Short fiction by Stephen King

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This is a list of short fiction by Stephen King. This includes short stories as well as novellas. It is arranged chronologically after first publication. In total, listed below are 114 titles.

A full listing as at 31 December 2004 with citations appears in 'The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King' by Rocky Wood, et al (ISBN 0-9750593-3-5) and at 31 December 2005 in 'Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished' (ISBN 1-58767-130-1 and ISBN 0-9750593-4-3) by Rocky Wood, et al. See also King's official website www.stephenking.com.

Contents 1 Key to superscripts 2 1960s 3 1970s 4 1980s 5 1990s 6 2000s

[edit] Key to superscripts

¹: This story has been adapted to film.
²: This story appears in Night Shift.
³: This story appears in Different Seasons.
⁴: This story appears in Skeleton Crew.
⁵: This story appears in Four Past Midnight.
⁶: This story appears in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
⁷: This story appears in Six Stories.
⁸: This story appears in Hearts in Atlantis.
⁹: This story appears in Blood and Smoke.
¹⁰: This story appears in Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales.
¹¹: This story appears in The Secretary of Dreams.

[edit] 1960s

1968

• Cain Rose Up⁴
• Here There Be Tygers⁴
• Harrison State Park '68

1969

• The Reaper's Image^{3 4}
• Stud City

[edit] 1970s

1970

• Graveyard Shift^{1 2}
• The Dark Man (poem)

1971

• The Blue Air Compressor
• I Am the Doorway²

1972

• Battleground^{1 2}
• The Mangler^{1 2}

1973

• The Boogeyman^{1 2}
• Gray Matter²
• Trucks^{1 2}

1974

• Night Surf^{1 2}
• Sometimes They Come Back^{1 2}

1975

• It Grows On You⁶
• The Lawnmower Man²
• Strawberry Spring²

1976

• I Know What You Need²
• The Ledge^{1 2}
• Weeds (a.k.a. The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill)¹

1977

• The Cat From Hell¹
• Children of the Corn^{1 2}
• The Man Who Loved Flowers²
• One for the Road²

1978

• Jerusalem's Lot^{2 11}
• The Last Rung on the Ladder²
• The Night of the Tiger
• Nona⁴
• Quitters, Inc.^{1 2}
• The Woman in the Room²

1979

• The Crate¹

[edit] 1980s

1980

• Crouch End^{1 6}
• The Mist⁴
• The Monkey⁴
• The Way Station
• The Wedding Gig⁴

1981

• The Jaunt⁴
• The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands⁴
• The Reach⁴

1982

• Apt Pupil^{1 3}
• Before the Play
• Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)⁴
• The Body^{1 3}
• The Breathing Method³
• Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)⁴
• The Raft^{1 4}
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption^{1 3}
• Survivor Type⁴

1983

• Uncle Otto's Truck⁴
• Word Processor of the Gods^{1 4}

1984

• The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet⁴
• Gramma^{1 4}
• Mrs. Todd's Shortcut⁴
• The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson¹

1985

• Beachworld⁴
• For Owen⁴
• Paranoid: A Chant⁴
• The Reaper's Image⁴

1986

• The End of the Whole Mess^{1 6}
• The Fifth Quarter^{1 6}

1987

• Popsy⁶

1988

• Dedication⁶
• The Night Flier^{1 6}
• The Reploids
• Sneakers⁶

1989

• Dolan's Cadillac⁶
• Home Delivery⁶
• My Pretty Pony⁶
• Rainy Season⁶

[edit] 1990s

1990

• An Evening at God's
• The Langoliers^{1 5}
• The Library Policeman⁵
• The Moving Finger⁶
• Secret Window, Secret Garden^{1 5}
• The Sun Dog⁵

1991

• It Grows on You⁶

1992

• Chattery Teeth^{1 6}
• You Know They Got a Hell of a Band⁶

1993

• Brooklyn August⁶
• The Doctor's Case⁶
• The House on Maple Street⁶
• Sorry, Right Number^{1 6}
• Suffer the Little Children⁶
• The Ten O'Clock People⁶
• Umney's Last Case^{1 6}

1994

• The Man in the Black Suit^{7 10}

1995

• Lunch at the Gotham Cafe^{1 7 9 10}

1997

• Autopsy Room 4^{1 7 10}
• Blind Willie^{7 8}
• Everything's Eventual¹⁰
• L.T.'s Theory of Pets^{7 10}
• Luckey Quarter^{7 10}

1998

• The Little Sisters of Eluria¹⁰
• That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French¹⁰

1999

• 1408^{9 10}
• Hearts in Atlantis^{1 8}
• Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling^{1 8}
• In the Deathroom^{9 10}
• Low Men in Yellow Coats^{1 8}
• The New Lieutenant's Rap
• The Road Virus Heads North^{1 10 11}
• Why We're In Vietnam⁸

[edit] 2000s

2000

• Riding the Bullet^{1 10}

2001

• All That You Love Will Be Carried Away¹⁰

2003

• Harvey's Dream
• Stationary Bike
• Rest Stop

2005

• The Things They Left Behind

2006

• Memory
• Willa

2007

• Graduation Afternoon