Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of his Work, Life, and Influences

Overview

Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly fifty-year career, and discover how the themes of his writing reflect the changing times and events within his life. Featuring archival photos and documents from King’s personal collection, this chronological history delves into the stories behind how his novels, novellas, short stories, and adaptations came to be.

Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and InfluencesStephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences

With critically acclaimed titles that have also been turned into blockbuster sensations like It and Carrie, King’s work has stood the test of time across decades. This history of the writer’s struggles, triumphs, bestsellers, lesser-known stories, collaborations, and more makes the perfect addition to any Stephen King fan’s collection.

Celebrate the beloved author and King of Horror with this informational and entertaining look inside King’s most iconic titles and the culture they have created.

From Entertainment Weekly

The spookiest thing about the just-published Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences is how many fascinating tidbits of information about Stephen King writer Bev Vincent fits into the book, while still leaving space aplenty for archival photos and documents from the Carrie writer’s personal collections. You’ll have to buy the tome to see the images but you can entertain (and terrify!) your friends with these ten fascinating facts we gleaned from reading Vincent’s book. >> Read more

About the Book

About the Book

Category:History, Biography & Culture
Subject area:Literary biography
Format:Hardcover; 240 Pages
ISBN:978-0-7603-7681-2
Size:8.27 in x 10.63 in / 210.06 mm x 270.00 mm
Publication date:  September 13, 2022
Quarto Imprint:Epic Ink
E-book (Kindle) ASINB0BDP13HQR
E-book publication dateOctober 4, 2022

Translations announced:

  • Stephen King: Svemir najčitanijeg pisca današnjice – Croatian (Lumen Publishing) – October 31, 2022; ISBN: 9789533421865 — translated by Marko Maras
  • Stephen King: La guida definitiva al Re — Italian (Mondadori Electa)- November 2022; ISBN: 8891836400 — translated by Tania Spagnoli and Federico Zaniboni
  • Stephen King: kompletní průvodce životem a dílem – Czech (Pangea) – August 31, 2023; ISBN: 9788027714513 — translated by Jitka Čupová
  • Stephen King: Sein Werk, sein Leben, seine Inspiration – German (Edition Olms) – September 15, 2023; ISBN: 978-3283013226 — translated by Michael Auwers
  • Stephen King. Kompletny przewodnik po życiu, twórczości i inspiracjach – Polish (Wydawnictwo ARKADY) – September 6, 2023; ISBN: 9788321352657 — translated by Wiesław Marcysiak
  • Stephen King: Una gran celebración de la vida y la obra del gran maestro del terror – Spanish (Libros Cupula – Editorial Planeta) – Fall 2023; ISBN: 9788448036829 — translated by Jaume Muñoz Cunill
  • Stephen King: Munkái, élete, inspirációi – Hungarian (Gabo) – Fall 2023; ISBN: 9789635664306 — translated by Novák Gábor
  • スティーヴン・キング大全, Japanese (Kawade Shobo), February 26, 2024; ISBN: 978-4-309-20892-3 — translated by Kenji Kazama
  • 스티븐 킹 마스터 클래스, Korean (황금가지 – The Golden Bough), August 9, 2024; ISBN: 9791170524281 — translated by Kang Kyung-ah
  • Stephen King for Young Adults: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences (becker&mayer! kids) – September 2024; ISBN: 9780760387726
  • Stephen King: Sveobuhvatno istraživanje njegovog rada, života i uticaja, Serbian (Vulkan), 2024; ISBN: 978-86-10-05147-6 — translated by Vladimir Nikolic

Read the news items: Stephen King slavi 75 godina, a njegova monografija će se naći i na hrvatskom tržištu. Prvi put će otkriti koje ekranizacije svojih djela voli and Stephenu Kingu izlazi uskoro u izdanju Lumena

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I – 1950-1969: The Future Artist as a Young Man
   Interlude: The Poetry of Stephen King
Part II – 1970s: The Doubleday Years
   Interlude: Stephen King as Richard Bachman
   Interlude: Welcome to Castle Rock
Part III – 1980s: Midas Touch
   Interlude: The Dark Tower
   Interlude: Unseen King
   Interlude: Welcome to Derry
Part IV – 1990s: Experimentation and Change		   Interlude: The Accident
Part V – 2000s: After the Accident
Interlude: The Stephen King Universe
Part VI – 2010 and Beyond: King of Crime
Conclusion: The Test of Time
Selected Bibliography
Appendix I: Books
Appendix II: Short Stories
Appendix III: Adaptations
Endnotes
About the Author & Acknowledgements

