Andrew, Like yourself I was a big King fan back in the 70's and 80's. I really felt that King lost touch after The Talisman that he co-wrote with Peter Straub. It really seemed to me like he was writing one cheesy movie script after another,instead of the classic stuff that came beforehand. I really enjoyed The Dark Tower series,although there were some sleeper moments in a few books. A few recent lesser known stories that King has written,that I have enjoyed were "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" and "Blockade Billy". Both of these had a strong baseball theme,as King is a huge Red Sox fan. "Duma Key" and "11/22/63" are both exceptional books as well. King seemed to be going back to his roots with those two. You may also want to check out "Throttle" and "In The Tall Grass". Both are rather short stories co-written with King's son Joe Hill. I found them fun to read.

I'm really looking forward to "Doctor Sleep",The sequel to "The Shining" due out in October.

If you really like the early work's from King, You may want to pick up the early stuff from Peter Straub and Robert R McCammon, If you have'nt done so already that is. Another King-ish series I have really enjoyed is "The Passage" Trilogy by Justin Cronin. Waiting for the third installment is killing me!

Thanks goodness his son inherited his talent. Right now he is beating the old man hands down. His short story collection "20th Century Ghosts" is incredible!

I really enjoyed "Joyland" as well and haven't enjoyed much of King's work in a long time.

I'm reading "Monster Hunter International" by Larry Correia.  Unfortunately, it's pretty much laughably bad.  The protagonist is just nerd wish fulfillment (overweight, shy kid who's also DEADLY and AWESOME AT EVERYTHING,) the rest of the characters are cardboard at best, (the prettiest girl in the world who's also super awesome at everything because, you know, they're really soul mates, her boyfriend who's dead sexy but, of course, kind of a douche, the tough but caring military vets, etc ...)  I just finished an action scene that was, I'm not kidding, 50 pages long, of just guys shooting at zombies and vampires and wights. Oh, the book also gets into maor gun fetishism, with every weapon being described to the most minute and irrelevant detail, just so the writer can show off his gun wisdom.  (I don't have anything against guns, per se, but just tell me it's a shotgun, I don't need to know what year it was made, what kind of grease was used on it, etc ...)

The series of books came pretty well recommended to me but I can't pass along the endorsement at this point.  I'll finish the first one because I'm obsessive that way.  And I am enjoying a laugh at its expense.