There have been many books published about Stephen King and his works.
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 58 novels and six non-fiction books. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.
1981 Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King Edward J. Zagorski: New American Library, Education Dept 1984 Stephen King: The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre Douglas E. Winter Signet Updated edition (December 2, 1986) 1986 Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Signet 1987 The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1988 Reign of Fear: The Fiction and Film of Stephen King (1982-1989) Don Herron Pan 5/1/1988 Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller McGraw-Hill 1988 Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic Tony Magistrale Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1989 Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (1989) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Grand Central Publishing 1989 The Stephen King Companion George Beahm Macdonald 4/1/1988 The Unseen King Tyson Blue Borgo Pr 8/7/1990 The Stephen King Quiz Book Stephen Spignesi Signet 1991 The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia (includes art by Steve Fiorilla, Jim McDermott and others) Stephen Spignesi Contemporary Books; 6/1991 Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia Stephen J Spignesi Popular Culture Ink 3/27/1992 The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape Tony Magistrale (Ed.) Praeger 1992 The Second Stephen King Quiz Book Stephen Spignesi Signet 1994 Stephen King's AmericaBy Jonathan P. Davis Bowling Green State University Popular Press 11/1/1997 Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge: Hundreds of Brainteasing Questions on Minute Details and Little-Known Facts about the World's Leading Horror Writer and His Work Robert W. Bly Kensington 1998 Stephen King (part of series Modern {literary} Critical Views) Harold Bloom (Ed.) Chelsea House 1998 The Lost Work of Stephen King: A Guide to Unpublished Manuscripts, Story Fragments, Alternative Versions and Oddities Stephen Spignesi Birch Lane Press 2000 Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic: Lovecraft, Matheson, and King David A. Oakes Greenwood Press 2001 The Stephen King Universe; A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner Cemetery Dance 3/8/2001 The Modern Weird Tale S. T. Joshi McFarland 5/1/2001 The Essential Stephen King: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies, and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer Stephen Spignesi: New Page Books 2002 Revisiting Stephen King: A Critical Companion Sharon A. Russell Greenwood Press 2002 The Literary Equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries?: Academics, Moralists, and the Stephen King Phenomenon Smith, Greg The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4, Summer 2002 2003 The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King First and Second Editions 2004: Third Edition Rocky Wood, David Rawsthorne, Norma Blackburn Kanrock Partners 2004 "Diabolical Dreaming in Stephen King's ""The Man in the Black Suit""" Hansen, Tom The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, Spring 2004 12/2005 The Road to the Dark Tower Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance 2005 The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book Brian Freeman & Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance 5/30/2006 The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner St. Martin's Griffin; 3/2006 Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished Rocky Wood, with David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn Cemetery Dance 2007 The Stephen King Collector's Guide Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks Kanrock Partners 2008 Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author Justin Brooks Cemetery Dance 12/2008 Stephen King: A Biography Albert Rolls Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated 4/2009 Stephen King: The Non-Fiction Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks Cemetery Dance 7/15/2009 Stephen King on the Big Screen Mark Browning Intellect, Limited 2009 The Stephen King Illustrated Companion: The Life and Works of the Master of Horror Bev Vincent Fall River Press 2009 Stephen King: A Biography Albert Rolls Greenwood Press 3/1/2010 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Robin Furth Cemetery Dance 8/3/2010 Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King Hans-Ake Lilja Cemetery Dance 2010 Stephen King: America's Storyteller Tony Magistrale Praeger 6/7/2011 Stephen King Is Richard Bachman Michael R Collings, Stephen King Overlook Connection 2011 The Stephen King Movie Quiz Book Andrew J. Rausch and Ronald Riley BearManor Media 5/27/2011 The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen King Andrew J. Rausch: : BearManor Media 4/11/2011 Stephen King: A Literary Companion Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks McFarland 8/15/2011 Stephen King's Gothic John Sears University of Wales Press 9/13/2013 The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book Brian James Freeman, Kevin Quigley, and Hans-Ake Lilja Cemetery Dance 9/13/2013 The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book: Revised & Updated 2nd Edition! Brian James Freeman & Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance 2/1/2014 Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film Scott Von Doviak Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 10/1/2015 The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror George Beahm St. Martin's Press 12/28/2015 The Dark Tower Companion Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance 3/22/2016 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance (Revised & Updated!) Robin Furth Cemetery Dance 9/1/2017 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Stephen King The Editors Of Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly 2/26/2018 Bumpty-Bumpty-Bump!: The Stephen King Daily Reader (Kindle edition) Michael Roch 6/12/2018 America's Dark Theologian-The Religious Imagination Of Stephen King Douglas E. Cowan New York University Press 10/16/2018 Stephen King, American Master: A Creepy Corpus of Facts About Stephen King & His Work Stephen Spignesi Permuted Press
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir by American author Stephen King that describes his experiences as a writer and his advice for aspiring writers. First published in 2000 by Charles Scribner's Sons, On Writing is King's first book after being involved in a car accident a year earlier. In 2010, Scribner republished the memoir as a 10th anniversary edition, which featured an updated reading list from King.
Danse Macabre is a 1981 non-fiction book by Stephen King, about horror fiction in print, TV, radio, film and comics, and the influence of contemporary societal fears and anxieties on the genre. It was republished on February 23, 2010 with an additional new essay entitled "What's Scary".
A critical analysis of King's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's The Modern Weird Tale (2001).
