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...

AHEAD of the looming budget, 10 and 11 Downing Street are displaying a touch of unwonted solidarity in their determination to cut the burden of regulation on business. Which perhaps proves that Brown and Blair really are scoundrels, in that every government of modern...

Over the last several years, the accounting profession has been wrestling with the degree to which it should be regulated. Recently, in an extreme interpretation of the apparent motto "The only good regulation is no regulation," the profession confronted the AICPA's proposal for a...

China published new rules governing human organ transplants in its latest effort to clean up a business critics say has little regard for medical ethics.But the regulations were packed with shortcomings, a human rights group said Saturday, including a failure to address what it called...

A restaurant trade group asked a court Friday to outlaw a new city regulation that would require some eateries to list calorie counts on their menu boards right next to the price.The New York State Restaurant Association filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in...