Book of the Day · Tuesday, October 13
Carrie
by Stephen King · Horror
Why today: With a new Carrie adaptation in the headlines, Stephen King's 1974 debut novel about a bullied teenager with telekinetic powers is worth reading first.
A tight, grim debut that treats a bullied teenager's telekinetic powers as the start of a story about cruelty, conformity and a home ruled by fear, not just a monster movie.
Read this if you…
- want a horror novel where the monster is partly the social world around the outcast
- like early Stephen King with a tight, fast plot and a grim but humane heart
- are interested in how fiction uses documents, clippings and testimony to build suspense
