The Long Walk

by Stephen King · first published 1979

The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot follows the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight years before his first published novel, Carrie, was released in 1974. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardcover.

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Genre:

Science Fiction, Horror fiction, Dystopian fiction, Psychological fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.8 / 5 (50 on Open Library)

Year page:

1979