The story is about a boy named Jack Sawyer, who wants to save his mother, who is dying from cancer. In 1984, Stephen King teamed up with another horror/fantasy author in Peter Straub to write the novel The Talisman. The Talisman Stephen King co-wrote The Talisman with Peter Straub. Frank Darabont directed the latter film before he went on to make the big-screen movie The Shawshank Redemption. This book also contains several stories that were made into Dollar Baby Films, including the first two major adaptations for the program, The Boogeyman and The Woman in the Room. These stories include The Mangler (the movie starred Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund), Trucks (which became the movie Maximum Overdrive), Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man (which is miles better than the movie adaptation), and Children of the Corn. This is his first short story collection, published in 1978, and featuring some very famous stories thanks to the movies that came later. Stephen King got his start writing short stories, and the best selection of his stories is in the book Night Shift. Night Shift Stephen King’s Night Shift was his first short story collection. The first book sees the killer return to torment Hodges years after the officer’s retirement.Įnd of Watch brings in some of King’s supernatural storytelling, while the first book was more of a detective novel. You need to read all three books to make sense of it, but they are worth your time.īill Hodges is a former cop who had a case he never cracked concerning a man who murdered several people by running them down in a Mercedes. The book listed here is the third book in the series, which is the best.

Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch. Mercedes on the now-dead AT&T Audience network. Pic credit: Scribnerįans have had a chance to catch up with some of the Bill Hodges’ stories in the series Mr.

End of Watch Stephen King’s End of Watch was the final of the Bill Hodges’ trilogy.

End of watch by stephen king