	January 20, 2009	592	Contains five previously collected short stories.
American Vampire	March 2010	200	Written with Scott Snyder and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque
Blockade Billy	April 20, 2010	112	Collected in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
Guns	January 25, 2013	25	Non-fiction essay
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County	June 4, 2013	110

 

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