Stephen King has written some of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, the best-known of which, perhaps, are The Shining, The Stand and his beloved Dark Tower series, which serves as a kind of sprawling magnus opus that links everything and anything the man has ever put to paper to create his ultimate masterpiece (seriously: read it). Stephen King has also written a good number of somewhat questionable books over the course of his long and prolific writing career - books that failed to capture what is great about King as a writer, or his imagination. Everybody experiences failure now and again, of course - that's all part and parcel of being a best-selling novelist. Not everything you produce is going to be met with critical acclaim. Things rarely work out as such. That said, there are a fair amount of Stephen King novels out there that, for one reason or another, weren't met with the levels of acclaim that they probably deserved to be at the time of their release; under-appreciated or undervalued works that, in retrospect, are yet to receive their proper dues... despite the fact there's actually a lot to love about them. Derided by the critics, general audiences or King fans alike, here are 10 totally underrated Stephen King novels that deserve either your attention or a major reevaluation...
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
