Stephen King short fiction bibliography
This is a list of short fiction by Stephen King. This includes short stories, novelettes, and novellas, as well as poems. It is arranged chronologically by first publication. Major revisions of previously published pieces are also noted. Stephen King is sometimes credited with "nearly 400 short stories". However, all the known published pieces of short fiction are tabulated below. In all, 208 works are listed. Most of these pieces have been collected in King's six short story collections: Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Everything's Eventual, Just After Sunset, and The Bazaar of Bad Dreams ; and in King's five novella collections: Different Seasons, Four Past Midnight, Hearts in Atlantis, Full Dark, No Stars, and If It Bleeds. Some of these pieces, however, remain uncollected.
1950s
1959
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Land of 1,000,000 Years Ago" | short story | Uncollected | Self-published | |
| "Thirty-One of the Classics" | novella | Uncollected | Self-published | |
| "Jumper" | short story | Dave's Rag | Secret Windows | Self-published |
1960s
1960
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Rush Call" | short story | Dave's Rag | Secret Windows | Self-published |
| "The Cursed Expedition" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "I've Got to Get Away!" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "Hotel at the End of the Road" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "Never Look Behind You" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "The Other Side of the Fog" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "The Stranger" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "The Thing at the Bottom of the Well" | short story | People, Places and Things | Uncollected | Self-published |
1961
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Pit and the Pendulum" | short story | The Pit and the Pendulum | Uncollected | Self-published |
1963
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Undead" | short story | The Undead | Uncollected | Self-published |
| "Trigger Finger" | short story | Trigger Finger | Uncollected | Self-published |
1964
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Star Invaders" | short story | The Star Invaders | Uncollected | Self-published |
1965
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Codename: Mousetrap" | short story | The Drum | Uncollected | Lisbon Falls High School publication |
| "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber" | short story | Comics Review | Uncollected | First published in Comics Review, 1965. Later reprinted in Stories of Suspense retitled as “In a Half-World of Terror”. Partly reprinted in The Stephen King Illustrated Companion. |
1966
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The 43rd Dream" | short story | The Drum | Uncollected | Lisbon Falls High School publication |
1967
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Glass Floor" | short story | Startling Mystery Stories | Uncollected | First professional story |
1968
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Cain Rose Up" | short story | Ubris | Skeleton Crew | |
| "Here There Be Tygers" | short story | Ubris | Skeleton Crew | |
| "Harrison State Park '68" | poem | Ubris | Uncollected | |
| "Strawberry Spring" | short story | Ubris | Night Shift | Collected heavily revised |
1969
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Night Surf" | short story | Ubris | Night Shift | Collected heavily revised |
| "The Reaper's Image" | short story | Startling Mystery Stories | Skeleton Crew | Collected heavily revised |
| "The Dark Man" | poem | Ubris | Uncollected | Republished as a standalone book |
| "Stud City" | short story | Ubris | Uncollected | Incorporated into The Body |
1970s
1970
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Slade" | short story | The Maine Campus | Uncollected | |
| "Graveyard Shift" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "Donovan's Brain" | poem | Moth | Uncollected | |
| "Silence" | poem | Moth | Uncollected |
1971
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Blue Air Compressor" | short story | Onan | Uncollected | Republished revised in Heavy Metal |
| "In the Key Chords of Dawn" | poem | Onan | Uncollected | |
| "I Am the Doorway" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "Brooklyn August" | poem | Io #10 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "She Has Gone to Sleep While..." | poem | Contraband #1 | Uncollected | |
| "Woman with Child" | poem | Contraband #1 | Uncollected | |
| "The Hardcase Speaks" | poem | Contraband #2 | Uncollected |
1972
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Suffer the Little Children" | short story | Cavalier | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "The Fifth Quarter" | short story | Cavalier | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | As John Swithen |
| "Battleground" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "The Mangler" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift |
1973
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Boogeyman" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "Trucks" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "Gray Matter" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "It Grows on You" | short story | Marshroots | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Republished revised in Whispers, collected further revised Locus Award nominee, 1983 |
1974
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Sometimes They Come Back" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift |
1975
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Lawnmower Man" | short story | Cavalier | Night Shift | |
| "The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan" | short story | The Maine Review | Uncollected | Incorporated into The Body |
1976
