Lisey's Story
- 608
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- Series 2021
- On screen
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel
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Our view
“Lisey’s Story” is King in an intimate key, a horror novel whose real subjects are a marriage, grief and the imagination. King calls it his favourite among his books, and some readers find far more in it than the supernatural, even if it took them several attempts to get into it. Others find the couple’s private vocabulary of invented words maddening. It suits readers who come to King for feeling as much as for fear.
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About the book
Lisey's Story is a psychological horror romance novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was released on October 24, 2006. It won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2007. An early excerpt from the novel, a short story titled "Lisey and the Madman", was published in McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004), and was nominated for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. King has stated that this is his favorite of the novels he has written.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- SeriesLisey's StoryIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 221 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 24 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.0 | 197 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Lisey's Story?
It has 608 pages — longer than 85% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Horror — with scores between 7.2 and 7.3, closest to this book.
