The Stand is Stephen King’s end-of-the world thriller that shows the destruction of mankind by a deadly pandemic. Especially, for people who truly enjoy being scared out their minds. King’s Salem Lot is not a vampire book that should be ignored. Many people have read this book and wondered if a vampire was going to enter their home and turn them into an unholy creature of the night. This is the type of book that will keep a person looking over their shoulder all night long. There are plenty of frights, scary moments and chilling twists and turns. The vampires were spreading by feasting on the locals and the hero Ben Smears takes them on with no hesitation and at all cost. It proved to be a best-selling book for its time back in 1975. This book presents a disturbing tale of vampires and how a local outcast is a town’s only hope for stopping them.
Salem’s Lot is one of King’s best works to date. Today we share our list of the Top 5 Stephen King Best-Sellers. Simply put, everyone has their own favorite horror stories by King. What are some of King’s best-selling novels (and films) throughout the years? Well, that is a very subjective question. “It is the heart of the hourglass, from which the grains of pre-modern England sift down to our contemporary world, each sentence ticking past the creative constrictions of Eliot's genius.” “The last sentence is perhaps the most moving in British fiction,” writes George Scialabba (author, The Modern Predicament).To celebrate these recent accomplishments, and Stephen King’s entire career, today we look back on his most famous books. To read Middlemarch is “to encounter an intelligence wholly sympathetic towards, and wholly unsurprised by, human foibles and frailties,” writes The Australian’s Geordie Williamson. The Wall Street Journal’s Sam Sacks calls Middlemarch “the greatest social and psychological novel ever written in English.” “Middlemarch combines a massive solid structure with the most radical doubts about the very nature of that structure,” writes Michael Gorra (author, Portrait of a Novel).“A novel of great characters, it's an even greater novel of ideas and ideals,” writes Vogue’s Megan O’Grady.
“Eliot's ability to move from beautifully etched emotional detail to the epic sweep of social change is still breathtaking,” writes Fintan O’Toole (The Irish Times). Why? “The quality of its writing and its depth of insight into character and relationships,” writes Morris Dickstein (author, Dancing in the Dark). Middlemarch won this BBC Culture poll by a landslide: 42% of the critics polled included it in their lists. Malcolm Jones of The Daily Beast says it is “the only novel that has ever enthralled me so thoroughly that I skipped ahead to find out what happened to a particular character.” “It’s sobering to confront Jarndyce and Jarndyce when you’re just launching your own career and thinking hardheadedly about money for the first time,” writes Barbara Hoffert of Library Journal. Say the names and you are there among them.” Geoffrey O’Brien of the New York Review of Books calls Bleak House “the great book of the city of grime and fog and laws”. “Braided together and working in concert, these two strands tell the tale of Esther Summerson, Honoria Deadlock, Mr Tulkinghorn, John Jarndyce, Richard Carstone, Ada Clare, Mr Guppy, Mr Krook, Nemo the copyist, Miss Flite, Jo the crossing sweeper, Herbert Skimpole, Mr Woodcourt, Sargent George, Inspector Bucket, Mr Smallweed and dozens of others. Bleak House, “is, among Dickens novels, uniquely original in its alternation of first-person past-tense chapters with a concurrent third-person account in present tense,” writes Benjamin Taylor, author of Proust: The Search.