![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, King has brought a variety of horror stories for the audience to explore different types of fears and meet all types of monsters and creatures, such as in Cujo (with a rabid Saint Bernard), Christine (a possessed car), IT (an evil, shapeshifting creature from another dimension), and Under the Dome (where a city is trapped in a glass dome-like barrier). Related: Why Stephen King Mostly Writes Horror Stories His following novel was ‘Salem’s Lot in 1975, and his third novel, The Shining (1977) established him as a preeminent author in the horror genre. In 1973, King’s first novel (though actually the fourth he wrote) was published: Carrie, which initially sold modestly and became a bestseller after Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie adaptation. Between 19, King wrote a draft for The Long Walk and an anti-war novel titled Sword in the Darkness, of which only The Long Walk was eventually published. He continued writing and selling short stories to men’s magazines, and many of them were later republished in the collection Night Shift. ![]() Stephen King’s career as a writer began in 1967 when he sold his first professional short story, “The Glass Floor”, to Startling Mysteries. ![]()
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