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Mallory Bye
If you are looking for something that has that same claustrophobic, inner dialogue feel I would recommend The Long Walk. No supernatural elements.
connor
The Green Mile would be a good choice
Sharon
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Paola Regine
Cujo- Is the perspective of a mother grieving for what happens to her son, similar to pet Sematary where the father is one of the protagonists and is mourning what happened to his son. The pets are not important is more what happens to the individuals that changed their lives.
Robert M. Lucas
You've requested non-supernatural SK, but many of the recommendations here are known for being supernatural...
You've read Dolores Claibourne, so...
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (filmed as Shawshank Redemption)
The Body (filmed as Stand By Me)
Others are Rage (written under his 'Richard Bachman' pseudonym),
The Running Man (also by 'Richard Bachman') - dystopian sci-fi, loosely adapted into the Schwarzenegger film.
You've read Dolores Claibourne, so...
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (filmed as Shawshank Redemption)
The Body (filmed as Stand By Me)
Others are Rage (written under his 'Richard Bachman' pseudonym),
The Running Man (also by 'Richard Bachman') - dystopian sci-fi, loosely adapted into the Schwarzenegger film.
august
The Body by Stephen King, which was made into a movie called Stand By Me.
Doug
Actually all the novellas in Different Seasons would work except for maybe The Breathing Method.
Savannah
11/22/63! Surprised no one has said that yet
Yoana
Gerald's Game. Unaccountably underappreciated! It's pure psychological horror, and very well done, too.
A.J. Harnak
11/22/63 and the Green Mile are two of his best non-horror books. Neither have overtly supernatural plotlines, just small bits of "magic" here or there.
Chloe
Pet Cemetery Is a amazing book
Chris
dream catcher was my first sk book. you should read it
Mejis
Joyland and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, both short stories without anything supernatural in it.
Bryce
The Stand was a FANTASTIC novel of SK, IT gave me adult nightmares stopped reading at night because of it.
Derrick Good
Mr Mercedes, then Finders Keepers and end with End of Watch.
Kelly
It, although there is some supernatural, is my favorite King novel, and I do not like supernatural at all. Give it a try. You'll be horrified.
Barbara
Cujo, Billy Summers, Finders Keepers, and The Green Mile.
Bernadette Capone
Pet Sematary o Christine.
Shelby
The Institute by SK is not very similar to Misery, but there are kidnappers, captors, and torture in it. There is not any supernatural elements.
The Angry Lawn Gnome
Gerald's Game and Cujo have no supernatural elements in them, though I'm honestly not a huge fan of Gerald's Game. Thought it was just okay.
Writing as Richard Bachman, none of the early Bachman books (The Running Man, The Long Walk, Rage and Road Work) do, though Thinner did.
Technically Firestarter, Under the Dome and The Tommyknockers have nothing supernatural about them, but they're science fiction where the science might as well be fantasy, in an Arthur C. Clarke sense.
Writing as Richard Bachman, none of the early Bachman books (The Running Man, The Long Walk, Rage and Road Work) do, though Thinner did.
Technically Firestarter, Under the Dome and The Tommyknockers have nothing supernatural about them, but they're science fiction where the science might as well be fantasy, in an Arthur C. Clarke sense.
Dan Valente
My recommendation would to read The TommyKnockers, or The Dark Half. Both amazing books with great plots. I couldn’t put the books down.
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