The BEST episodes written by Stephen King

#1 - Part 2

Rose Red - Season 1 - Episode 2

Part two of three. The team of investigators encounter bizarre visions and ghastly dreams, that intimidate and terrify the mansion occupants on the beginning exploratory days of researching the mansions background and corridors. Also they also encounter a restless night of haunting dreams.

#2 - Finale

Kingdom Hospital - Season 1 - Episode 13

#3 - Part 3

Rose Red - Season 1 - Episode 3

In this final episode, the team confronts the spirits that haunt the mansion. The mystery about what happened at Rose Red is finally revealed. But will the group be able to make it out of the mansion alive?

#4 - Part 1

Rose Red - Season 1 - Episode 1

Professor Reardon assembles a team of psychic’s to investigate the paranormal activities at Rose Red in Seattle. When they arrive at the house, strange things start to happen and they begin to find out some of the mystery which surrounds it.

#5 - The Stand

The Stand - Season 1 - Episode 4

The final confrontation between good and evil takes shape. Tom gathers information and tries to return to Boulder. With Mother Abigail gone and several members of the committee killed in an explosion, Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph set off West as instructed. Nadine and Harold set off for Las Vegas but Randall Flagg has something special in store for both of them. Flagg's group starts to fall apart. Trashcan Man decides to set the biggest fire of his life.

#6 - The Plague

The Stand - Season 1 - Episode 1

When a deadly virus escapes from a government research facility, few prove to be immune to its effects. With symptoms similar to the flu, those who come into contact with it quickly die. One survivor is Stu Redmond, a gas station attendant from Texas, who suffers no ill effects whatsoever. Kept in a medical research facility in Vermont, doctors try to determine why he is still alive. Others that also survive include Frannie Goldsmith who lives with her dad; Nick Andros, a deaf-mute; a rock musician, Larry Underwood; and Lloyd Henreid, in jail for murder. Survivors begin to have dreams, either about an old African-American woman, Mother Abigail, or a much scarier evil man.

#7 - Part 3

Storm of the Century - Season 1 - Episode 3

What Linoge desires is an heir, one of the eight small children that he had incapacitated early on in the miniseries — someone to "carry on his work when he can no longer do it himself", although Linoge's life spans millennia, he is not immortal. Any of the eight children, he states, will suit him.

#8 - The Dreams

The Stand - Season 1 - Episode 2

The plague has taken its toll and only those immune to the virus are alive. The forces of good and evil are slowly taking shape. Those that have been dreaming about Mother Abigail are slowly making their way towards her in Nebraska. Stu Redmond joins up with Frannie Goldsmith and others. When Nick Andros and the first of the travelers arrive, Mother Abigail tells them they will soon be moving further west, to Colorado. Randall Flagg is gathering his own forces as he releases Lloyd Henreid from jail. Through her dreams, he also recruits Nadine Cross, who had been traveling with Larry Underwood.

#9 - Heads Will Roll

Under the Dome - Season 2 - Episode 1

Barbie's life is in Big Jim's hands; the dome becomes magnetized; Julia tries to save the life of a mysterious girl who may have clues about the origin of the dome.

#10 - Part 1

Storm of the Century - Season 1 - Episode 1

A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island (also the setting of King's novel Dolores Claiborne) off the coast of Maine. This storm is so powerful that all access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island, until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, the citizens of the town are visited by Andre Linoge (Colm Feore), a menacing stranger who apparently knows all of the townsfolk's darkest secrets (among which are abortion, adultery, growing marijuana, and gay-bashing). After having killed one of the town's residents, Linoge is jailed. Even though he is kept in jail by the town's trusted constable, Mike Anderson (Timothy Daly), Linoge is somehow able to force people to commit suicide or kill others from within his cell. Linoge constantly repeats "Give me what I want and I'll go away" through his victims as well as to his victims. Interestingly, although the adults are terrified of the stranger, all the children are drawn to him.

#11 - Part 2

Bag of Bones - Season 1 - Episode 2

#12 - The Betrayal

The Stand - Season 1 - Episode 3

Hundreds are now in Boulder, Colorado with Mother Abigail but Randall Flagg has sent Nadine Cross to infiltrate the group. Unable to seduce Larry, she then sets her sights on Harold. But just as the citizens begin to organize their lives, Mother Abigail leaves Boulder. The residents do become concerned about what Randall Flagg, based in Las Vegas, may be up to and decide to send three people west to find out.

#13 - Part 1

Bag of Bones - Season 1 - Episode 1

Bag of Bones is the story of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire and a new love haunted by past secrets. Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, played by Pierce Brosnan, is unable to stop grieving after the sudden death of his wife Jo. A dream inspires him to return to the couple's lakeside retreat in western Maine where he becomes involved in a custody battle between the daughter of an attractive young widow and the child's enormously wealthy grandfather, the mysterious ghostly visitations, the ever-escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.

