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Stephen King smiling and wearing glasses and a light blue collared shirt.

Sissy Spacek as Carrie White stands on stage in a pale gown, holding a bouquet with a large pink bow, under glittering decorations in the prom scene from the 1976 film Carrie.

Piper Laurie holds a knife and embraces Sissy Spacek in a tense scene from the film Carrie (1976), directed by Brian De Palma.

Jack Nicholson, looking distressed, crouches on the floor as Shelley Duvall kneels beside him with a concerned expression in a scene from The Shining (1980).

River Phoenix and three other boys from the cast of Stand by Me stand outdoors with arms around each other, posing for a publicity photo.

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes stands above, holding a revolver and a syringe, in a tense scene from the film Misery.

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, in prison uniforms, stand outside against a stone wall in a scene from the film The Shawshank Redemption.

Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the clown crouches menacingly in a dim room with two glowing stained glass windows in a scene from the 2017 movie IT.

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Stephen King: Media

American novelist

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Stephen King smiling and wearing glasses and a light blue collared shirt.

The master of chills and suspense

American author Stephen King, 2004.

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Sissy Spacek as Carrie White stands on stage in a pale gown, holding a bouquet with a large pink bow, under glittering decorations in the prom scene from the 1976 film Carrie.

Sissy Spacek in Carrie

In 1976 Stephen King's breakthrough novel Carrie (1974) was adapted into...

© 1976 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Piper Laurie holds a knife and embraces Sissy Spacek in a tense scene from the film Carrie (1976), directed by Brian De Palma.

Carrie

Piper Laurie (holding a knife) and Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976), Brian...

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Jack Nicholson, looking distressed, crouches on the floor as Shelley Duvall kneels beside him with a concerned expression in a scene from The Shining (1980).

The Shining

Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall in The Shining (1980), Stanley Kubrick's...

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River Phoenix and three other boys from the cast of Stand by Me stand outdoors with arms around each other, posing for a publicity photo.

Stand by Me

Actors (from left) Jerry O'Connell, River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, and Corey Feldman...

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Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes stands above, holding a revolver and a syringe, in a tense scene from the film Misery.

Misery

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990), directed by Rob Reiner.

© 1990 Columbia Pictures/Castle Rock Entertainment/Nelson Entertainment

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, in prison uniforms, stand outside against a stone wall in a scene from the film The Shawshank Redemption.

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont's prison drama The Shawshank Redemption starred Tim Robbins...

© 1994 Castle Rock Entertainment

Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the clown crouches menacingly in a dim room with two glowing stained glass windows in a scene from the 2017 movie IT.

Pennywise in the film It

Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in It (2017), a film adaptation of Stephen King's...

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Stephen King

American author Stephen King reading from his novella UR at The Morgan Library...

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Stephen King

Stephen King, 2007.

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Stephen King

Stephen King, 2004.

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