This is a list of short fiction by Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

. This includes short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

, novelette

Novelette

A novelette is a piece of short prose fiction. The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms is usually based upon word count, with a novelette being longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella...

s, and novella

Novella

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s, as well as poems. It is arranged chronologically by first publication. Major revisions of previously published pieces are also noted.

In all, 166 works are listed: 113 short stories, 11 novelettes, 17 novellas, and 12 poems, as well as 9 early excerpts and 4 plays written for the screen, stage, and television. Most of these pieces have been collected in the five short story collections: Night Shift (1978), Skeleton Crew (1985), Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993), Everything's Eventual (2002), and Just After Sunset (2008); and in the four novella collections: Different Seasons (1982), Four Past Midnight (1990), Hearts in Atlantis (1999), and Full Dark, No Stars (2010). However, 35 of these pieces (excluding early excerpts, stories later incorporated into longer works, and pieces published after Just After Sunset) remain uncollected.

A full listing as of December 31, 2004 with citations appears in The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King by Rocky Wood, et al. (ISBN 0-9750593-3-5); as of December 31, 2005 in Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished (ISBN 1-58767-130-1 and ISBN 0-9750593-4-3) by Rocky Wood, et al.; and as of late 2007 in Justin Brooks' Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World’s Most Popular Author (ISBN 1-58767-153-0). See also King's official website www.stephenking.com.

1950s

1959

• Jumper (short story)
• Land of 1,000,000 Years Ago (short story)
• Thirty-One of the Classics (novella)

1960s

1960

• The Cursed Expedition
  People, Places and Things
  People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapeled together pages, yet can offer a glimpse into King's very...
  
  (short story)
• I've Got to Get Away!
  People, Places and Things
  People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapeled together pages, yet can offer a glimpse into King's very...
  
  (short story)
• Hotel at the End of the Road
  People, Places and Things
  People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapeled together pages, yet can offer a glimpse into King's very...
  
  (short story)
• Never Look Behind You (short story)
• The Other Side of the Fog
  People, Places and Things
  People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapeled together pages, yet can offer a glimpse into King's very...
  
  (short story)
• Rush Call (short story)
• The Stranger
  People, Places and Things
  People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapeled together pages, yet can offer a glimpse into King's very...
  
  (short story)
• The Thing at the Bottom of the Well
  People, Places and Things
  People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapeled together pages, yet can offer a glimpse into King's very...
  
  (short story)

1961

• The Pit and the Pendulum (short story)

1964

• The Star Invaders] (short story)

1965

• Codename: Mousetrap (short story)
• I Was a Teenage Grave Robber (short story)

1966

• The 43rd Dream (short story)

1967

• The Glass Floor (short story)

1968

• Cain Rose Up
  Cain Rose Up
  "Cain Rose Up" is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the Spring 1968 issue of Ubris magazine, and collected in King's Skeleton Crew in 1985. It deals with a depressed and homicidal college student, Curt Garrish, who goes on a murderous sniper rampage from his dorm room....
  
  (short story)
• Here There Be Tygers
  Here There Be Tygers (1968 short story)
  "Here There Be Tygers" is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the Spring 1968 issue of Ubris magazine, and collected in King's Skeleton Crew in 1985...
  
  (short story)
• Harrison State Park '68 (poem)
• Strawberry Spring
  Strawberry Spring
  "Strawberry Spring" is a horror short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the Fall 1968 issue of Ubris magazine, and collected in King's Night Shift in 1978. It employs a twist ending.-Setting:...
  
  (short story, subsequently collected heavily revised)

1969

• The Dark Man (poem)
• Night Surf
  Night Surf
  "Night Surf" is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen King, first published in the spring 1969 issue of Ubris magazine, and later collected in a heavily revised version in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story, subsequently collected heavily revised)
• The Reaper's Image
  The Reaper's Image
  "The Reaper's Image" is a horror story by Stephen King, first published in Startling Mystery Stories in 1969 and collected in Skeleton Crew in 1985...
  
  (short story, subsequently collected heavily revised)
• Stud City (short story, subsequently incorporated into The Body
  The Body (novella)
  The Body, or Fall from Innocence, is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons and in 1986 adapted into the acclaimed film Stand by Me...
  