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Reviews

Nominated for the 2023 Locus Awards

Listed on Locus’s 2022 Recommended Reading List

Marcus Errico at The It List (Yahoo Entertainment News)

Nearly a half-century since the publication of Carrie and on the eve of his 75th birthday, Stephen King remains the unrivaled master of the macabre; the author’s pop culture presence is as formidable as ever, with his latest novel, Fairy Tale, hitting shelves last week and his new movie adaptation, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, arriving on Netflix next month. For the aptly titled Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, noted King chronicler Bev Vincent’s spent years delving into the undoubtedly haunted halls of King’s archives, unearthing letters, notes, outlines and photos that shed light on the novelist’s inspirations and frustrations. The resulting encyclopedic account of the novelist’s life and career, with pitstops in such terrifying towns as Castle Rock and Derry, is a (trick or) treat for all of us Constant Readers.

Anthony Breznican — Vanity Fair

What do you get for the Stephen King fan who already has every book he’s ever written? This impressively illustrated volume is the answer. Penned by Bev Vincent, who has been chronicling the author for ages, this collection goes book by book, film by film, and far beyond to gather history, stories, and engaging bits of ephemera (childhood photos, old letters, manuscript fragments) in one place. Vincent’s book is an affectionate one, but he confronts the lows as well as the highs of King’s life and career, incorporating criticism along with the hosannas.  What Vincent accomplishes particularly well, and what King’s Constant Readers will find most satisfying, is the way he goes into detail about how the author’s stories were inspired by events from his life. If anyone ever annoys King with the oft-asked question “Where do you get your ideas?” he can throw this book at them. It’s a heavy one, so he’ll have to throw it hard.

Michael Berry — Portland Press Herald

A new book about Stephen King promises a lot – and it delivers

In ‘Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences,’ Bev Vincent is at once curious, thorough, scholarly and lively.

Just after King’s 75 birthday, long-time King scholar, friend and collaborator Bev Vincent has taken the opportunity to update his “Stephen King Companion” with “Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences.” The subtitle promises a lot, and King’s loyal “Constant Readers” will be delighted with the results.

Similar books have been published before, but this one strikes a happy balance between the unwieldiness of an encyclopedia and the skimpiness of some semi-professional endeavors.

“Stephen King” features a generous helping of illustrations, from family snapshots to correspondence with Doubleday’s Thompson, who essentially “discovered” King, to a photo of him accepting a medal from President Obama.

When it comes to expounding on King’s work, Vincent knows his stuff, through and through. Whether writing about King’s radio station or time with the Rock-Bottom Remainders, Vincent is curious in his approach and thorough in his results.

Vincent’s clear, lively writing style suits the Companion. He’s scholarly without being pedantic and unearths some intriguing trivia.

King has threatened to retire many times, and despite hiatuses, near-tragedies and fallow periods, he maintains an impressive output for someone who has been around for three quarters of a century.

As Vincent demonstrates, King still occupies the Throne of Horror. Long may he reign!

Michael Cavacini

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro in Locus

Bev Vincent writes: “Characters suffering grievous physical injuries began to appear regularly in his books and stories, and the fact that he wrote frequently about pain – which he called the little green God of agony in one story – reveals much about what he was enduring during this decade and beyond.” The observation contextualizes the books that follow, but it’s that almost throwaway detail about King calling pain “the little green God of agony” that proves more telling; it’s representative of Vincent’s intimate knowledge of his subject’s enormous body of work, and also exemplifies the lightness with which he wears that learning…Vincent consistently displays that same knack for expertly tucked-away nuggets amidst a more conventional narrative paved on book publications and career milestones. Vincent writes about King in a direct and simple style that allows King, often quoted verbatim, to rise to the fore. The volume…transcends the simple marketing tool or hagiographic indulgence it might have been by combining studious knowledge with accessibility and insight…“The way I’m built is to try and give people pleasure,” King says at the end of our companionable journey, and that’s a book from which Vincent has, with this informative and entertaining celebration, taken more than a page.

from The Year in Review 2022

Irrepressibly enthusiastic Festschrifts rather than formal biographies, but no less impressive for their celebratory and retro­spective characters, Phil & Sarah Stokes’ Clive Barker’s Dark Worlds and Bev Vin­cent’s The Stephen King Ultimate Com­panion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences are things of dark beauty. Don’t be deceived by the pro­fuse artwork and numerous photographs. These tomes…shine with acumen on their subject’s creative processes and offer substantive observations on the fruits of these prolific creator’s labors. If the lives of the imaginatively fecund Barker and King were films, these books would be the literary equivalents of commentary tracks comprising an essen­tial, rather than a special, feature. 

