I read a ton of Stephen King as a kid and I think my kid will be into it, but I’m not sure which book would be a good entry point. He has so many different types of story from weird to horror to mind bending. What would you use as a good entry for his horror? For an 11 year old.

Update… Thank you so much everyone! This thread is making me want to reread the books myself too 😄

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I’m going to suggest “The Talisman”, which was co-written with Peter Straub. It’s a coming-of-age story so there should be some overlap of interest there. It’s more of a dark adventure than a horror book, and it ties in with the Dark Tower saga (but only “after the fact”, so you can read Talisman without any of the other context just fine), but I read it at about that age and it helped me get into a lot of other King books, and eventually, much broader fantasy, sci-fi and horror.

    I also seem to remember that it starts somewhat slow, but once you get through that it’s fantastic to the end.