Thinner

史蒂芬·金以理查·巴赫曼(Richard Bachman)筆名所寫的驚悚小說，1984年出版

1996年由湯姆荷蘭德改編電影《Thinner》(瘦到死)

律師比利·哈雷克(Billy Halleck)非常享受過著上流社會的奢華生活。他擁有一切——康乃狄克州的昂貴房產、疼愛的家人……還有那多出來的50磅體重，醫生一再警告這將會是他的死因。
在一個不經意的瞬間，哈雷克在街上撞死了一位穿越馬路的老婦人，犯下過失殺人罪。但哈雷克擁有強大的人脈，最終只被輕判……這讓老婦人那位神秘古老的父親極為憤怒，他以一個字進行復仇：瘦！

如今的哈雷克分分秒秒活在恐懼中，他發現，曾經難以減掉的體重竟然輕而易舉地、迅速地，一周一周地下降。不久後，比利·哈雷克將瘦到無影無蹤……除非他能在完全消失之前，找到這場活生生噩夢的根源，並逆轉他所經歷的一切。

This “superbly crafted…extraordinary” (Booklist) #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, “pulsates with evil…[and] will have you on the edge of your seat” (Publishers Weekly).

Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. But Halleck has some powerful local connections and gets off with a slap on the wrist…much to the fury of the woman’s mysterious and ancient father, who exacts revenge with a single word: “Thinner.”

Now a terrified Halleck finds the weight once so difficult to shed dropping effortlessly—and rapidly—by the week. Soon there will be nothing left of Billy Halleck…unless he can somehow locate the source of his living nightmare and reverse what’s happened to him before he utterly wastes away…