Carrie · 1974
A bullied high-school girl, raised by a fanatically religious mother, discovers she can move things with her mind. King's first novel, about humiliation and the price it exacts.
'Salem's Lot · 1975
A writer returns to the Maine town of his childhood and finds its residents vanishing or changing, one by one. A classic vampire story transplanted into small-town America.
The Shining · 1977
A family takes a winter caretaking job at an empty Colorado hotel cut off by snow. The father is fighting the bottle, and his young son sees things no one should.
