10 of the best Stephen King book endings King's reputation for bad endings isn't really a fair one. Image: mashable composite/amazon Stephen King gets a lot of flack for his endings. It's been happening for years now. Opinion pieces have even been written on the topic, some of which the horror author has responded to himself. In the second chapter of the film adaptation of It, King made a cameo in a brilliantly meta scene in which he played a cantankerous shopkeeper, casually dismissing author Bill Denbrough's offer to sign his novel copy by telling Bill he "didn't like the ending" (the ending of the novel