#early king

[stephenkingtournament]

'Salem's Lot (1975) vs The Regulators (1996)

"I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling."

“When there’s no more room in hell, this artifact said, the dead will walk the earth.”

Pick your favorite book!

'Salem's Lot (1975)

The Regulators (1996

Voting ended onJul 19, 2025

[stephenkingtournament]

The Long Walk (1979) vs. The Green Mile (1996)

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”

Pick your favorite book!

The Long Walk (1979)

The Green Mile (1996)

I have not read either

Voting ended onJul 19, 2025

[stephenkingtournament]

Firestarter (1980) vs. Gerald's Game (1992)

“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.”

“If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.”

Pick your favorite book!

Firestarter (1980)

Gerald's Game (1992)

I haven't read either

Voting ended onJul 19, 2025

[stephenkingtournament]

The Dead Zone (1979) vs. Dolores Claiborne (1992)

“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”

“When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.”

Pick your favorite book!

The Dead Zone (1979)

Dolores Claiborne (1992)

I haven't read either

Voting ended onJul 19, 2025

[stephenkingtournament]

The Running Man (1982) vs. Rose Madder (1995)

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”

Pick your favorite book!

The Running Man (1982)

Rose Madder (1995)

I haven't read either

Voting ended onJul 19, 2025

[stephenkingtournament]

I swear I will eventually get to the second half of round 1 but I have so much going on rn so be patient