Spelling It Out With Stephen King Quiz

Answer: Captain Trips

In the novel, the flu is also referred to simply as the 'Superflu' and it has the ability to wipe out 99.4% of the world's population, leaving small pockets of survivors to search for one another and rebuild society. Though the first portion of the novel deals with the spread and fallout of the disease, the bulk of the book follows the survivors and the subsequent battle of good versus evil that emerges when a mysterious man in black, Randall Flagg, starts to reign in the Western United States. Flagg is none other than the 'Man in Black' from the "Dark Tower" series, but we don't know that yet.

Answer: Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling

More dramatic than a lot of King's earlier works, "Hearts in Atlantis" was later adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins. All five stories in this book followed protagonists that had a connection to the Vietnam War with the final of the five, "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" being the last of the set.

The story followed Bobby Garfield, also seen in the book's first tale, "Low Men in Yellow Coats"; he was played by Anton Yelchin in the movie.

Answer: Revival

"Revival" featured numerous motifs-- faith healing, rock and roll music, life and death, electricity-- and it all boiled down to a story about a man named Jamie Morton whose life was entangled with that of a young minister from his youth, Charlie Jacobs, who kept reappearing in his life, helping him break his addiction, but also working on magical projects behind the scenes. Jacobs eventually became a faith healer, but upon investigation, it appeared that his efforts to heal his patrons resulted in something much more frightening from the other side.

Answer: Insomnia

Ed Deepneau appeared in the 1994 novel "Insomnia". As his horrible insomnia worsened to the point where he was only able to get an hour of sleep every night, he started to see figures (who he named after the musketeers) taking the life-force from people in his town.

This book has a strong tie-in to the last novel in "The Dark Tower", particularly because the 'bald doctors' in the book act in the stead of the Crimson King.

Answer: Susannah

"The Dark Tower" does contain its fair share of tragic moments, but one of the brighter ends is given to Susannah Dean, the final surviving member of Roland's ka-tet, who departs when she realizes that Roland must end his journey alone. She walks through a door to live out the rest of her life in an alternate New York City alongside living versions of Eddie and Jake. Susannah was, of course, introduced in the second novel of the series, "The Drawing of the Three"-- she was the second to be drawn from her door on the beach.

Answer: Thinner

"Thinner" was the fifth Bachman Book, showing up in stores in 1984, seven years after King introduced the Bachman name. It was preceded by "Rage", "The Long Walk", "Roadwork", and "The Running Man". "Thinner", one of King's shorter works, featured a protagonist who, overweight and selfish, managed to receive a gypsy curse rendering him unable to stop shedding pounds to the point where it could eventually lead to a horrible death.

It received a film adaptation in 1996.

Answer: It

"It" followed a group of seven kids in Derry, Maine as they went toe-to-toe against a horrible evil force that changed its form to embody their worst fears. Most often personified as Pennywise the Clown (especially in adaptations), the creature simply known as 'It' was an otherworldly force from the beyond, reemerging every twenty-seven years to feed. Only 'The Loser's Club' knows its true secrets and powers, and they need to find a way to stop it for good.

Answer: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

This ended up being King's third short story collection (the first two being "Night Shift" and "Skeleton Crew") and it released in 1993, taking in twenty-four King stories, five of which were never published before in other publications. Notably, five of the short stories from this set were adapted for the TNT miniseries "Nightmare & Dreamscapes" (three other episodes came from "Everything's Eventual", released in 2002.

Answer: Ellen Carver

Many of the characters in Stephen King's "Desperation" take on new forms and roles in his Bachman book "The Regulators", both of which were released at the same time in 1996. Ellen Carver plays a mother in the former and a daughter in the latter, only surviving in "The Regulators" and assumed to be taken care of by a new family following the events therein.

In "Desperation", she becomes a host body for Tak (following Collie and others). Interestingly, her daughter in "Desperation" (Pie) becomes her mother in "The Regulators"; she dies in both.

Answer: Christine

Although it was King's thirteenth novel, technically, it was preceded by four books published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, all of which allowed King to double his output of published works for a time. "Christine", of course, is about the sentient 1958 Plymouth Fury.

The book was made into a film directed by John Carpenter and it was one of many novels that highlighted King's passion for old cars ("From a Buick 8" would be another). Also released in 1983-- "Pet Sematary" and "Cycle of the Werewolf".