  )

1970s

1970

• Graveyard Shift
  Graveyard Shift
  "Graveyard Shift" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift...
  
  (short story)
• Donovan's Brain (poem)
• Silence (poem)
• Slade (short story)

1971

• The Blue Air Compressor
  The Blue Air Compressor
  The Blue Air Compressor is a short story by Stephen King, first published in January 1971 in Onan Magazine . It was revised and reprinted in the magazine Heavy Metal in July 1981. King himself narrates this story...
  
  (short story, subsequently revised in 1981)
• Brooklyn August
  Brooklyn August
  Brooklyn August is a poem by Stephen King that first appeared in 1971 in Io magazine and was later collected in King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes in 1993...
  
  (poem)
• I Am the Doorway
  I Am the Doorway
  "I Am the Doorway" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1971 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• In the Key Chords of Dawn (poem)
• The Hardcase Speaks (poem)
• She Has Gone to Sleep While... (poem)
• Woman with Child (poem)

1972

• Battleground (short story)
• The Fifth Quarter (short story)
• The Mangler
  The Mangler
  "The Mangler" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the December 1972 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:...
  
  (short story)
• Suffer the Little Children
  Suffer the Little Children
  "Suffer the Little Children" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published by Cavalier in February, 1972. The story was later published as part of the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes in 1993...
  
  (short story)

1973

• The Boogeyman
  The Boogeyman
  "The Boogeyman" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine Cavalier, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• Gray Matter (short story)
• It Grows on You
  It Grows On You
  "It Grows On You" is a short story written by author Stephen King and originally published in Marshroots, volume 3, no. 1, Fall 1973, later revised and published in August 1982 in Whispers, and again revised for the 1993 short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.-Plot summary:The story...
  
  (short story, subsequently revised in 1982, and collected revised again in 1993)
• Trucks
  Trucks (short story)
  "Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:"Trucks" takes place in a truck-stop in the United States...
  
  (short story)

1974

• Sometimes They Come Back
  Sometimes They Come Back
  "Sometimes They Come Back" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of Cavalier and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:...
  
  (short story)

1975

• The Lawnmower Man
  The Lawnmower Man
  "The Lawnmower Man" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the May 1975 issue of Cavalier, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan (short story, subsequently incorporated into The Body
  The Body (novella)
  The Body, or Fall from Innocence, is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons and in 1986 adapted into the acclaimed film Stand by Me...
  
  )

1976

• I Know What You Need
  I Know What You Need
  "I Know What You Need" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the September 1976 issue of Cosmopolitan, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• The Ledge
  The Ledge
  "The Ledge" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the July 1976 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• Weeds
  Weeds (short story)
  "Weeds" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story, collected as The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill in comic book form in Creepshow
  Creepshow
  Creepshow is a 1982 American horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King. The film's ensemble cast included Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, E.G...
  
  )

1977

• The Cat from Hell
  The Cat from Hell
  The Cat from Hell is a short story by Stephen King. King initially published the first 500 words of the story in March 1977 in Cavalier, and the magazine held a contest for readers to finish the story. The winning entry, as well as King's complete story, was published in the magazine in June of...
  
  (short story)
• Children of the Corn
  Children of the Corn
  "Children of the Corn" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.- Plot summary :...
  
  (short story)
• The King Family and the Wicked Witch (short story)
• The Man Who Loved Flowers
  The Man Who Loved Flowers
  "The Man Who Loved Flowers" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the August 1977 issue of Gallery, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• One for the Road (short story)

1978

• Jerusalem's Lot
  Jerusalem's Lot
  "Jerusalem's Lot" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting and style:"Jerusalem's Lot" is an epistolary short story set in the fictional town of Preacher's Corners, Maine, in 1850...
  
  (short story)
• The Gunslinger
  The Gunslinger (novella)
  "The Gunslinger" is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1978. In 1982, "The Gunslinger" was collected with four other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger...
  
  (novelette, collected revised in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger)
• The Last Rung on the Ladder
  The Last Rung on the Ladder
  "The Last Rung on the Ladder" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:The protagonist is burdened with deep guilt and regret after discovering that his estranged sister has committed suicide. He recounts one fateful day long ago when...
  
