Stephen King
American author (born 1947)
Summary
Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
Originally created by Dachshund
9/25/2001, 3:14:06 PM
Modified
5/11/2026, 2:40:00 AM
Recent revisions
/* Comics */ fixed link
clean up, [[WP:AWB/T|typo(s) fixed]]: well-received → well received
nixed ','
moved [[Christine (1983 film)|''Christine'']] from lead
/* Audiobooks */ remove mention of Audible. It's a distributor, not the publisher.
Removing from [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] has diffusing category using [[c:Help:Cat-a-lot|Cat-a-lot]]
Removing from [[Category:American male non-fiction writers]] has diffusing category using [[c:Help:Cat-a-lot|Cat-a-lot]]
/* 1980s: Different Seasons to The Dark Half */ added 'taken on a life of his own.'
lil' fix: originally released in 2024 like a page says...
/* 2020s: If It Bleeds to present */ Holly Gibney is identified as a character earlier
/* Early life and education */ 'King's aunt Gert paid him a [[Quarter (United States coin)|quarter]] for every story he produced' who cares? [[Evelyn Waugh]] produced juvenilia, too. most writers do. doesn't make it encyclopedically significant.
replaced 'horror novels with more inclusive [[horror fiction]]; 'Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers' sounds grotesque. Is there a code for writing bestsellers? I hope not.
/* Themes */ removed quotation marks from block quote
/* Critical reception */ added author-link=Roger Ebert|
/* 1980s: Different Seasons to The Dark Half */ link to Alan Cheuse
/* Style, themes, and influences */
/* 1980s: Different Seasons to The Dark Half */ fixed it!
/* 1980s: Different Seasons to The Dark Half */ 'fictional town'; do we need to be told that it is fictional? what of Hardy's Essex, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County
/* 1970s: Carrie to The Dead Zone */ added author-link=Harold C. Schonberg|
Far Out is generally unreliable per [[WP:RSP]]
