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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...

Byline: Joan Hinkemeyer The Empress of One By Faith Sullivan. Milkweed Editions. 404 pages. $22.95. In her latest novel, Faith Sullivan returns to the small southern Minnesota town of Harvester that she made so familiar to readers in The...

Sir Alec Guinness, his hound dog face and bulbous eyes at their most glowingly soulful, returns to public television tonight (WETA-Channel 26 at 9), playing a Spanish priest who at the end of his life seeks out challenges to his beliefs and emerges with...

As Peru heads into the most sensational trial in its history, the country is being taken back 16 years to the night when hooded men stormed a barbecue in a Lima tenement courtyard and machine-gunned the crowd, killing 15 people including an 8-year-old boy.It was...

A former Peruvian soldier convicted there in a 1985 massacre of suspected guerrillas was sentenced to six months in federal prison for lying to U.S. officials to obtain a visa.Telmo Ricardo Hurtado was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in May in a deal with prosecutors...

[The Shining] has flaws, some minor and some serious…. But when all's said, the novel works! It makes one tremble in anticipation of the day when King gets it all together and writes a 'perfect' book…. King's style … is his most obvious fault. It's all good writing, it's all pertinent, but it goes on and on…. Setting a realistic scene and creating believably complex characters are laudable traits, but King seriously overdoes it.

The haunted hotel [of The Shining] is a stock sort of device, left over from the days when people were still writing straight ghost stories. The struggling family offers the pathos that no doubt is in part responsible for the book's popularity—real characters, beautifully handled for the most part, though some of the development toward the end is a bit too hasty. Even the child with the "gift" is a common theme of Stephen King's…. But herein they are combined, redev...

To say that Stephen King is not an elegant writer … is putting it mildly. But inelegance is not precisely the problem in "The Shining."… [In] "The Shining," memories and fantasies often find themselves pretentiously enclosed in parentheses. Sometimes non-punctuation or italics are used—quite arbitrarily—for gimmicky stream of consciousness effect. Occasionally we are subjected to all capitals in parentheses with triple exclamation points (!!! ON BOTH M...