by Stephen King · 1974
Carrie White, a bullied high-school outcast raised by a fanatically religious mother, discovers she has telekinetic powers after her first period triggers a humiliating locker-room hazing; when a prom-night prank goes wrong she turns her power on the town of Chamberlain, Maine. The novel is assembled from Carrie's own narrative interwoven with fictional news clippings, letters, and excerpts from a post-disaster commission report and memoirs by survivors like Susan Snell.