10 Unfinished Stephen King Novels (That He Should Definitely Finish)

10. Sword In The Darkness

Perhaps the most complete of the unpublished works of Stephen King, Sword in the Darkness was actually submitted to twelve different publishing companies early in King's career, and rejected by all twelve. The plot reportedly surrounds an attempt by a gang of robbers to incite a riot so that they can commit a series of burglaries during the ensuing chaos. The protagonist is coping with the death of his mother and suicide of his pregnant sister; a secondary character turns out to be a black activist lawyer, who actually winds up inciting the riot after speaking at a local high school.

Keeping in mind the time in which it was written, it seems pretty interesting, however after the rejections, King considered it unpublishable, and determined it would never see the light of day. 

There is a copy, however, at the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine. However, any would-be reader requires King's personal permission to read the novel, which weighs in at 485 pages. Good luck.

Eventually an excerpt of the book was published in Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished, by Rocky Wood in 2006. That gave fans hope that eventually, like Blaze (Sword in the Darkness really feels like a Bachman novel), it would see the light of day. However, nothing more has been heard of the novel up to this point.