10 Stephen King Stories Begging For Sequels

10. The Plant

A bit of a cheat, but it's in tenth spot for a reason.

The Plant has a long, convoluted history as far as King goes. A serial novel, King first "published" it in the 80s, as a chapbook, sending it out at Christmas to friends in lieu of a card. This, by the way, makes it King's first serial attempt, predating The Green Mile by quite a stretch.

However, after just three instalments, published by King's small publishing company, Philtrum Press, the author dropped the series - until 2000. That year, following the success of Riding the Bullet, the King story that doubled as the world's first mass-market e-Book, King opted to go back to The Plant, which was then known as a trunk novel - a work started but never finished. He released it on the honor system, asking readers pay $1 per instalment and stating he'd cease publishing if less than 75% of readers honored the deal.

Eventually, King made half a million dollars from his self-published tale of a vampire-like plant that takes over the offices of a publishing company - and then, after six instalments, he stopped again. Other projects took precedent, but King, who felt that The Plant (eventually subtitled Zenith Rising) was at least complete as a first part, stated he'd be back to it.

Thus far he hasn't been, sadly.