Stephen King is the author of more than forty novels and two hundred short stories. In 2003 he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
""A master storyteller."" --The Los Angeles Times “[King is] . . . the guy who probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe.” —Entertainment Weekly “[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.” —USA Today “Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.” —The Boston Globe “’Salem’s Lot was—and still is—a hugely impressive novel. . . . It’s the slowest of slow burns, all hints and drip-feed. . . . When the chaos finally unfolds, it’s a real payoff.” —The Guardian (London) ""Spine-tingling fiction at its best."" --Grand Rapids Press ""An unabashed chiller."" --Austin American Statesman “A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil.” —Chattanooga Times “Peerless imagination.” —The Observer (London) “A super exorcism...tremendous.” —Kirkus Reviews