


Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, including the classic film Stand By Me (adapted from The Body), Apt Pupil and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

1 bestsellers are Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute and The Outsider. It was on publication of his next novel Thinner that people realised the author was in fact Stephen King. Under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, King wrote horror stories for magazines, followed by a series of novels, first published in the early 80s in the collection The Bachman Books. During the years 1966-1973, just before he published the seminal masterpiece Carrie, Stephen King wrote under two names. STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.
