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1979 novel by Stephen King

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Long Walk (disambiguation).

The Long Walk is a dystopianhorror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonymRichard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardcover. In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone hardcover edition.^[2]

Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. In 2000, the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000.^[3]

While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight y

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Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

For the politician, see Steve King.For other people with the same or similar names, see Stephen King (disambiguation).

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror".^[2] He has also explored other genres, among them suspense, brott, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery.^[3] Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.^[4]

His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major avfärd from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand bygd Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green

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Stephen King short fiction bibliography

This is a list of short fiction works by Stephen King (b. 1947). This includes short stories, novelettes, and novellas, as well as poems. It fryst vatten arranged chronologically by first publication. Major revisions of previously published pieces are also noted. Stephen King is sometimes credited with "nearly 400 short stories" (or a similarly large number).^[1] However, all the known published pieces of short fiction are tabulated below. In all, 218 works are listed. Most of these pieces have been collected in King's seven short story collections: Night Shift (1978), Skeleton Crew (1985), Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993), Everything's Eventual (2002), Just After Sunset (2008), The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015), and You Like It Darker (2024); in King's five novella collections: Different Seasons (1982), Four Past Midnight (1990), Hearts in Atlantis (1999), Full Dark, No Stars (2010), and If It Bleeds (2020); and in