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You’ve heard of Stephen King’s classic books like Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Cujo, It and Pet Sematary but with a career spanning 40 years and counting it’s easy to overlook some of his lesser-known works. We’ve picked 10 books written by the King of Horror that we consider to be under-rated.

1) Faithful: This non-fiction book started as an email exchange between two fans of the Boston Red Sox, Stephen King and co-author Stewart O’Nan, but turned into the next best thing to seats behind first base.

2) Rose Madder: A novel about the effects of domestic violence and one woman’s attempted escape to a better life.

3) Bag of Bones: The story follows bestselling novelist Mike Nooan as he grieves the sudden loss of his wife, subsequent writer’s block and the terrors that follow.

4) Lisey’s Story: Follow the widow of famous author, Scott Landon, as she deals with his death, learns of his special powers and the gift he left behind.

5) The Dark Half: King published this book and declared his real life pseudonymous alter ego Richard Bachman was dead. In the book, Thad Beaumont, a writer, announces his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. Unlike Bachman, Stark won’t go down without a fight.

6) The Long Walk: Written when King was a college student, this book explores the cruelty of adolescence. The Long Walk is a march that lasts until only one is left standing; the losers receive bullets to the head.

7) Heart in Atlantis: Composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives set between 1960 and 1999 – each story is deeply rooted in the 1960s and haunted by the Vietnam War.

8) From a Buick 8: When the State Patrol Troop D comes into possession of a vintage automobile they had no idea of the looming danger.

9) Needful Things: The last story about King’s fictional town, Castle Rock, Maine — follows multiple characters and a new shop in town that specializes in your heart’s secret desire.

10) The Talisman: When Jack and his mother move from New York City to New Hampshire he wonders what she’s running from. When he realizes only he can save her — it’s up to him to cross a landscape of dangers, lies and monsters.

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