Spignesi selects and ranks the top 101 works out of the more than 550 created by King during his prolific career. Each chosen work is synopsized and reviewed by the writer that Entertainment Weekly has called "the world's leading expert on Stephen King." Fiction and nonfiction, well-known and obscure, scary and scarier-discussions of King's best short stories, novellas, screenplays, novels, essays, forewords, articles, introductions, and more are all here! From his best-selling novels (The Dead Zone, The Shining, Carrie, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary, It, Riding the Bullet, The Plant, The Dark Tower series, Insomnia), to short stories and novellas ("Survivor Type," "The Last Rung on the Ladder," "Gramma," "Shawshank Redemption"), thought-provoking nonfiction (Danse Macabre, On Writing, "Remembering John," "My Little Serrated Security Blanket," "Leaf-Peepers")...even an amazing column from King's college newspaper ("The Subject This Week is Cops")! This book provides uncompromising summation and review of King's work and is a must-have for both the serious and casual fan. Spignesi, an authority on writer Stephen King, determines King's top 101 works, encompassing novels, novellas, stories, poems, screenplays, nonfiction, and uncollected works. Each chosen work is synopsized and reviewed according to its outstanding elements, its characters, and film adaptations. Ther