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Weeds" | short story | Cavalier | Uncollected | Appears in comic book form in Creepshow as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" |
| "The Ledge" | short story | Penthouse | Night Shift | |
| "I Know What You Need" | short story | Cosmopolitan | Night Shift |
1977
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Children of the Corn" | short story | Penthouse | Night Shift | |
| "One for the Road" | short story | Maine | Night Shift | |
| "The Cat from Hell" | short story | Cavalier | Just After Sunset | |
| "The King Family and the Wicked Witch" | short story | Flint | Uncollected | |
| "The Man Who Loved Flowers" | short story | Gallery | Night Shift |
1978
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Jerusalem's Lot" | short story | Night Shift | Night Shift | |
| "The Last Rung on the Ladder" | short story | Night Shift | Night Shift | |
| "Quitters, Inc." | short story | Night Shift | Night Shift | |
| "The Woman in the Room" | short story | Night Shift | Night Shift | |
| "The Night of the Tiger" | short story | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Uncollected | |
| "Nona" | short story | Shadows | Skeleton Crew | |
| "The Gunslinger" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Collected revised Locus Award nominee, 1978 | |
| "Man with a Belly" | short story | Cavalier | Uncollected |
1979
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Crate" | short story | Gallery | Uncollected | Appears in comic book form in Creepshow Locus Award nominee, 1980 |
1980s
1980
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Mist" | novella | Dark Forces | Skeleton Crew | World Fantasy and Locus Award nominee, 1981 |
| "Crouch End" | short story | New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | British Fantasy Award nominee, 1981 |
| "The Way Station" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Collected revised Nebula and Locus Award nominee, 1981 | |
| "" | short story | New Terrors | Skeleton Crew | |
| "The Monkey" | short story | Gallery | Skeleton Crew | Collected heavily revised |
| "The Wedding Gig" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Skeleton Crew |
1981
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Oracle and the Mountains" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | ' | Collected revised |
| "The Jaunt" | short story | The Twilight Zone Magazine | Skeleton Crew | |
| "The Slow Mutants" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | ' | Collected revised |
| "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" | short story | Shadows 4 | Skeleton Crew | |
| "The Monster in the Closet" | short story | Ladies' Home Journal | Uncollected | Incorporated into Cujo |
| "The Bird and the Album" | short story | A Fantasy Reader | Uncollected | Incorporated into It |
| "The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Collected revised | |
| "The Reach" | short story | Yankee | Skeleton Crew | Originally titled "Do the Dead Sing?" World Fantasy Award nominee, 1982 |
1982
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Survivor Type" | short story | Terrors | Skeleton Crew | |
| "Before the Play" | short story | Whispers | Uncollected | Unused prologue to The Shining |
| "Apt Pupil" | novella | Different Seasons | Different Seasons | British Fantasy Award nominee, 1983 |
| "The Body" | novella | Different Seasons | Different Seasons | |
| "The Breathing Method" | novella | Different Seasons | Different Seasons | British Fantasy Award winner, 1983 World Fantasy and Locus nominee, 1983 |
| "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" | novella | Different Seasons | Different Seasons | |
| "The Raft" | short story | Gallery | Skeleton Crew | Locus Award nominee, 1983 |
| "Skybar" | short story | The Do-It-Yourself Bestseller | Uncollected | Partial short story |
1983
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Word Processor of the Gods" | short story | Playboy | Skeleton Crew | Originally titled "The Word Processor"; collected heavily revised |
| "Uncle Otto's Truck" | short story | Yankee | Skeleton Crew | |
| "The Return of Timmy Baterman" | short story | Satyricon II | Uncollected | Incorporated into Pet Sematary |
1984
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Gramma" | short story | Weirdbook | Skeleton Crew | |
| "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" | short story | Redbook | Skeleton Crew | |
| "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Skeleton Crew | World Fantasy and Locus Award nominee, 1985 |
| "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" | short story | Rolling Stone | Uncollected | Collected in the limited edition of Skeleton Crew ; incorporated into The Tommyknockers |
| "Beachworld" | short story | Weird Tales | Skeleton Crew |
1985
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Dolan's Cadillac" | novella | Castle Rock | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "For Owen" | poem | Skeleton Crew | Skeleton Crew | |
| "Morning Deliveries " | short story | Skeleton Crew | Skeleton Crew | |
| "" | poem | Skeleton Crew | Skeleton Crew |
1986
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "For the Birds" | short story | Bred Any Good Rooks Lately? | Uncollected | |
| "The End of the Whole Mess" | short story | Omni | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | World Fantasy Award nominee, 1987 |
1987
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Popsy" | short story | Masques II | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "The Doctor's Case" | short story | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Nightmares & Dreamscapes |
1988
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Night Flier" | short story | Prime Evil | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Bram Stoker Award nominee, 1989 |
