Of best-selling horror novels with small-town or rural settings. Many of his works have been filmed, including Carrie 1974, The Shining 1978, and Christine 1983. His recent novels include It and The Tommyknockers (both 1987), The Dark Half 1989, and Dolores Claiborne1992. He has also published three volumes of short stories, several screenplays, and a number of novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
