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 DARK TOWER VI: Song of Susannah STEPHEN KING. Donald M. Grant/ Scribner, $30 (432p) ISBN 1-880418-59-2 * There's something about a crippled, black, schizophrenic, civil rights activist-turned-gunslinger whose body has been hijacked by a white, pregnant demon from a parallel world that...

(OPERA; METROPOLITAN OPERA ROUSE; 3,800 SEATS; $210 TOP) NEW YORK A Metropolitan Opera presentation of an opera in two acts by Carlisle Floyd, after the story in the Apocryphal book "History of Susannah." Conductor, James Conlon. Production, Robert Falls. Sets and costumes, Michael...