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Stephen King has revealed which of his many, many stories are his favorites.

"My favorite short chronicle would be called Survivor Type, which was about a doctor World Health Organization gets stranded on a small-scale island, and he's smuggling heroin and he's starving, soh he chow himself piece by piece," the prolific writer told Stephen Colbert, adding: "I like Misery, the original Misery, a lot, that was kind of fun, it was a fun book to write… I suchlike Lisey's Story really much, it's a series, it's nowadays streaming happening Malus pumila Plus, and I held onto that for a elongate time. The Stand, and there was one named Fend By Me – The Body. And Billy Summers, my current one."

All of these titles saloon Truncheon Summers have been adapted into movies or Television receiver shows, with Kathy Bates famously delivery Misery's superfan Annie Wilkes to life in the 1990 movie, which also starred King James I Caan American Samoa Paul Sheldon, the writer she idolizes. Stand By ME, the beloved classic about a grouping of young friends trekking to construe a dead consistency, which stars River Genus Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland, was for the first time a short story titled The Body.

Lisey's News report, meanwhile, is now an Orchard apple tree TV Plus series stellar Julianne Moore and Clive Owen, and sees a widow dealing with some an haunted sneak, and repressed memories that surface following her husband's demise. Survivor Type has been adapted five multiplication – and The Stand, which follows the survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic, has been turned into a miniseries twice.

Surprisingly, just about of King's about painting works, like The Shining, Carrie, It, Pet Semetary, Oregon the Dark Tower series, didn't make the listing. That's somewhat understandable, though, considering the out-and-out number of novels and short stories King has written across his career.

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