While doing some research after a recent debate with a friend about certain works by King being novellas or short stories, I realized that there is actually a lot of disparity around about Stephen King's novellas. Some refer to some short stories as novellas or the other way around, while some refer to the early Bachman books like The Long Walk and Rage as novellas. I think much of it is because many people don't have access to the word count of alot of this work and there are also different definitions of a novella/short story/novel

Ultimately of course, it doesn't really matter and what matters is that they're all great stories but out of my curiosity, I'd like to know if there is a full list of what are technically Stephen King's novellas. I saw a list on this website, but Wikipedia also has a list (some of them indicated as "novelettes", which seem like almost the same thing to me) that includes other stories that I truly suspect are novellas (like Little Sisters of Eluria, which is pretty darn long but not included in the stephenking.com list).

Also it seems like if The Breathing Method (which takes up about 60 pages of the newer Signet paperback edition of Different Seasons) is considered a novella, then there should be some other "short" stories that could be considered novellas.

Does the stephenking.com site have the definitive list of what are considered the novellas? Is there an online resource to find the word count of fiction works?

*Other than the obvious stories in Different Seasons, Four Past Midnight, and Hearts in Atlantis, here is a list of other stories that are sometimes referred to as novellas/novelettes based on length probably, and I might be inclined to agree:



Little Sisters of Eluria (Everything's Eventual)
Everything's Eventual (Everything's Eventual)
Riding The Bullet (Everything's Eventual)

The Gingerbread Girl (Just After Sunset)
N. (Just After Sunset)
A Very Tight Place (Just After Sunset)

The Mist (Skeleton Crew)
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (Skeleton Crew)

and the uncollected stories UR and Morality

*I'd love to know what everyone thinks about this, I'm just curious...