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Stephen King’s scariest novels, ranked
31.10.2023 - 17:33 / polygon.com
Over a nearly 50-year career, Stephen King has done plenty to earn his title as the American master of horror — but his 60-plus novels to date also spend a lot of time in the arenas of fantasy, suspense, crime, and drama. Not all Stephen King novels are scary, really, which isn’t at all a complaint: Plenty of them are breathlessly and compulsively readable without being the kind of book that pushes you to sleep with the lights on after you put it down for the night.
King has moved more and more toward suspense as he’s gotten further into his career. His 2023 book Holly is a sort of Columbo-esque murder mystery where the reader sees one of the crimes upfront, and spends the rest of the book waiting to see how the title character (Holly Gibney, of Mr. Mercedes and several other King novels and novellas) will solve the crime and what will happen when she does. It’s compelling, tense, and thrilling, and the details of that crime are memorably grotesque — but it isn’t a scary book.
Some of King’s purer horror novels, on the other hand, are designed to keep readers up at night. So don’t mistake the following for a rundown of the best Stephen King novels — that would be a completely different list. This is just a ranking of his scariest books, the ones that feel most like waking nightmares in the best way possible.
An awful lot of Revival isn’t scary. King fans might even wonder what he’s doing with this book, which seems oddly casual and methodical for most of its run — a series of check-ins between a musician and a significantly older preacher, running from the musician’s childhood to the preacher’s deathbed. But then there’s the ending, which finally pays off what’s mostly seemed like a strange literary exercise throughout. Suddenly, King goes from an almost clinical study of an odd obsession to one of the most terrifying short sequences he’s ever written, a sequence with chilling, stomach-churning implications that tap into the darkest corners of Lovecraftian cosmic dread. This isn’t a nerve-wracking novel, for the most part, but that ending almost feels like a jump scare in the way it comes after a long and comparatively mild buildup, then hits as hard as possible.
Longtime King readers will be well aware of how often he puts familiar little bits of himself into his work, whether he’s setting stories in his home state of Maine, addressing the kind of substance abuse and dependency he worked through earlier in his career, or writing about writers trying to write. Bag of Bones is the latter, but unlike other King books about writers, it barely has a foot set in the real and plausible — this is a purely supernatural book. This ghost story feels a bit like his spin on The Ring, not in terms of the
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