Sunand Tryambak Joshi, known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Joshi has prepared several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce. He has also written on crime novelist John Dickson Carr and on Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James, and has edited collections of their works, as well as collections of the best work of numerous other weird writers.
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Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.
The Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. Published in 1977, it is King's third published novel and first hardback bestseller: the success of the book firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre. The setting and characters are influenced by King's personal experiences, including both his visit to The Stanley Hotel in 1974 and his recovery from alcoholism. The novel was followed by a sequel, Doctor Sleep, published in 2013.
Skeleton Crew is a collection of short fiction by American writer Stephen King, published by Putnam in June 1985. A limited edition of a thousand copies was published by Scream/Press in October 1985 (ISBN 978-0910489126), illustrated by J. K. Potter, containing an additional short story, "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson", which had originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, and was later incorporated into King's 1987 novel The Tommyknockers. The original title of this book was Night Moves.
The Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for non-fiction.
"The Ten O'Clock People" is a short story by American author Stephen King, published in the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. Unlike many of King's stories which take place in fictional places like Castle Rock, Maine, "Ten O'Clock People" takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. A film adaptation has been announced.
Rainy Season is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in the Spring 1989 issue of Midnight Graffiti magazine, and later included in King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. It ended a bout of writer's block from which King had been suffering.
Randall Flagg is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King, who has appeared in at least nine of his novels. Described as "an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark," he has supernatural abilities involving necromancy, prophecy, and influence over animal and human behavior. His goals typically center on bringing down civilizations through destruction and conflict. He has a variety of names, usually with the initial letters "R. F." but with occasional exceptions, such as Walter o'Dim, originally envisioned by King as a separate character, in The Dark Tower series and Marten Broadcloak.
Brian James Freeman is an author whose fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies including Borderlands 5, Corpse Blossoms, and all four volumes of the Shivers series. His first novel, Black Fire, was written under the pseudonym James Kidman. Published in 2004 by Leisure Books and Cemetery Dance Publications, the book was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, one of the major awards in the horror genre. His work has been nominated for several awards in the horror genre over the years. Cemetery Dance Publications recently published his Blue November Storms, a new novella, and The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book, which he wrote with Stephen King expert Bev Vincent. Acclaimed horror artist Glenn Chadbourne created over fifty unique illustrations for the book.
Glenn Chadbourne is an American artist. He lives in Newcastle, Maine. He is best known for his work in the horror and fantasy genres, having created covers and illustrated books and magazines for publishers such as Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, and Earthling Publications. Mr. Chadbourne is known for his sense of humour and down to earth manner, as well as the stark honesty of his work.
Bev Vincent is best known as the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated, authorised companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award. He has been writing News From the Dead Zone for Cemetery Dance magazine since March, 2001.
Richard Thomas Chizmar is an American writers, the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications. He also edits anthologies, writes fiction, produces films, writes screenplays, and teaches writing.
Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. It is associated with Cemetery Dance magazine, which was founded in 1988. They began to publish books in 1992. They later expanded to encompass a magazine and website featuring news, interviews, and reviews related to horror literature.
The Dollar Baby is an arrangement where best-selling author Stephen King grants permission to students and aspiring filmmakers or theatre producers to adapt one of his short stories for $1. The term is used to refer to the film or play itself, or the maker. The production budgets range from a few hundred dollars to over $60,000 and the film formats range from home video to professional 35 mm film. A book about the Dollar Baby films was released in July 2015 by Dollar Baby filmmaker Shawn S. Lealos. It tells the story of 19 of the Dollar Baby filmmakers as they talk about making their movies and their careers following their Dollar Babies.
"Chattery Teeth" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in Cemetery Dance and was later collected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
Rocky Wood was an award-winning New Zealand-born Australian writer and researcher best known for his books about horror author Stephen King. He is the first author from outside North America or Europe to hold the position of President of the Horror Writers Association. Wood was born in Wellington, New Zealand and lived in Melbourne, Australia with his family. He has been a freelance writer for over 35 years. His writing career began at university, where he wrote a national newspaper column in New Zealand on extra-terrestrial life and UFO-related phenomena and published other articles about the phenomenon worldwide, in the course of which research he met such figures as Erich von Däniken and J. Allen Hynek; and had articles on the security industry published in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa. In October 2010, Wood was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. He died of complications on 1 December 2014.
Underwood–Miller Inc. was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house in San Francisco, California, founded in 1976. It was founded by Tim Underwood, a San Francisco book and art dealer, and Chuck Miller, a Pennsylvania used book dealer, after the two had met at a convention.
Jill Bauman is an American artist. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award five times and nominated for the Chesley Award several times. Her art has been exhibited at the Delaware Art Museum, the Moore College of Art, Art Students League of New York, the NY Illustrators Society & and the Science Fiction Museum of Seattle. Jill Bauman has created hundreds of book covers for horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and best selling books including 23 of the Cat Who… books by Lilian Jackson Braun during the 1980s and 1990s.
According to books by Tyson Blue, Stephen J. Spignesi, and Rocky Wood et al., there are numerous unpublished works by Stephen King that have come to light throughout King's career. These allegedly include novels and short stories, most of which remain unfinished. Most are stored among Stephen King's papers in the special collections of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine, some of which are freely accessible to the library's visitors. However, others require King's permission to read. Additionally, there are a number of uncollected short stories, published throughout King's long career in various anthologies and periodicals, that have never been published in a King collection.
Ubris was a literary journal published by the University of Maine. It is most notable for having published a number of Stephen King's stories and poems when he was a student at the university.
