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To help you get ready for The Dark Tower and IT, let us test your knowledge of the horror maestro

Stephen King’s written enough books to fill Maine – but how much do you know about them?

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Which King novel was originally called Second Coming, before King’s wife, Tabitha, said it sounded like a “bad sex story”?

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In King’s debut novel, Carrie, how did Carrie’s telekinetic powers first manifest as a child?

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What is the real name of the Man in Black, the primary antagonist of the Dark Tower novels?

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King took the name of fictional Maine town Castle Rock from which classic novel?

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Which baseball team appears in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and is the subject of King’s sports biography Faithful?

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Which author does King describe as the “20th century’s greatest practitioner of the horror tale”?

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In IT, what form does Pennywise the clown take when the children confront it in the sewers?

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In the book Misery, how does Annie Wilkes punish Paul for trying to escape?

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In Doctor Sleep, a group of people feed off children with the shining. What do they call themselves?

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Which ’80s novel does King say he doesn’t remember writing because of his addiction to alcohol and drugs?

question 11

What is the name of the drug used in Firestarter, with hallucinogenic effects similar to LSD?

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In the film adaptation of The Shining, Jack Torrance dies from being trapped in the hedge maze, but how does he die in the book?

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What is the super-virus commonly known as in The Stand?

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What is the model of the evil car that torments teens in Christine?

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How many novels did King write as Richard Bachman?

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Which famous filmmaker did King co-dedicate his novel Cell to?

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What is the name of the cat that comes back to life in Pet Sematary?

question 18

How long is The Dead Zone’s Johnny Smith in a coma before waking up with psychic abilities?

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What is the original title of King’s short story that was adapted into the film Stand By Me?

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Where do David Drayton and his son hide from the supernatural Mist in King’s novella?

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