Audie Awards® - APA". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019 . Retrieved February 25, 2021. Additionally, King classifies the genre into three well-defined, descending levels—terror, horror, and revulsion.

Handshake of Doom: In "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands", a man named Henry Brower mysteriously refuses to touch anyone and freaks out when a guy shakes his hand after Brower wins a card game - said guy dying of an aneurysm shortly thereafter. The protagonist investigates and eventually discovers he was cursed to have a Touch of Death after accidentally killing a boy; the story ends with Brower being Driven to Suicide and shaking his own hand. The Langoliers" — Passengers on a flight going through a storm get stranded in a dying, empty copy of their world, with a strange noise growing closer... Made into a TV miniseries. The final chapter works as a conclusion of sorts, offering a final analysis of why people feel the need to watch and read horror. His critique on the radio examines such American programs as Suspense, Inner Sanctum, and Boris Karloff, and praises Arch Oboler's Lights Out. King ultimately concludes that, as a medium for horror, radio is superior to television and films, since radio's nature requires a more active use of imagination. Cozy Voice for Catastrophes: King is acclaimed for his folksy, down-home prose, often compared to a someone telling a stories around a campfire. He uses a lot of slang, a lot of pungent metaphor, and makes frequent reference to pop culture.This shows up in several ways; as King himself has said, " write what you know." A lot of his stories are set in Maine. Many of his main characters are writers. Many have struggled or are struggling with addictions and/or marital problems. His characters, like King, have been janitors, teachers, writers, and laundry and textile-mill workers.

Thompson ultimately convinced King that if he wrote such a genre survey, he would no longer have to answer tedious, repetitive interview questions on the topic.

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The Talisman (1984) — Epic quest across America and its alternate-dimensional cousin, co-written with Peter Straub. A proposed film (and/or miniseries) adaptation has been in Development Hell since 1985, with such names as Will Smith, Michael J. Fox, and Steven Spielberg being connected with the project at various times. Tied into The Dark Tower saga. Sleeping Beauties (2017) — A mysterious epidemic causes women not to wake up. Co-written with Owen King. Approval of God: Has gone on record to state that among his favorite adaptations of his works are Carrie (1976), Stand by Me, Misery and The Mist. He has also cited Storm of the Century as his favorite TV-related project.