It's unbelievable to hear The Thing was a box office failure. It's easily one of my all-time favorite horror films ever made. Such a classic

Came upon this channel by accident after looking for king audiobooks, and I'm really impressed with your articulate presentation and in-depth knowledge of the books.

@TheHorrorShowChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found us! We do a weekly episode all about King so hope you stick around!

Thank you for explaining the hornet metaphor. I knew he was using it to describe Jack's alcoholism but I never thought of the fact that hornets can sting you over and over, and addiction can do the same thing. Literally cannot believe I missed that somehow.

The Stand and The Long Walk would be S for me.

@MrRadiantMan

4 жыл бұрын

The long walk is 100% S tier for me

@axios525

3 жыл бұрын

Long Walk criminally underrated

@alextsi1949

3 жыл бұрын

@@axios525 The Long Walk is criminally underrated indeed, but it is not S imo.

@leirumf5476

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

I liked the vid instantly when I saw you put "The Dead Zone" in S.

Craziness. Salem's Lot is absolutely S-Tier, and not just because King has gone on record and stated it is his favorite novel. The characterizations and development of the town people is top-notch and only rivaled by The Stand & IT. People read the book synopsis and assume it is about a small town overtaken by evil creatures, but after a short amount of reading, the novel shows Jerusalem's Lot is a town of little evils to begin with. Adultery, greed, murder, alcoholism, baseless judgment, spousal abuse...etc. and all of it seen by the Marston House, watching down over them from the county's highest hill, like some kind of dark idol. Barlow is essentially Dracula, so I will give you that he is not the most creative of King's villains (and why I loved the appearance change from the old TV movie) but he is still very effective and sadistic overall. I also think it gave the most reasonable thinking for how to believe something like vampires or another monster of lore could exist, how we don't believe they could exist because we tell ourselves they simply can't, which doesn't make it true.

@oneeyewitch

4 жыл бұрын

i cant seem to enjoy Salems lot :(

@jarredjacob2244

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! I think he’s on record saying Lisey’s Story is his favorite though

@jarredjacob2244

3 жыл бұрын

The fandom page and the wiki for Lisey’s Story state it is, and he’s said it in interviews on KZread I’ve watched, Salems Lot might’ve been before he wrote that though

@mr.whisper3338

3 жыл бұрын

@@jarredjacob2244 Fandom pages can be altered. The interviews referenced was in the 80's, as well as one in 2015 where he said Salem was his favorite. I'm pretty sure Lisey's story was written in early 2000's. Maybe he jumps around on his favorites like a lot of writers?

@joshua3367

2 жыл бұрын

I think Under the Dome & Needful Things hit the whole town thing better than Salems Lot did... but the horror elements in Salems Lot in unmatched by those others.

This video is really helpful, since my mother has always been a huge Stephen king fan, but her ex husband destroyed her collection out of spite. I never got a chance to read them before that happened. Now that I’m an adult, she’s looked at me and gone “any daughter of mine WILL read at least one! You can’t claim to love horror unless you read at least one!” I asked which one and omg I got a whole list, nearly one third the length of yours but still daunting without knowing which ones are series and which are stand alone

@TheHorrorShowChannel

3 жыл бұрын

If you check more episodes in our Stephen King-Related Episode Playlist, you'll find a couple where Fuego gives you ideas on how to approach it, plus a video on the exact reading order of the Dark Tower series and all of it's tie-ins from King's other works.

@PinkWytchBytch

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHorrorShowChannel I’ll definitely be checking those out, thank you! I’m eager to delve into all the great books I never got the chance to read!

For nostalgic reasons, Silver Bullet is actually my all time favorite movie. From there I was introduced to Stephen King and found Cycle of the Werewolf later on. GREAT episode guys!

I want to read Stephen King's books, you guys will be helping me in my quest. Awesome video for sure!

regarding Pet Sematary, what you said about having a kid is absolutely true. I read it prior to having a child, and again after, and it hits you totally differently. So much worse and horrific when you are a parent and you read it

Great way to rank all the novels. Really interesting to hear your reasoning for each choice.

Can’t wait to watch all of these!!

