Clive Barker has better demonic sex scenes but Stephen King was probably the first novelist I read whose works went into the hundreds of pages. I went off him after It and just read a few things here and there which varied from pretty good to not very good. I don't really have time to read his stuff now but I am sure getting off the drugs has only improved his work. The lowest point was Insomnia for me. Not terrible, and had a lot of potential but then it gets to this part that is just bizarre and didn't seem very well planned. I remember thinking "this would work better in a movie and isn't really meant to be appreciated as a novel." Because it was very visual. If you've read it I'm talking about the part that happens in an airplane.