#14 - Part 2

Storm of the Century - Season 1 - Episode 2

In a dream, the townspeople see themselves walking into the sea two-by-two with the word Croatoan (a reference to the colony of Roanoke) carved on their heads. Eventually, Mike finds out that Linoge is an anagram of the demon Legion and agrees to organize the townspeople so they can hear his demands.

#15 - Part Two

Salem's Lot - Season 1 - Episode 2

More and more, as the unsuspecting inhabitants of Salem's Lot die one after another, Ben Mears, his former school teacher, Jason Burke, and Dr. Bill Norton come to realize that the curse that plagues the town is starting to spread. Now, under those grave circumstances, Ben must summon up every last ounce of courage to enter the Marsten House, the dark lair of the ancient vampire, for the final confrontation between the forces of good and the inexhaustible source of evil. However, the immortal army of darkness is unstoppable, and the archfiend's black coffin rests safely in the bowels of the unholy place. Can one man alone cleanse Salem's Lot, the bloodsuckers' sanctuary?

#16 - Under the Yum-Yum Tree

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 3

The bool hunt leads Lisey to a moment from her past, when Scott shared a confession about his family and traumatic childhood.

#17 - No Light, No Spark

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 7

Two years after Scott’s death, Lisey must again confront mortality. But this time, she has a plan—and it involves Boo’ya Moon.

#18 - Part One

Salem's Lot - Season 1 - Episode 1

Intent on writing a book on the notorious Marsten House, an old, rumour-filled property atop an alleged haunted hilltop, the successful novelist, Ben Mears, returns to his peaceful hometown of Salem's Lot, Maine, after years of absence. There, Mears discovers that a pair of new tenants already reside in the sinister house, the eerily cryptic newcomer, Richard Straker, and his elusive business partner, Kurt Barlow; an occurrence that coincides with unaccountable disappearances and a spate of unusual deaths. Before long, the worried townsfolk start pointing the finger at the newly arrived Mears, as well as Straker and Barlow, who, now, have become the main suspects in a peculiar and thorny case. Who is behind the veil of terror that shrouds Salem's Lot?

#19 - Now You Must Be Still

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 6

With Darla's help, Lisey sets out to rescue Amanda so the three sisters can unite to take on Jim Dooley.

#20 - The Circle Closes

The Stand (2020) - Season 1 - Episode 9

After seeing both the light and the dark, Frannie makes her stand.

#21 - Blood Bool

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 2

Lisey calls Professor Dashmiel to warn him about Jim Dooley, who is already close at hand.

#22 - Jim Dandy

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 4

After a terrifying experience, Lisey opens up the gates of her memory to find answers in Scott’s world of Boo’ya Moon.

#23 - Part 3

The Shining - Season 1 - Episode 3

Conclusion. Danny uses his "shining" to call Halloran (Melvin Van Peebles) for help as Jack finally goes over the edge. Stephen King has a cameo as Gage Creed.

#24 - Part 2

The Shining - Season 1 - Episode 2

Part 2 of three. Jack begins his slide into dementia when he uncovers the hotel's devious past, while Danny encounters the thing in room 217 and the horrific topiary.

#25 - The Good Brother

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 5

Scott takes Lisey back to when she first learned about Boo’ya Moon and reveals the horrifying truth about his family's past.

#26 - Gramma

The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 44

A young boy is convinced his ailing grandmother is really a monster.

#27 - Bool Hunt

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 1

Lisey Landon begins to face repressed realities about her late husband, novelist Scott Landon, two years after his death.

#28 - Part 1

The Shining - Season 1 - Episode 1

Part 1 of three. Struggling writer Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) takes his wife (Rebecca De Mornay) and psychic young son (Courtland Mead) along to his winter job as caretaker of a sinister mountain resort. Jack's son has psychic abilities which come to the fore during their stay.

#29 - Lisey’s Story

Lisey's Story - Season 1 - Episode 8

Lisey faces Dooley and discovers Scott’s final gift to her.

#30 - Part 2

The Tommyknockers - Season 1 - Episode 2

As the people of Haven become more obsessed with their inventions, such as Nancy Voss's "disintegrator ray", Merrill goes missing and town's telephone line cuts off. Convinced that something in Haven caused his grandson's illness Ev Hillman begins researching the town's history, Trooper Butch Duggan returns to Haven looking for Merrill and his missing troopers and Anderson is determined to uncover the object.

#31 - Part 2

Salem's Lot (2004) - Season 1 - Episode 2

#32 - Part 1

The Tommyknockers - Season 1 - Episode 1

In the small town Haven, in Maine, the aspiring writer Roberta 'Bobbi' Anderson lives in an isolated house with her alcoholic boyfriend, the poet James "Gard" Gardner; and their dog Petey. While Gard is traveling to a poet's convention, she stumbles with a green stone and she becomes obsessed to excavate the object.

#33 - Part 1

Salem's Lot (2004) - Season 1 - Episode 1

Ben Mears, a writer returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot), where he spent the first few years of his life, to write a book. Little does he or the townfolk realize that a couple of other new residents are coming...Straker, a antiques dealer, and his partner and master Barlow, a ancient and malevolent vampire bent on making Salem's Lot his new home.