#154 in Horror
Firestarter
- 428
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Film 1984 +1
- On screen
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About the book
Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. It tells the story of a young girl, Charlie McGee, with the ability of pyrokinesis, whose destructive force a ruthless government agency tries to harness for their own purposes. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. The novel entered the New York Times' Best-Sellers List on August 24, 1980. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award. In 1984, it was adapted into a film. A miniseries follow-up to the film, Firestarter: Rekindled, was released in 2002 on the Sci-Fi Channel and a remake from Blumhouse Productions was released on 13 May 2022. The book is dedicated to author Shirley Jackson: "In Memory of Shirley Jackson, who never needed to raise her voice."
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 2 times — from 1984 to 2022.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 529 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 78% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 27 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 502 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Firestarter?
It has 428 pages — longer than 60% of the ranked books in Horror.
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