| "Dedication" | short story | Night Visions 5 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "The Reploids" | short story | Night Visions 5 | Uncollected | |
| "Sneakers" | short story | Night Visions 5 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes |
1989
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Rainy Season" | short story | Midnight Graffiti | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "Home Delivery" | short story | Book of the Dead | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "My Pretty Pony" | short story | My Pretty Pony | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Collected revised |
1990s
1990
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "An Evening at God's" | play | Institute for Advanced Theater Training | Uncollected | |
| "The Langoliers" | novella | Four Past Midnight | Four Past Midnight | Bram Stoker Award nominee, 1991 |
| "The Library Policeman" | novella | Four Past Midnight | Four Past Midnight | |
| "Secret Window, Secret Garden" | novella | Four Past Midnight | Four Past Midnight | |
| "The Sun Dog" | novella | Four Past Midnight | Four Past Midnight | |
| "The Bear" | short story | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Uncollected | Incorporated into |
| "The Moving Finger" | short story | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Nightmares & Dreamscapes |
1992
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" | short story | Shock Rock | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Collected heavily revised |
| "Chattery Teeth" | short story | Cemetery Dance | Nightmares & Dreamscapes |
1993
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Beggar and the Diamond" | short story | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "The House on Maple Street" | short story | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "Sorry, Right Number" | teleplay | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Written in 1987 |
| "The Ten O'Clock People" | short story | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Locus Award nominee, 1994 |
| "Umney's Last Case" | short story | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | |
| "Jhonathan and the Witches" | short story | First Words | Uncollected | Written in 1956 |
1994
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Killer" | short story | Famous Monsters of Filmland #202 | Uncollected | Written in the mid-1960s |
| "Blind Willie" | short story | Antaeus #75/76 | Hearts in Atlantis | Collected heavily revised |
| "The Man in the Black Suit" | short story | The New Yorker | Everything's Eventual | World Fantasy Award winner, 1995 |
| "Dino" | poem | Salt Hill Journal | Uncollected |
1995
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Luckey Quarter" | short story | USA Weekend | Everything's Eventual | |
| "Lunch at the Gotham Café" | short story | Dark Love | Everything's Eventual | Bram Stoker Award winner, 1996 Locus Award nominee, 1996 |
1997
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Autopsy Room Four" | short story | Six Stories | Everything's Eventual | Bram Stoker Award nominee, 1999 |
| "L. T.'s Theory of Pets" | short story | Six Stories | Everything's Eventual | |
| "General" | screenplay | Screamplays | Uncollected | Written around 1985 for the film Cat's Eye |
| "Everything's Eventual" | novella | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Everything's Eventual | Bram Stoker and Locus Award nominee, 1998 |
1998
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" | short story | The New Yorker | Everything's Eventual | |
| "The Little Sisters of Eluria" | novella | Legends | Everything's Eventual |
1999
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The New Lieutenant's Rap" | short story | The New Lieutenant's Rap | Uncollected | Incorporated into "Why We're in Vietnam" |
| "The Road Virus Heads North" | short story | 999 | Everything's Eventual | |
| "Hearts in Atlantis" | novella | Hearts in Atlantis | Hearts in Atlantis | |
| "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" | short story | Hearts in Atlantis | Hearts in Atlantis | |
| "Low Men in Yellow Coats" | novella | Hearts in Atlantis | Hearts in Atlantis | Bram Stoker Award nominee, 2000 |
| "Why We're in Vietnam" | novella | Hearts in Atlantis | Hearts in Atlantis | |
| "1408" | short story | Blood and Smoke | Everything's Eventual | Originally published as an audiobook |
| "In the Deathroom" | short story | Blood and Smoke | Everything's Eventual | Originally published as an audiobook |
2000s
2000
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Riding the Bullet" | novella | Riding the Bullet | Everything's Eventual | Originally published as an ebook Bram Stoker Award nominee, 2001 |
| "The Old Dude's Ticker" | short story | NECON XX | Uncollected | Written in the early 1970s |
2001
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" | short story | The New Yorker | Everything's Eventual | |
| "Calla Bryn Sturgis" | short story | stephenking.com | Uncollected | Incorporated into |
| "The Death of Jack Hamilton" | short story | The New Yorker | Everything's Eventual |
2003
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Tale of Gray Dick" | short story | McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales | Uncollected | Incorporated into |
| "Harvey's Dream" | short story | The New Yorker | Just After Sunset | Bram Stoker Award nominee, 2004 |
| "Stationary Bike" | short story | Borderlands 5 | Just After Sunset | |
| "Rest Stop" | short story | Esquire | Just After Sunset |
2004
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Lisey and the Madman" | short story | McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories | Uncollected | Incorporated into Lisey's Story Bram Stoker Award nominee, 2005 |
2005
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Furnace" | short story | Weekly Reader | Uncollected | Partial short story |
| "The Things They Left Behind" | short story | Transgressions | Just After Sunset | Bram Stoker Award nominee, 2006 |
