Books like Carrie
If you liked Carrie by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Outsider
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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Pet Sematary
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
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It
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.
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The Shining
Because also by Stephen King; shares tags: horror, supernatural.
The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.
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Hidden Pictures
Because shares tags: horror, supernatural.
Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.
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Punk 57
Because shares tags: bullying, high school.
Pen pals Misha and Ryen turn cruel at school while hiding who writes the letters and who takes the hits.
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The Green Mile
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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11/22/63
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life…
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'Salem's Lot
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
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The Stand
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.
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The Gunslinger
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
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Misery
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.
