Cell (2016)
Although many Stephen King books dwell on cosmic terrors and monsters that are often quite human, there have been a number of his books that dwelt on more traditional horror material. He got vampires and werewolves out of his way early in his career, and there have been plenty of ghosts, but it wasn't until 2006 that he decided to enter the realm of zombies, despite being friends and often a collaborator with George A. Romero. When it came time to do zombies King decided not to go with the traditional but instead added a healthy dose of technological fear. For Cell he pulled from movies such as 28 Days Later and added a hefty dose of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend on top of it. What he created still had many of the apocalyptic tropes that surround these stories, but it was something purely him. It was also relatively short and pulpy. It was one of the late-career novels that pulled King out of the mire of overlong epics he had been churnin...