Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.
 
Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.Praise for Stephen King andCarrie

A master storyteller. --The Los Angeles Times

Guaranteed to chill you. --The New York Times
 
Gory and horrifying.... You can't put it down. --Chicago Tribune
 
“[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.” —USA Today
 
“Eerie and haunting—sheer terror!” —Publishers Weekly
 
“Shivering, shuddery, macabre evil!” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
“Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.” —The Boston Globe
 
“Peerless imagination.” —The Observer(London)Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Doctor Sleep; Joyland; 11/22/63; Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; End of Watch; and the latest novel in the Dark Tower saga: The Wind Through the Keyhole. His acclaimed nonfiction bookOn Writingis also a bestseller. Stephen is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Dl#-