| 100% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |
| 58% | SEMATARY | 8 | "Pet ___" (1983 Stephen King novel with a title that mimics a child's writing) |
| 53% | FIRESTARTER | 11 | Stephen King novel with a pyrokinetic character |
| 53% | NEEDFULTHINGS | 13 | Stephen King novel featuring a shop that always has exactly the right items in stock (2 wds.) |
| 51% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 50% | CARRIE | 6 | 1974 Stephen King novel with a film adaptation starring Sissy Spacek |
| 50% | CUJO | 4 | Title St. Bernard in a Stephen King novel |
| 49% | CROUCHEND | 9 | Area in the London Borough of Haringey that shares its name with a 1980 Stephen King short story |
| 48% | SHINING | 7 | Stephen King novel set in haunted hotel, The __ |
| 47% | INSOMNIA | 8 | Stephen King novel about a man with a sleep disorder |
| 47% | NEEDFULTHINGS | 13 | Stephen King novel set in a gift shop (2 wds.) |
| 47% | CASE | 4 | Word in the title of many a detective novel |
| 47% | BLACKBEAUTY | 11 | Classic novel with a chapter titled "My Breaking In" |
| 46% | ANNA | 4 | "___ Karenina," Leo Tolstoy novel with a palindromic name in its title |
| 46% | ROCKLOBSTER | 11 | B-52s hit with a crustacean in the title |
| 45% | TUT | 3 | Boy with a tomb in the Valley of the Kings |
| 44% | CAR | 3 | What the title character in Stephen King's "Christine" is |
| 43% | EYE | 3 | "___ in the Sky," song by the Alan Parsons Project with a rhyming title |
| 43% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 42% | CUJO | 4 | Rabid dog in a Stephen King novel |
| 42% | CUJO | 4 | Killer dog in a Stephen King novel |
| 41% | CARRIE | 6 | Title girl in Stephen King's first published novel |
| 41% | CUJO | 4 | Title canine in a Stephen King book |
| 41% | DAISYBUCHANAN | 13 | Woman with a botanical name in a classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties (2 wds.) |
| 41% | NADAL | 5 | Athlete given a noble title by the king of Spain in 2025 |
| 40% | PREGO | 5 | With a bun in the oven |
| 40% | SHINING | 7 | "The ___," horror novel by Stephen King about a family's trip in the peak of winter to a desolate hotel |
| 40% | SALEM | 5 | Massachusetts town in a Stephen King title |
| 40% | CHRISTINE | 9 | Stephen King novel about a possessed car |
| 40% | CUJO | 4 | Stephen King novel about a scary dog |