When it comes to King, everyone thinks of horror and fantasy. Some specific topics that king tends to portray in his works are: child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and the supernatural. For instance, in Gerald's game, Rose Madder, and It a young girl is abused. In both Gerald's game and It Jessie and Beverly are both abused by their father figures growing up. On a similar note, in Rose Madder, Rose is also abused as a child, but it is by her boyfriend, soon to be husband, Norman. In both Rose Madder, and Gerald’s Game Rose and Jessie are both physically, mentally, and sexually abused by their husbands that leaves them traumatized. When it comes to the supernatural, it can almost be assumed that everything that King creates will have some aspect of it. In all three novels It, Gerald’s Game, and Rose Madder the supernatural is extremely evident. It is written to include an alien that can shapeshift and enter into mainly children's minds and feed on their fear. Gerald’s Game contains a man called the Moonlight Man, that is described as pale as the moon, disfigured, and un-humanly, who eats and molests buried corpses. Rose Madder’s supernatural aspect comes from the painting Rose buys, that she believes she can enter into and that the painting can let out its own scenery into the real world. Overall, King reuses many of the same topics in his works, but that does not make him any less of a writer. 

When cross-referencing King’s works like Gerald’s Game, and Rose Madder, mainly similarities can be seen in the characters he creates. For example, the main characters in the two novels are middle aged women, who have been abused as children and adults by the men in their lives. Both Jessie and Rose experience mental, physical, and sexual abuse from their husbands, and both in the end find freedom from their abusers. Not only are the women in these two specific novels similar, but also the men. Norman and Jerald have much in common: respected in their community, jobs in the law field, abusive to their wives, physically strong, short tempered, and misogynistic. While the main men and women in the two novel examples are extremely similar, the supernatural characters are not as similar. In Gerald's Game, the Moonlight Man is perverted, a criminal, a cannibal, and also helpful. While he does not kill Jessie he definitely scares her and has some intent to harm her, whereas Rose Madder has a different affect on Rose than the Moonlight Man to Jessie. Rose Madder, is the embodiment of beauty to Rose, she is strong, brave, and seems to be all knowing, yet she too has flaws that resemble the Moonlight Man. Both of them are disfigured, influential, and overall dangerous if their needs are not met. In total, King has very similar characters in his works, but each one is unique and special in their own way.

While most of King’s works do fall into the realm of horror, his tone does not merely scratch the surface of scary and frantic. King tends to display the tone as raw, honest, and brutal. When analyzing the novels Gerald’s Game and Rose Madder, many similarities in tone can be evident. As typical of King, both works are psychological horrors, but their tone goes beyond the simple “scary”. Both novels have very similar main characters and plots, and due to that their overall tones are extremely similar. Rose Madder and Gerald’s Game both come off as survival due to the plots surrounding the concept that in order to survive, one must escape their enclosure. Both novels come off a survival instinct manual, with notes of revenge, regression-from past memories, and an identity search. The tones of the novels could almost be identical, except for the fact that Gerald’s Game’s tone has a more snarky feel to it while Rose Madder still has some aspects of innocence. Overall, both novels are very similar when it comes to tone, yet they both have aspects that differentiate each other.