5 Stephen King novels for Readers who don't like Horror.
I love talking to people about my favourite books (don't we all) but when I mention that my favourite author is Stephen King I quite often get a reply like ... "oh, I don't like horror books". Stephen King has written a lot of books that aren't necessarily horror, in fact in a lot of cases he starts his story with a "what if" scenario and sees where it goes. Rather than specifically writing a horror story he delves into the deepest recesses of the human condition. So, for example, after a real-life incident when his child gets nearly runover on the road by a huge truck he expands on that idea and explores what length a parent would go to save or bring back their child and we got Pet Semetary. The brutal murder of a gay character in IT (book published 15th September 1986) was based on a real live event in Bangor, Maine (King's hometown) when a 23-year-old asthmatic gay man - Charlie Howard - was beaten by three teenage boys in the summer of 19...