Stephen King has been writing scary stories since the Nixon administration, and somehow, he’s still cranking out a book or two a year like the rest of us crank out grocery lists. Mention his name, and most of us immediately think of haunted hotels, killer clowns, and possessed cars. What’s wild, though, is how many of his best thriller books have been published in just the last 25 years. The man who made you afraid of your own basement in the 70s spent the 2010s and 2020s writing some of the best crime fiction of his career. Many who stopped reading his books after his horror peak have no idea what they’re missing.

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