This companion provides a two-part introduction to best-selling author Stephen King, whose enormous popularity over the years has gained him an audience well beyond readers of horror fiction, the genre with which he is most often associated. Part I considers the reception of King's work, the film adaptations that they gave rise to, the fictional worlds in which some of his novels are set, and the more useful approaches to King's varied corpus. Part II consists of entries for each series, novel, story, screenplay and even poem, including works never published or produced, as well as characters and settings.

Prizes

Winner of Bram Stoker Awards (Nonfiction) 2011

“essential reference”—Library Journal; “treasure trove of trivia, biographical tidbits and bibliographical explanations”—Rue Morgue; “marvelous...excellent....highly recommend”—Monster Librarian; “excellent series of Literary Companions”—Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

Rocky Wood is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of many books about Stephen King. He is president of the Horror Writers Association and lives in Victoria, Australia.