Pet Sematary was the first book I read of mr. King’s. I now have a nice little collection.

@TheGlamPea27

3 жыл бұрын

It was my first book too! And my real introduction to how he is as a writer. Loved it and am getting into some of his other works but I’m probably going to be biased because Pet Sematary was my first book of his 😂

I saw you on Mike's book review video the other day when y'all where talking about Sai King. I've probably really just became a constant reader in the last of years, but I've always loved watching the old universal and hammer movies. And your channel sounds like it would be interesting to watch.

Me: I hate tier lists. Also Me: Oh, it's Jaime doing one of Stephen King books? *clicks play faster than a Gunslinger*

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Lolol. Gotcha!

Loved this

This is awesome.

I can't wait for more.

The Shining is my all time favorite I love Jack’s descent into madness

@LukeParon

4 жыл бұрын

Felt absolutely terrible for the guy for most of the read :/

@damdaley8092

3 жыл бұрын

I agree but it’s spelled dissent

@seniprime6693

3 жыл бұрын

Sam Haley actually we are both wrong it’s descent.

Stephen king right before he writes roadwork: roadwork ahead uh yeah I sure hope it does.

I've just started reading the stand , but only ever watched the movies. I'm really starting to see the depth of kings wrighting, and appreciate the break down of the books.

Amazing analysis!

great idea for a vid dudes. Always wondered which King novels to try, so apart from the obvious classics, now I know where to go next. cheers boys

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, good call! Didn't even think these eps could work like that for people!

This stream was mega. Absolutely loved it! Just what the fans need in these intensely boring times. Great to see recognition to the running man. Very underrated. Only changes I would make is having Firestarter and Salem's Lot higher and the Gunslinger lower.

Great video fellas! I’m a huge King fan and I always love these Tier lists. I found your comments about Cujo interesting because I thought it was around a C to low B rating BECAUSE I liked the infidelity in the story so much hahaha Just goes to show ya, different strokes for different folks!

Nice list, man! I’m definitely in the minority with you regarding The Shining and Doctor Sleep. I loved DS and just thought TS was decent. Having said that though, that may be different if I hadn’t seen the film first (which I love).

S for me, The Stand, Deadzone, It, Needful Things and 11/22/63

Carrie, Salem’s Lot, the Shining, The Stand and IT would be S for me. Love the vid - you guys are so cool and keep everything interesting which is hard on a vid like this. Rage would be F for me

Cycle of the Werewolf is nearly 16k words and novels start around 40k words so it's really a novella. Damn marketing!

The Long Walk belongs firmly in S tier. The only issues it has are length and that the premise has been poorly duplicated. I look forward to the rest of this series. Long Days and Pleasant Nights.

Recently read: Carrie(A), The Shinning(A), Salem’s Lot(B), Rage(C), The Institute(B), Joyland(C), Salem’s Lot(C), N(D), Elevation(D). Read many years ago(so memory could be wrong): The Stand(A), Christine(A), Cujo(A), Needful Things(A), 11/22/63(A), Tom Gordon(F), The Dead Zone(A), IT(A), Pet Semetary(A), Cell(C).

Fuego have similar taste like me, exepte two big differences - The Long walk and Running man are in may top 3 Kings books, Defently S for me. It`s strange how Fuego didn`t see greatness of those 2 novels. And there are absolutly not compare between The Long Walk and It and The Body. It is not a coming of age book, it`s dystopian last standing bloody game book, hrom witch are inspired a ton of books and movies, one of witch is Hunger games.

I loved Doctor Sleep. It's actually the only King book I have reread so far (but I am still relatively new to King compared to a lot of constant readers). I thought it was so much better than The Shining but I do of course love that one as well

I like Dr. Sleep better than The Shining as well.

The Stand (uncut version) and Pet Cemetery (spell check corrected it) and ‘Salem’s Lot my favorites from the first decade of his writing. I liked Christine and agree it was a much better book than movie (as most books are).

I, too, read Pet Semetary and Cujo as a new parent. Both books rocked my world view as a new parent Highly recommend rereading or reading as a parent. Amazing books with powerful parental themes that just crush on an emotional roller coaster.

