![]() ![]() ![]() The Bachman books consist of a series of gritty novels that were published from 1977 to 1984, and King has revisited the pseudonym since being outed, too. You see, King used to write under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, in order to publish more than one novel a year without overwhelming his audience. There have been plenty over the years, including “Secret Window, Secret Garden,” “1408,” and another novel on this list that we’ll get to momentarily, but The Dark Halfis probably the most “autobiographical” of the bunch. ![]() If there’s one thing King loves, it’s writing books and stories about writers. ![]() What he discovers on the other side is truly terrifying. Years later, he’s back to bring a dead woman back to “life” in order to learn more about the afterlife. After his wife and son die in a car accident, he denounces God in front of his entire congregation and is forced to leave town. The novel tells the story of a Christian minister who uses strange methods to cure the ill. Lovecraft, and Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” is quite the revelation, literally and figuratively. This homage to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the cosmic horror tales of H.P. But his 2014 novel Revival was a return to form for the writer. Things like the Detective Bill Hodges trilogy, Under the Dome, and 11/22/63 have been among his latest offerings. In recent years, the King of Horror has taken an interest in hardboiled detective and science fiction novels. ![]()
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