Stephen King recs?

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Anonymous wrote:- Misery

- Different Seasons (contains 4 novellas, including the ones Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption were based on)

- Pet Sematary: a little supernatural-y but not too far int that direction

- Firestarter

- short stories: The Mist is specifically worth seeking out (I don't remember what collection it's in)

I also enjoyed 11/22/63 but I don't think I'd start there. The Shining, It, The Stand are not my personal favorites at all. I wouldn't ban my kids from It but I would give them a heads up that there is some material I am not comfortable with there and I sort of wish I hadn't read it as a teenager (I'm not talking about the clown, I'm talking about the "group" scene among the kids)

Different Seasons is NC-17. I haven't read it since I was a teen but I remember the story of the ex-nazi and there was creepy sex stuff in there. Also one story a pregnant woman is decapitated. I'm not saying teens shouldn't read this, as I obviously did, and it's horror, but the nazi stuff had a dildo and sex experiments with a nun with cut off legs I think. This is all from memory so obvi made an impact!
(but I'm a normal, well-adjusted adult! Who still loves to read!)

I'm the PP who wrote the quoted post above. I agree that Apt Pupil isn't for younger kids, but OP is asking for her 16yo. Also agree/acknowledge that Stephen King has a lot of weird sex stuff (which was I was trying to get at in a spoiler-free way in my comment about It). Definitely weirder and more disturbing/impactful than the more horror-y elements of his stories--to me, anyway.

Totally agree- and I didn't mean to spoil. But yes, apt pupil might be a bit over the top. She knows her 16 year old. I don't believe in book banning at all but wanted to get all that out there. I still read it and all his stuff. He's absolutely brilliant. I don't remember the freaky stuff in "It" but must have read it around the same time (15/16) --isn't it funny what stays with us?