  (short story)
• Man with a Belly (short story)
• The Night of the Tiger (short story)
• Nona (short story)
• Quitters, Inc.
  Quitters, Inc.
  "Quitters, Inc." is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.- Plot summary :The main character, Richard "Dick" Morrison, is a middle-aged man who smokes. One day he has a chance meeting with his old college roommate James "Jim" McCann who advises him to...
  
  (short story)
• The Woman in the Room
  The Woman in the Room
  "The Woman In The Room" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:Narrated from the perspective of a man burdened with deep remorse, pain and his inner demons, the story concerns his decision to euthanize his terminally ill mother with...
  
  (short story)

1979

• The Crate
  The Crate
  "The Crate" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the July 1979 issue of Gallery. In 1982, the story was adapted as a segment in the movie Creepshow, and included in comic-book form in the Creepshow graphic novella....
  
  (short story, collected in comic book form in Creepshow
  Creepshow
  Creepshow is a 1982 American horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King. The film's ensemble cast included Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, E.G...
  
  )

1980s

1980

• Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)
  Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2)
  "Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game " is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the 1980 anthology New Terrors, edited by Ramsey Campbell, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew....
  
  (short story)
• Crouch End
  Crouch End (short story)
  Crouch End is a horror story by Stephen King, originally published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos , and republished in a slightly different version in King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection . It contains distinct references to the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft...
  
  (short story)
• The Mist
  The Mist
  The Mist is a horror novella by the American author Stephen King, in which the small town of Bridgton, Maine is suddenly enveloped in an unnatural mist that conceals otherworldly monsters. It was first published as the first and longest story of the 1980 horror anthology Dark Forces. A slightly...
  
  (novella)
• The Monkey
  The Monkey
  "The Monkey" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in Gallery magazine in 1980. It was significantly revised and published in King's collection Skeleton Crew in 1985.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• The Way Station
  The Way Station
  "The Way Station" is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in April 1980. In 1982, "The Way Station" was collected with several other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger...
  
  (novelette, collected revised in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger)
• The Wedding Gig
  The Wedding Gig
  The Wedding Gig is a short story by Stephen King first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1980 and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.- Plot summary :...
  
  (short story)

1981

• The Bird and the Album (early excerpt from It
  It (novel)
  It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous inter-dimensional predatory life-form that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It"...
  
  )
• The Gunslinger and the Dark Man
  The Gunslinger and the Dark Man
  "The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in November 1981. In 1982, "The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" was collected with several other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction...
  
  (short story, collected revised in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger)
• The Jaunt (short story)
• The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands
  The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands
  "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" is a short story by Stephen King first published in the 1982 horror anthology Shadows 4, edited by Charles L...
  
  (short story)
• The Monster in the Closet (early excerpt from Cujo
  Cujo
  Cujo is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982, and was made into a film in 1983....
  
  )
• The Oracle and the Mountains
  The Oracle and the Mountains
  "The Oracle and the Mountains" is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in February 1981. In 1982, "The Oracle and the Mountains" was collected with several other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as...
  
  (short story, collected revised in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger)
• The Reach
  The Reach
  The Reach is a short story by Stephen King. First published in Yankee in 1981 under the title "Do the Dead Sing?", it was later collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. It was also included in American Gothic Tales in 1996....
  
  (short story)
• The Slow Mutants
  The Slow Mutants
  "The Slow Mutants" is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July 1981. In 1982, "The Slow Mutants" was collected with four other stories King published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger...
  
  (novelette, collected revised in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger)

1982

• Apt Pupil
  Apt Pupil
  Apt Pupil is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons, subtitled "Summer of Corruption".-Format of the story:Apt Pupil consists of 29 chapters, many of which are headed by a month...
  
  (novella)
• Before the Play (unused prologue to The Shining
  The Shining (novel)
  The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The title was inspired by the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on…". It was King's third published novel, and first hardback bestseller, and the success of the book firmly established King...
  
  )
• The Body
  The Body (novella)
  The Body, or Fall from Innocence, is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons and in 1986 adapted into the acclaimed film Stand by Me...
  
  (novella)
• The Breathing Method
  The Breathing Method
  The Breathing Method is a novella by Stephen King which was released as part of his Different Seasons collection in 1982, and is currently the only story in the collection not to have been made into a movie. It is placed in the section entitled "A Winter's Tale".-Plot:David, the narrator of the...
  
