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
Peerless imagination. The Observer (London)
An unabashed chiller. Austin American Statesman
[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet. USA Today
[King is] the guy who probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe. Entertainment Weekly
Spine-tingling fiction at its best." Grand Rapids Press
A super exorcism. . . . Tremendous. Kirkus Reviews
A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil. Chattanooga Times
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.