Misery

King proved with Misery that the most effective horror needs nothing supernatural. Annie Wilkes is a character who chills precisely because she is recognisable: admiration that becomes possession, care that becomes control. Paul Sheldon trapped in that bed for weeks builds one of the most claustrophobic situations in suspense literature. There is also a reflection on the relationship between writer and reader that is genuine and not entirely comfortable. King at his purest.