  (short story)
• The Raft (short story)
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
  Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
  Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King, from his collection Different Seasons . It has been hailed by critics as King's "greatest work", and "masterpiece". The novella was adapted for the screen in 1994 as The Shawshank Redemption, itself a lauded film, nominated for...
  
  (novella)
• Skybar (partial short story)
• Survivor Type (short story)

1983

• The Return of Timmy Baterman (early excerpt from Pet Sematary
  Pet Sematary
  Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by Stephen King. It was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and was later made into a film of the same name.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Uncle Otto's Truck
  Uncle Otto's Truck
  Uncle Otto's Truck is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in Yankee in 1983, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• Word Processor of the Gods (short story)

1984

• The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
  The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
  The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet is a novella by Stephen King first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew...
  
  (novelette)
• Beachworld
  Beachworld
  "Beachworld" is a short science fiction story by Stephen King, first published in Weird Tales in 1984, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.-Plot summary:"Beachworld" is set at an unspecified time in the distant future...
  
  (short story)
• Gramma
  Gramma (short story)
  "Gramma" is a short story by Stephen King first published in Weirdbook magazine in 1984, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. Certain characters/creatures/unearthly powers featured in the works of H.P...
  
  (short story)
• Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
  Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
  Mrs. Todd's Shortcut is a story by Stephen King, first published in the May 1984 issue of Redbook magazine, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• The Revelations of Becka Paulson (early excerpt from The Tommyknockers
  The Tommyknockers
  The Tommyknockers is a 1987 horror novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is more of an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods.In his...
  
  )

1985

• Dolan's Cadillac
  Dolan's Cadillac
  Dolan’s Cadillac is a short story by Stephen King. It is included in Nightmares and Dreamscapes, King's fifth collection of short stories.The story is narrated by the protagonist, a schoolteacher, and there is only one other main character, Dolan....
  
  (novelette)
• For Owen
  For Owen
  For Owen is a poem by Stephen King first published in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. The thirty-four line free verse poem consists of eleven unrhymed, unmetered verse paragraphs. The poem concerns King walking his son Owen to school, as the boy describes a fantastical school attended by...
  
  (poem)
• Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)
  Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)
  "Morning Deliveries " is a short story by Stephen King published in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. The story follows the morning route of a milkman named Spike Milligan, who leaves various "surprises" in the milk bottles for his customers to find, including poisonous liquids, deadly gas, and...
  
  (short story)
• Paranoid: A Chant
  Paranoid: A Chant
  "Paranoid: A Chant" is a 100-line poem by Stephen King originally published in the 1985 short story collection Skeleton Crew.-Synopsis:The poem is a first-person narrative from the diary of a paranoid schizophrenic person, the character complains of persecution from "the old woman in the room...
  
  (poem)

1986

• The End of the Whole Mess
  The End of the Whole Mess
  "The End of the Whole Mess" is a short science fiction story by Stephen King which was first published in Omni Magazine in 1986, and later published in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse .-Plot summary:The story, narrated by Howard Fornoy in the...
  
  (short story)
• For the Birds (short story)

1987

• The Doctor's Case
  The Doctor's Case
  The Doctor's Case is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a 1987 centennial collection, and reprinted in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes...
  
  (short story)
• Popsy (short story)

1988

• Dedication (novelette)
• The Night Flier
  The Night Flier
  "The Night Flier" is a horror short story by Stephen King, first published in the anthology Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror, and then in King's own 1993 Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection....
  
  (short story)
• The Reploids
  The Reploids
  "The Reploids" is an uncollected short story by Stephen King. It was published in the 1988 book Dark Visions.-Plot summary:Edward Paladin shows up in place of Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, but all is not what it seems...
  
  (short story)
• Sneakers (short story)

1989

• Home Delivery (short story)
• My Pretty Pony
  My Pretty Pony
  "My Pretty Pony" is a short story written by Stephen King and illustrated by the artist Barbara Kruger. It was the sixth publication in the Whitney Museum of American Art artist and writer series. An original limited artist edition of 250 was published in 1989 and was an oversized fine press...
  
  (short story)
• Rainy Season (short story)

1990s

1990

• An Evening at God's (play)
• The Bear (early excerpt from The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
• The Langoliers
  The Langoliers
  "The Langoliers" is one of four novellas published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990.- Plot summary :On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared.The ten remaining...
  
