All lists I can find, like this
StephenKing.com - Comprehensive List - Oldest to Newest
are in order of publication date. But is there a list of the order in which he actually wrote them? For example, Pet Sematary was written much earlier, before The Dead Zone, but he put it in a drawer because he felt it was too dark and only published it much later.
To properly see how he evolved you'd have to see the order in which the books and stories were actually written. This could only be possible of course if he dated his stories or had some sort of system of the order in which he wrote them. (I have to say I doubt he had such a system, as he can't seem to recall even writing Cujo).
But would it be possible to determine what the actual writing order of his books was?
Actually with most writers it seems it's easier to find a list of the order in which books/stories were published than how they were written. The only one who can really know is the writer himself and unless you actually date something, it can really become hard to tell.
StephenKing.com - Comprehensive List - Oldest to Newest
are in order of publication date. But is there a list of the order in which he actually wrote them? For example, Pet Sematary was written much earlier, before The Dead Zone, but he put it in a drawer because he felt it was too dark and only published it much later.
To properly see how he evolved you'd have to see the order in which the books and stories were actually written. This could only be possible of course if he dated his stories or had some sort of system of the order in which he wrote them. (I have to say I doubt he had such a system, as he can't seem to recall even writing Cujo).
But would it be possible to determine what the actual writing order of his books was?
Actually with most writers it seems it's easier to find a list of the order in which books/stories were published than how they were written. The only one who can really know is the writer himself and unless you actually date something, it can really become hard to tell.