Stephen King has written twenty-six novels (including five under the pen name Richard Bachman), five collections of short fiction, one book of criticism, six screenplays, and other short works. According to Stephen J. Spignesi in The Shape Under the Shee...

Stephen King (born 1947) is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction. In his works, King blends elements of the traditional gothic tale with those of the modern psychological thriller, detective, and science fiction genres. Stephen King...

Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Two years later, his father, a merchant seaman, went to the grocery store for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. King's mother was...

The eponymous heroine of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates), implicated two decades ago in the murder of her husband but never charged, is now suspected of bumping off her long-time employer, a wealthy widow. While a vindictive police detective (Christopher Plummer) gathers evidence, the...

You don't have to strain to see that "Dolores Claiborne," Taylor Hackford's film version of the Stephen King novel, has a whopping list of shortcomings -- and yet it still manages to be an engrossing, unsettling and, at times, powerful psychological thriller. The...