  (novella)
• The Library Policeman
  The Library Policeman
  The Library Policeman is a novella by author Stephen King. It is the third story in his 1990 collection Four Past Midnight.It tells of Sam Peebles and his battle against an age-old fear.-Plot summary:...
  
  (novella)
• The Moving Finger (short story)
• Secret Window, Secret Garden
  Secret Window, Secret Garden
  Secret Window, Secret Garden is one of four novellas published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990. It is similar to King's earlier novel The Dark Half...
  
  (novella)
• The Sun Dog
  The Sun Dog
  The Sun Dog is one of four novellas by Stephen King appearing in the book Four Past Midnight, published September 1990.- Plot :Kevin Delevan receives a Sun 660 Polaroid camera for his fifteenth birthday...
  
  (novella)

1992

• Chattery Teeth
  Chattery Teeth (short story)
  Chattery Teeth is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was published in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
  You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
  "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the horror anthology Shock Rock and later included in King's collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, concerning a young couple on a road trip in Oregon when they accidentally wander into a small town...
  
  (short story)

1993

• The Beggar and the Diamond
  The Beggar and the Diamond
  The Beggar and the Diamond is a re-telling of a Hindu parable written by Stephen King which was published as part of his 1993 short story collection, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It begins with an author's note explaining that the origin of the story and that in the original Hindu version of the...
  
  (short story)
• The House on Maple Street
  The House On Maple Street
  The House On Maple Street is a short story written by Stephen King and published in his collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It was one of several stories first published in that volume. It has also been recorded as an audio book, read by the author's wife, Tabitha King...
  
  (short story)
• Jhonathan and the Witchs (short story, written in 1956)
• Sorry, Right Number
  Sorry, Right Number
  Sorry, Right Number is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series Tales From The Darkside. It was later in King's short story collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and is the only such work that King has included in any of his anthologies...
  
  (teleplay, written in 1987)
• The Ten O'Clock People
  The Ten O'Clock People
  Ten O'Clock People is a short story by Stephen King published in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection. Unlike many of King's stories which take place in fictional places like Castle Rock, Maine, "Ten O'Clock People" takes place in the distinctly recognizable Boston, Massachusetts.-Plot...
  
  (short story)
• Umney's Last Case
  Umney's Last Case
  Umney's Last Case is a short story written by Stephen King and published as a separate booklet as part of Penguin's 60th anniversary...
  
  (short story)

1994

• Blind Willie (novelette, subsequently collected heavily revised)
• Dino (poem)
• The Killer (short story, written in mid-1960s)
• The Man in the Black Suit
  The Man in the Black Suit
  "The Man in the Black Suit" is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the October 31, 1994 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 1995, it won the World Fantasy Award and the O. Henry Award for Best Short Fiction. In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection Six...
  
  (short story)

1995

• Luckey Quarter
  Luckey Quarter
  Luckey Quarter is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the June 30/July 2, 1995 issue of USA Weekend. In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection Six Stories...
  
  (short story)
• Lunch at the Gotham Café
  Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
  Lunch at the Gotham Cafe is a short story by Stephen King. It originally appeared in the 1995 anthology Dark Love . In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection Six Stories...
  
  (short story)

1997

• Autopsy Room Four
  Autopsy Room Four
  "Autopsy Room Four" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the anthology Robert Bloch's Psychos in 1997 and appeared in King's limited-edition collection Six Stories the same year. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual. It was adapted into a...
  
  (short story)
• Everything's Eventual (novelette)
• General (screenplay, written in 1985)
• L. T.'s Theory of Pets (short story)

1998

• The Little Sisters of Eluria
  The Little Sisters of Eluria
  "The Little Sisters of Eluria" is a novella by Stephen King. It was originally published in 1998 in the collection Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy...
  
  (novelette)
• That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
  That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
  That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the June 22, 1998 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual...
  
  (short story)

1999

• 1408
  1408 (short story)
  "1408" is a novella by Stephen King. It is the second tale in the audiobook collection titled Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. In 2002, it was collected in written form as the twelfth story in King's collection Everything's Eventual...
  
  (short story)
• Hearts in Atlantis
  Hearts in Atlantis
  Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order....
  