2006
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Memory" | short story | Tin House #28 | Blaze | Incorporated into Duma Key |
| "Willa" | short story | Playboy | Just After Sunset |
2007
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Graduation Afternoon" | short story | Postscripts | Just After Sunset | Locus Award nominee, 2008 |
| "The Gingerbread Girl" | novella | Esquire | Just After Sunset | |
| "Ayana" | short story | The Paris Review | Just After Sunset | |
| "Mute" | short story | Playboy | Just After Sunset |
2008
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "A Very Tight Place" | novella | McSweeney's #27 | Just After Sunset | |
| "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" | short story | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | Just After Sunset | |
| "N." | novella | Just After Sunset | Just After Sunset | British Fantasy Award nominee, 2009 |
2009
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Throttle" | novella | He Is Legend | Uncollected | In collaboration with Joe Hill, part of Hill's collection Full Throttle |
| "Ur" | novella | Ur | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Originally published as an ebook; collected heavily revised |
| "Morality" | novella | Esquire | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Previously included with the trade edition of Blockade Billy |
| "Mostly Old Men" | poem | Tin House #40 | Uncollected | |
| "The Bone Church" | poem | Playboy | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "Premium Harmony" | short story | The New Yorker | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
2010s
2010
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Tommy" | poem | Playboy | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "Blockade Billy" | novella | Blockade Billy | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "1922" | novella | Full Dark, No Stars | Full Dark, No Stars | British Fantasy Award nominee, 2011 |
| "Big Driver" | novella | Full Dark, No Stars | Full Dark, No Stars | |
| "Fair Extension" | novella | Full Dark, No Stars | Full Dark, No Stars | |
| "A Good Marriage" | novella | Full Dark, No Stars | Full Dark, No Stars |
2011
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive" | short story | The Atlantic | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "Under the Weather" | short story | Paperback edition of Full Dark, No Stars | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "Mile 81" | novella | Mile 81 | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Originally published as an ebook |
| "The Little Green God of Agony" | short story | A Book of Horrors | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Adapted into a webcomic |
| "The Dune" | short story | Granta #117 | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
2012
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "In the Tall Grass" | novella | Esquire | Uncollected | In collaboration with Joe Hill, part of Hill's collection Full Throttle |
| "A Face in the Crowd" | novella | A Face in the Crowd | Uncollected | Originally published as an ebook; in collaboration with Stewart O'Nan |
| "Batman and Robin Have an Altercation" | short story | Harper's Magazine | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
2013
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Afterlife" | short story | Tin House #56 | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "The Rock and Roll Dead Zone" | short story | Hard Listening | Uncollected | Originally published as an ebook |
| "Summer Thunder" | short story | Turn Down the Lights | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
2014
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Bad Little Kid" | short story | Bad Little Kid | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Originally published as an ebook in French and German languages only |
| "That Bus Is Another World" | short story | Esquire | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
2015
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "A Death" | short story | The New Yorker | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "Drunken Fireworks" | short story | Drunken Fireworks | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Originally published as an audiobook |
| "Mister Yummy" | short story | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | |
| "Obits" | short story | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams | The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
2016
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Cookie Jar" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review | Uncollected | Appears in the paperback edition of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams |
| "The Music Room" | short story | Playboy | Uncollected | Included with audio readings of Gwendy's Button Box |
2017
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Gwendy's Button Box" | novella | Gwendy's Button Box | Uncollected | written with Richard Chizmar |
| "Thin Scenery" | play | Ploughshares | Uncollected |
2018
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Laurie" | short story | stephenking.com | Uncollected | Free download; included in the Elevation audiobook |
| "Elevation" | novella | Elevation | Uncollected | |
| "The Turbulence Expert" | short story | Flight or Fright | Uncollected |
2019
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "Squad D" | short story | Shivers VIII | Uncollected | written in the late 1970s |
2020s
2020
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
| "The Fifth Step" | short story | Harper's Magazine | Uncollected | |
| "If It Bleeds" | novella | If It Bleeds | If It Bleeds | |
| "The Life of Chuck" | novella | If It Bleeds | If It Bleeds | |
| "Mr. Harrigan's Phone" | novella | If It Bleeds | If It Bleeds | |
| "Rat" | novella | If It Bleeds | If It Bleeds |