@dionst.michael1482

2 жыл бұрын

Held off on his better known classics that were made into movies until I started running out of King material and was pleasantly surprised to find out that they were so much better than the movies than I expected them to be. Cujo was a prime example. Held off forever cause I had saw the movie but the book was SOOOOOOOO much better. Doing so had me going back to read stuff like Carrie, The Shining and Children Of The Corn and the like. They were really worth the read even if you have seen the movies.

As someone who’s barely read any but seen almost all tv n movie adaptations I’m always keen to know what’s fuegos top tier king novels big list to go thru much props for doing this horrors show crew

Caught an error. Main character in Roadwork doesn’t lose his mother, it’s his son.

Good list guys. Agree with most of your ratings except for the Stand. I've finished every single stephen king novel except for that one. I've tried to read it so many times

@jameshamilton6381

4 жыл бұрын

You should finish. Glenn's confrontation with Flagg is one of the best moments King has ever written.

I'm one of the few that actually like Rage.

@JuanMartinez-ib7mz

4 жыл бұрын

I think most CRs like Rage

@Andrew_Thannen

4 жыл бұрын

@Radu Kmn It's no longer in publication, so because of its reputation it's hard to find a copy without paying hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. Best way to go is track down the first Bachman Books collection. Usually you can find it for around $20-30 or so for the hardback.

@CKsoundwave

3 жыл бұрын

@Radu Kmn the audiobook is on youtube my dude

@squidward.loveswrongpeople

3 жыл бұрын

@@Andrew_Thannen is the full version of Rage in the Bachman books?

@aspetty

3 жыл бұрын

Same though I do like arguments towards it. I read it in high school from my late aunt's old paperbacks and it was something that spoke to me, but I get King's reasons for taking it out of print and how someone who's warped could take a dark inspirations to it.

Neat

For what I've read: S: Misery, Duma Key, Revival A: Pet Sematary, The Long Walk, The Gunslinger B: The Talisman, The Shining, Gerald's Game, Sleeping Beauties C: The Running Man, Cujo, Doctor Sleep, The Drawing Of The Three, Night Shift D: The Dark Half, Thinner F:

*wakes up* *sees King Tier List* *clicks so fast*

RAGE is one my my favorites

I have not read all of these books discussed here, but I would agree with a lot of the placements. Maybe a couple one level off from my ranking but close. The only one I would significantly change is Cujo. I really enjoyed that book and would put it much higher.

Love this series. Agree wholeheartedly about The Stand. Disagree just as loudly about Cujo and Christine. These early books are what snagged me as a fan. Not a fan of the Bachman books.

Do you think the Long Walk takes place at an earlier time in the Running Man universe?

OMG THE SHINING ISNT AN S?! DO YOU EVEN KING?! *TRIGGERED* GAAAAHHH!!! *JUMPS OUT A WINDOW AND WACKS MY HEAD WITH A HAMMER*

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Man oh man, the amount of times I wish some commenters HAD done this, tho...?

Here’s my ranking of what I’ve read so far Carrie S Salem’s lot S The shining S Rage F The stand S The dead zone C The long walk C Fire starter B Roadwork B Cujo A The running man B The gunslinger C Pet Sematary A

@No1emilybrowningfan

3 жыл бұрын

@Jostin Aleman sorry I missed misery out. My bad haha. Yes, it’s S tier

Given Rage was so controversial and a Bachman book, I expected extreme brutality, but it was pretty tame compared to my expectations, and therefore I was bored reading it. Great expectations definitely have a negative impact on my ability to enjoy a book. I read Revival, Duma Key and Joyland back to back without any expectations or knowledge of what they were about, and loved all three.

*it* is the best book ive ever read, im still thinking on derry and the loser's even though ive finished it a while ago

The Shining is for sure S tier for me.

I made it 8 minutes. You’re not ranking The Shining as a S? Holy hell it’s probably his second best book. I’m going to flip my shit if The Stand isn’t a S. But yeah I’ll be watching the rest lol.

I have a topic idea, Stephen King works in other movies. Like The Shining in Twister, or in the movie Pagemaster where you see a couple SK books on the bookshelf in the cartoon part of the movie. Or in Casper, Kat mentions Stephen King

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

That would really be more of an easter egg type of video.

