Think you're a Stephen King fan? Test your knowledge by guessing his novels based on their opening lines. Can you get all 10 correct?
1. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'?
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
The Eyes of the Dragon
Thinner
The Tommyknockers
2. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened . . . although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life.'?
Misery
Pet Sematary
The Stand
The Shining
3. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons.'?
Carrie
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Eyes of the Dragon
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4. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966:'?
'Salem's Lot
Carrie
Cujo
The Gunslinger
5. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'The morning I got it on was nice; a nice May morning.'?
Misery
Gerald's Game
Rage
The Running Man
6. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953.'?
The Gunslinger
The Long Walk
Dolores Claiborne
The Dead Zone
7. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window.'?
The Running Man
Thinner
Firestarter
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
8. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'Curt Wilcox’s boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again.'?
From A Buick 8
Dreamcatcher
Cujo
Bag of Bones
9. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: '“ASK ME A RIDDLE,” Blaine invited.'?
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Green Mile
The Tommyknockers
Revival
10. Which Stephen King novel begins with the line: 'THIS HAPPENED in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain.'?
