Carrie is the debut horror novel by American author Stephen King, released in 1974. Set in the town of Chamberlain, Maine, the plot revolves around Carrie White, a friendless high school girl from an
First-edition cover
The cover for the 1975 paperback edition of Carrie does not feature the title or the author's name.
The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by
Carrie (novel)
…after a friend suggested writing a story about a female character. Before writing Carrie, King already had five unpublished novels completed, including The Long Walk. The basis of the story was King imagining a scene of a girl menstruating for the first time in the shower similar to the opening scene of Carrie and…