Carrie is better than The Shinning?... Yikes !!! Dead Zone S? more like A maybe even B...

Reading it at the moment my first king book I'm going to read full I was reading pet sematary but I forgot about it every tells me beware of Patrick hocksteeter chapters I seen all the movies Patrick was not really much seen in the movies what does he do in the book pls tell

i havent seen the shining movie but i stilll rate it S- Tier

S Tier is the same as cranking it up to 11

I’ve only read maybe 8-12 king books but Salem’s lot is my fave it was also the first King book I read so maybe that’s why

@0404chrisjz

4 жыл бұрын

Actually took a break from a long walk to watch this

@0404chrisjz

4 жыл бұрын

Hated dead zone but don’t really remember it all that well, maybe a I need a re read

@0404chrisjz

4 жыл бұрын

Hated is a strong word

Do a film tier list!

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Already have all the movie covers pulled!

@JuanMartinez-ib7mz

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHorrorShowChannel stoked to see it

I've heard many people say that Roadwork is just OK on first read but they love it on the second read.

I’ve just started reading kings book and so far I’ve read The Mist and on page 900 in IT. So far loved both. What should I read next?

@Calz-hi3cn

4 жыл бұрын

10/10 the shining!

@MrRadiantMan

4 жыл бұрын

The long walk

@axios525

3 жыл бұрын

As a starter Pet Sematary

I do agree Dr Sleep book is better, but personally I think The Shining is an A and Dr Sleep is an S. But Dr Sleep touched my heart in the middle of one of my deep depressions too. Also prefer From a Buick 8 to Christine.

Finally someone else who doesn’t care for Cujo. That book is so overrated, and did not care about the husband or wife or his business trip slide plot in the slightest

There's just nothing special about 'Salem's Lot. If the villain wasn't a vampire, it would get no attention whatsoever.

28:57 Fuego gonna be a daddy?

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Nope

I like Doctor Sleep WAY more than The Shining.

What's does S tier mean?

@What_Fred_Said

7 ай бұрын

The best

Walter White in the chair everyone

Who's having a baby???

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

What's that now?

@markpearson9269

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHorrorShowChannel you were saying how pet sematary has different meanings for them that read it before becoming a parent, and after. And then said "you will have to revisit next year" I could be wrong though. Hope I'm not

So people really think King's books are scary? I like most of his early books, but scary they are not.

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Not to you maybe. Doesn't mean they aren't scary.

@MisterTutor2010

Жыл бұрын

It's like Friday the 13th Part 1, it's pretty tame by today's standards - Bart Simpson :)

E comes after d in the alphabet, not F

@TheHorrorShowChannel

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding. And let me guess…S doesn’t come before A either, right? Guess youve never seen a Tier List before, huh?

i did not care for the dead zone whatsoever. i appreciate what it did and what it was about but man i did not enjoy it. just wasnt for me

IMO… ranking Carrie so high and Rage so low is just plain hypocritical. They’re basically the same thing, except one has supernatural aspects. Whether it be shooting up a school or torturing and burning it down with your mind… it’s the same. Just because one is more realistically conceivable than the other should NOT grant it a higher rating. They are about attacking students and teachers in a school setting, you should rate them both equally. I love YOU Fuego

Lmfao shinning is B This guy is a joke

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Cause YOUR opinion is the right one, huh? Piss off.

@Calz-hi3cn

4 жыл бұрын

The Horror Show “let us know what your ranking was in the comments below” but also I agree the shining is 10/10 s or atleast a

@TheHorrorShowChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@Calz-hi3cn yes I said give us your ranking, not rag on the host. What's confusing?

His politics- Tier F -

@TheHorrorShowChannel

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it was a passing comment and yet you latched onto it. Not sure it's Fuego who has the issue.

@tchaikca

4 жыл бұрын

Turning any conversation into something political- whatever is lower than F on the chart

@danielcorey2156

4 жыл бұрын

He didn’t turn anything political ... all he did was say Stilson’s campaigning style was similar to Trump.