  (novella)
• Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling
  Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling
  Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling is the last and shortest of the five interconnected novellas collected in Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King....
  
  (short story)
• In the Deathroom
  In the Deathroom
  In the Deathroom is a short story by Stephen King. Originally, it appeared in the 1999 audiobook Blood and Smoke. In 2000, it was first published in written form in Secret Windows...
  
  (short story)
• Low Men in Yellow Coats (novella)
• The New Lieutenant's Rap
  The New Lieutenant's Rap
  "The New Lieutenant's Rap" is a short story by Stephen King.The story was originally published as a chapbook by Philtrum Press and given away to attendees at Stephen King's 25th publishing anniversary party on April 6, 1999....
  
  (early excerpt from Why We're In Vietnam)
• The Road Virus Heads North
  The Road Virus Heads North
  "The Road Virus Heads North" is a short story by Stephen King. This story first appeared in 999, an anthology published in 1999 and edited by Al Sarrantonio. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual....
  
  (short story)
• Why We're In Vietnam (novelette)

2000s

2000

• The Old Dude's Ticker (short story, written in early 1970s)
• Riding the Bullet
  Riding the Bullet
  Riding the Bullet is a novella by Stephen King. This work marks King's debut on the Internet. Simon & Schuster, with technology by SoftLock, first published Riding the Bullet in 2000 as the world's first mass-market electronic book, available for download at $2.50...
  
  (novelette)

2001

• All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
  All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
  All That You Love Will Be Carried Away is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the January 29, 2001 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• Calla Bryn Sturgis
  Calla Bryn Sturgis
  Calla Bryn Sturgis is the fictional locale of the first major battle that Roland Deschain's ka-tet faces on their journey to the Dark Tower, in Stephen King's epic series...
  
  (early excerpt from The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla)
• The Death of Jack Hamilton
  The Death of Jack Hamilton
  The Death of Jack Hamilton is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the December 24/31, 2001 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection Everything's Eventual...
  
  (short story)

2003

• Harvey's Dream
  Harvey's Dream
  "Harvey's Dream" is a short story written by Stephen King, originally published in The New Yorker in June 2003 and later included in King's short story collection Just After Sunset in 2008.-Plot:...
  
  (short story)
• Rest Stop
  Rest Stop (short story)
  Rest Stop is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in the December 2003 issue of Esquire, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (short story)
• Stationary Bike
  Stationary Bike
  "Stationary Bike" is a novella written by Stephen King, which was originally published in the fifth edition of From the Borderlands in 2003. It was recently released as part of King's 2008 short story anthology, Just After Sunset.-Synopsis:...
  
  (short story)
• The Tale of Gray Dick (early excerpt from The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla)

2004

• Lisey and the Madman (early excerpt from Lisey's Story
  Lisey's Story
  Lisey's Story is a novel by Stephen King combining the elements of psychological horror and romance. It was released on October 24, 2006, and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2007.-Plot:...
  
  )

2005

• The Furnace (partial short story)
• The Things They Left Behind
  The Things They Left Behind
  "The Things They Left Behind" is short story by Stephen King, originally published in the compilation Terror's Echo edited by Ed McBain and published by Forge Books...
  
  (short story)

2006

• Memory
  Memory (Stephen King)
  "Memory" is a short story by Stephen King that was originally published in the "summer reading" issue of Tin House magazine in July 2006. It is now confirmed to be similar to the first chapter of Duma Key...
  
  (early excerpt from Duma Key
  Duma Key
  Duma Key is a horror novel by American novelist Stephen King published in 2008. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. It is King's first novel to be set in Florida or Minnesota.-Plot:...
  
  , collected in Blaze
  Blaze (novel)
  Blaze is a crime novel by Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact it was written before Carrie and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as Salem's Lot...
  
  )
• Willa (short story)

2007

• Ayana
  Ayana (short story)
  "Ayana" is a short story by Stephen King that was originally published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Paris Review, and later included in King's collection Just After Sunset in November of 2008.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)
• Graduation Afternoon
  Graduation Afternoon
  "Graduation Afternoon" is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in the March 2007 issue of Postscripts, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset...
  
