Richard Bachman Books In Order

Novels

  1. Rage (1977)
  2. The Long Walk (1979)
  3. Roadwork (1981)
  4. The Running Man (1982)
  5. Thinner (1984)
  6. The Regulators (1996)
  7. Blaze (2007)

Omnibus

  1. The Bachman Books (1985)
  2. Desperation / Regulators (1996)

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Richard Bachman Books Overview

The Long Walk

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as ‘The Long Walk‘. If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.

Roadwork

Unabridged CDs, 7 CDs, 9 hoursWhen a highway project puts Barton Dawes out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his obstinate refusal to give in, he pushes the powers that be to the limit, take a stand against what he sees as a criminal act in progress.

The Running Man

Set in the year 2025, The Running Man is a frightening tale of a sick society, fascinated by bloodthirsty game shows where desperate individuals wager their lives for a shot at fabulous riches. From The Bachman Books by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in the film version due to open mid July. Includes 8 pages of photos from the movie. Movie/Tie in

Thinner

When an old Gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he’s 93 pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble…
that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.

The Regulators

There’s a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It’s called Poplar Street. Up until now it’s been a nice place to live. The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that. Let the battle against evil begin. Here come ‘The Regulators‘. ‘Call him Bachman or call him King…
. He hits hard with a white knuckler knockout. A devilishly entertaining yarn of occult mayhem and mordant social commentary…
a paragon of action horror’. ‘Publishers Weekly’.

Blaze

The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time. Stephen King’s ‘dark half’ may have saved the best for last. A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ‘cancer of the pseudonym’, but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library ‘How did this get here?!’, and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published. Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own. He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character as taut and riveting as Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

The Bachman Books

Four of Richard Bachman’s eerie works are gathered here in a posthumous edition. They are Rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an ‘estra’ ordinary high school student; ‘The Long Walk,’ a contest with death; ‘Roadwork, a strange variation on the theme of ‘Home Sweet Home’; and ‘The Running Man,’ where you bet your life literally.

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