Lesser Known Stephen King
Explore some of the more obscure titles from the prolific author in this trivia game featuring the lesser known works of Stephen King.
15 questions · Published October 3, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which of these Stephen King novels does NOT feature a writer protagonist?
Stephen King frequently inserts himself into his stories by making an author the main character, but "Gerald's Game" (1992) is about a lover's tryst gone wrong.
- Multiple Choice
2. What classic novel taught by Stephen King as a high school English teacher in the early 1970s inspired "'Salem's Lot"?
Stephen King said he got the idea for modern day vampires while teaching Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897) to high schoolers in the early 1970s.
- Multiple Choice
3. What was the first book Stephen King published using his pseudonym, Richard Bachman?
Richard Bachman has had quite a prolific career:
- Rage (1977)
- The Long Walk (1979)
- Roadwork (1981)
- The Running Man (1982)
- Thinner (1984)
- The Bachman Books (1985, collection)
- The Regulators (1996)
- Blaze (2007)
- Multiple Choice
4. What name do the people of Haven, Maine, give to the alien planet in "The Tommyknockers"?
FUN FACT
Altair 4, from Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers" (1987), is a reference to the science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" (1956).
- Multiple Choice
5. Who is the villainous alter-ego of writer Thad Beaumont in Stephen King's "The Dark Half"?
FUN FACT
George Stark, alter ego of Thad Beaumont sprung to life to go on a killing spree, is named in honor of Richard Stark, pseudonym of crime author Donald E. Westlake.
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