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Firestarter by Stephen King

Firestarter

A Novel

Stephen King, Dennis Boutsikaris, Simon & Schuster Audio

Scribner · Print & ebook · August 5, 2025

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time)—now featuring a stunning vintage cover!

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Who it’s for
A suspenseful, genre-crossing read with that King mix of dread, propulsion, and controlled weirdness.
Genres
Supernatural Thrillers, Horror, Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
Published
Scribner, August 5, 2025

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About this book

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time)—now featuring a stunning vintage cover! Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as the Shop.

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But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of the Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

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A suspenseful, genre-crossing read with that King mix of dread, propulsion, and controlled weirdness.

Come here for

  • classic Stephen King momentum
  • supernatural menace with sci-fi edges

Expect

  • layered tension
  • sustained, immersive pacing

Where it sits

Supernatural Thrillers69%
Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi45%
Horror40%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Horror
  • Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
  • Suspense
Authors
Stephen King, Dennis Boutsikaris, Simon & Schuster Audio
Publisher
Scribner
Published
August 5, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Horror