Cross-media picks for Stephen King fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share the textures that draw readers and viewers to King's world: small communities where something ancient and wrong has taken root, ordinary people whose family bonds are tested to breaking point, and the creeping sense that the uncanny is just behind the wallpaper. Whether it's a haunted house that rewrites its owner's memories, a blizzard that delivers a supernatural reckoning, or a grieving novelist who can't escape his Maine lakeside past — the thread is dread worn casually, like a familiar coat.
Film
Bestseller
A writer in an isolated small-town house communes with a ghostly presence — creative desperation meets supernatural dread.
Film
The Black Room
A dark family prophecy and murderous twins make for Gothic horror rooted in bloodline and doom.
Film
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Obsessive love curdles into violence, trapping a young man in a suffocating, dangerous domestic world.
Film
Patrick
A comatose patient uses telekinesis to harass and kill, fixating on his private nurse as his own.
Film
Nightbooks
A boy whose scary stories keep him alive faces a witch's twisted bargain — horror through the lens of childhood.
Film
It Chapter Two
Childhood trauma resurfaces decades later when old friends must confront the evil they once barely survived.
Film
Dream House
A New England family home harbours a dark history of murder that refuses to stay buried.
Film
Book of Blood
A house at the crossroads of supernatural highways makes paranormal investigation a genuinely lethal proposition.
Series
It
Childhood outcasts battle a shape-shifting child-killer, then face it again as haunted adults thirty years on.
Series
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Eight short-story adaptations from King's *Nightmares & Dreamscapes* collection — compact, punchy, and unsettling.
Series
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
A hospital of eccentric staff and a ghostly child's voice makes for slow-burn institutional horror.
Series
Bag of Bones
A grieving novelist retreats to a Maine lakeside cabin and finds the past refuses to release its grip.
Series
The Stand
A plague wipes out most of humanity, and survivors split into factions for a final good-versus-evil reckoning.
Series
Master's Sun
A woman who sees ghosts finds unlikely protection — rom-com warmth wrapped around a genuine supernatural premise.
Series
Storm of the Century
A blizzard traps an isolated island community with a mysterious stranger who wants something terrible from them.
Series
Black Books
A foul-tempered, wildly eccentric bookshop owner makes his small kingdom a stage for dark comedy.
Game
The Novelist
A novelist's ambition versus his family's needs: creative obsession examined with quiet, unsettling intimacy.
Game
Dark Fall: The Journal
An overwhelming, invisible ghost presence — strange calls, footsteps, voices — drives this atmospheric horror adventure.
Game
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
A disgraced writer must enter novels to steal artefacts — literary obsession turned into strange, dark adventure.
Game
The Coma: Cutting Class
A student wakes in an empty school and realises something monstrous is hunting him through the halls.
Game
Black Book
A young sorceress who gave her life to dark forces navigates Russian folktales in this haunting card-based RPG.
Game
No I'm not a Human
A scorched apocalypse told through claustrophobic isolation — end-of-world dread at intimate, miniature scale.
Game
Legendary
Opening Pandora's box unleashes mythological monsters into the modern world — ancient evil meets action horror.
Game
The Drifter
A pulp adventure thriller explicitly drawing on King's influence — propulsive, dark, and tonally off-kilter.
Book
Works (Danse Macabre / Salem's Lot / Shining)
Three cornerstone works — including vampire-haunted *Salem's Lot* and the snowbound Overlook — in one collection.
Book
Gray Matter and other stories from Night Shift
A handful of King's *Night Shift* stories gathered in a standalone volume — each one compact and unsettling.
Book
1922
A man's written confession of murdering his wife unravels into guilt and dread — suffocating rural horror.
Book
Vamps
An anthology of vampire fiction featuring King alongside other writers — ideal for creature-horror fans.
Book
Shadows
A curated anthology of dark fiction drawing on mystery and the uncanny — ideal companion reading for King devotees.
Book
Gwendy's button box
A girl in Castle Rock receives a strange button box with terrifying power — signature small-town Maine unease.
Book
Murder for Halloween
Halloween-themed crime and horror stories from a range of writers — short, sharp, and seasonally dark.
Book
The Dark Shore
A new wife receives an anonymous call exposing her husband's deadly secret — Gothic domestic suspense.
Start with films like It Chapter Two and Dream House for haunted-community dread, or the miniseries Storm of the Century and The Stand for epic slow-burn supernatural tension across isolated settings.
Yes — Gwendy's Button Box captures his Castle Rock atmosphere, 1922 delivers claustrophobic rural horror, and the anthology Shadows offers curated dark fiction from writers in the same tradition.
Dark Fall: The Journal pairs an overwhelming invisible ghost presence with genuine atmospheric dread, while The Drifter explicitly draws on King's pulp-thriller sensibility alongside Carpenter and Crichton.