  (short story)
• The Gingerbread Girl
  The Gingerbread Girl
  "The Gingerbread Girl" is a novella by Stephen King that was originally published in the July issue of Esquire magazine on June 15 of 2007. It was later included in King's Just After Sunset collection in 2008. "The Gingerbread Girl" was also released as an audiobook, read by Mare Winningham, by...
  
  (novella)
• Mute
  Mute (short story)
  Mute is a short story by author Stephen King, first appearing in Playboy Magazine in 2007 and in 2008 included in his collection Just After Sunset.-Plot summary:...
  
  (short story)

2008

• N.
  N.
  N. is a novella written by Stephen King that appears in his collection Just After Sunset .-Plot summary:In the outer circle of a nested narrative, a woman named Sheila writes to her childhood friend Charlie about her brother Johnny, a psychiatrist who recently committed suicide...
  
  (novella)
• The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
  The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
  The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in the October/November 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset....
  
  (short story)
• A Very Tight Place
  A Very Tight Place
  A Very Tight Place is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the May 2008 issue of McSweeney's, and collected in King's 2008 collection Just After Sunset.-Plot summary:...
  
  (novella)

2009

• Throttle
  Throttle (novella)
  Throttle is a novella written in co-authorship by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. It was published in February 2009 by Gauntlet Press in a limited edition anthology honoring Richard Matheson entitled He Is Legend, and in a mass-market audiobook entitled Road Rage, also containing Matheson's...
  
  (novella, in collaboration with Joe Hill
  Joe Hill (writer)
  Joseph Hillstrom King , better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published two novels—Heart Shaped Box and Horns—and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the graphic novel series Locke & Key...
  
  )
• Morality (short story, collected in Blockade Billy
  Blockade Billy
  Blockade Billy is a 2010 novella by Stephen King. It tells the story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely, a fictional catcher who briefly played for the New Jersey Titans during the 1957 season. It took King two weeks to write it...
  
  )
• Ur
  Ur (novella)
  Ur is a novella by Stephen King. It was written exclusively for the platform Amazon Kindle, and became available for download on February 12, 2009. It was later released on audiobook.-Release:King said, speaking about Ur:...
  
  (novella)
• Mostly Old Men (poem)
• The Bone Church
  The Bone Church
  The Bone Church is a poem by Stephen King published in the November 2009 issue of Playboy. The poem is narrative. It was illustrated with paintings by Phil Hale.-References:* "," Alison Flood, 4 Nov 2009...
  
  (poem)
• Premium Harmony
  Premium Harmony
  "Premium Harmony" is a 3,700-word short story by American author Stephen King. It was published in the November 2009 issue of The New Yorker magazine...
  
  (short story)

2010s

2010

• Tommy (poem)
• Blockade Billy
  Blockade Billy
  Blockade Billy is a 2010 novella by Stephen King. It tells the story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely, a fictional catcher who briefly played for the New Jersey Titans during the 1957 season. It took King two weeks to write it...
  
  (novella)
• 1922
  1922 (novella)
  1922 is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars .-Synopsis:1922 is a first-person account by Wilfred James, the story's unreliable narrator. He writes a lengthy confession for the murder of his wife, Arlette, in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, in 1922.Wilfred owns...
  
  (novella)
• Big Driver
  Big Driver
  Big Driver is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars .-Synopsis:Tess is a successful cozy mystery writer who appears at a speaking engagement at a library in Chicopee, Massachusetts. After the event, Ramona Norville, a librarian who had invited Tess to the event,...
  
  (novella)
• Fair Extension
  Fair Extension
  Fair Extension is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars .-Synopsis:On his way home, Dave Streeter sees a man with a setup by the road to the airport. He goes out and talks with the man, George Elvid, who tells Streeter that he sells extensions of various types...
  
  (novella)
• A Good Marriage
  A Good Marriage
  A Good Marriage is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars .-Synopsis:Darcy Anderson has been married to Bob, a partner at a Portland, Maine accounting firm, for 27 years. They have two children, Donnie and Petra, who have left home for college. They also have a...
  
  (novella)

2011

• Herman Wouk is Still Alive
  Herman Wouk is Still Alive
  "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive" is a 6,500-word short story by American author Stephen King. It was originally published in the May 2011 issue of The Atlantic magazine....
  
  (short story)
• Under the Weather (short story)
• The Little Green God of Agony (short story)
• Mile 81 (novella)
• The Dune (short story)