Paul Simpson at Sci-Fi Bulletin

The TL:DR version of this review is simple: If you’re a fan of Stephen King’s work – whether you come to it via his fiction, the TV series or films based on his stories, or his various pieces of non-fiction writing – you need this book. Even for those of us who have researched and published our own guides to King over the years, there’s a plethora of information here that supplements what was previously available – and because it’s so well illustrated, you get to experience things in a way that hasn’t previously been possible.

Vincent provides a chronological account, with plenty of sidebars that pick up on elements that deserve further expansion that cross the decades – King as innovator (The Green Mile / Riding the Bullet / The Plant); King the movie star; King the sports fan and sportswriter – which make this far more than simply a dive into the genesis of the fiction. Illustrations range from the familiar to the outré, with script pages, call sheets, old maps of Derry, pages from copyedited manuscripts, a photo of him looking uncannily like his son Joe, all vying for space.

Kudos to Kim Winscher and all those involved with the design of the book – it has the feel of a large scrapbook yet at no point do any spreads feel overly cluttered (and even my major bugbear – white text on a black background – is presented clearly). It’s a hefty tome but not one with a hefty price tag for what you get – £21 RRP in the UK, $30 States-side.

Verdict: Celebrate Mr King’s 75th birthday with this analysis that more than lives up to the subtitle’s promise. 10/10

Hans-Åke Lilja at Lilja’s Library

Bev Vincent is one of the few people that I go to when I have a question about Stephen King. I have been doing that for the last 20+ years and still there has never been a question he hasn’t been able to answer for me. He’s written books about King and his stories. He’s written reviews and news columns about him and is active on social media. He’s a huge source of knowledge when it comes to Stephen King. Now, in time for King’s 75th birthday, he’s released a book with the exciting (but long) title The Stephen King Ultimate Companion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences.
In the book Vincent goes through every King book. Some very thorough and others a bit lighter but they are all there up to the recently released Fairy Tale. Mixed in with all these books are also tidbits on other interesting King things. Things like King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Rock Bottom Remainders, King’s accident and his fictional cities Derry and Castle Rock, just to name a few.
This is a great reference book that the casual reader of King’s books will learn a lot from and in which, even we King nerds that read everything he has written still find new things. The book itself is very nice looking and a joy to read and Vincent has gotten access to a lot of unseen photos from King’s private archives that are interesting to see here for the first time. It’s a great summary of King’s life and 48-year long career. Easy to digest but still full of information and photos, known and unknown.
I really enjoyed this book and I’m sure I’m not the only one who will use it for references in the future and well as just look through it from time to time for the pure joy of it.

Paula Hammond – FilmJuice

Stephen King has been thrilling readers and cinema-goers with his New England brand of chills and thrills since Carrie was published in 1973. The rest, as they say, is history.

This year marks King’s 75th birthday and Bev Vincent’s latest book, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences takes fans on an in-depth look at exactly what it is that makes the King of Horror tick.

Vincent previously wrote the Bram Stoker Award–nominated companion to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series (The Road to the Dark Tower) and the 2010 Edgar Award nominee, The Stephen King Illustrated Companion. So fans can be reassured that they’re in safe hands. Vincent knows his material and delivers the sort of depth and detail that many ‘behind the scenes’ books promise, but rarely deliver. The tone is conversational, but never chatty, fun, but never frivolous. Extensive notes reward the dedicated aficionado with plenty of extra goodies, while never overwhelming the casual reader.

Stephen King features 240 pages of archival photos and documents from King’s personal collection alongside the stories of how his novels, novellas, short stories, and adaptations came to be. Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and discover how the themes of his writing reflect the changing times and events within his life.

It might sound like a tall tale that Stephen King once met a bartender named Grady in an empty hotel in Colorado, or that the celebrated author helped his young daughter bury her cat in a nearby “pets cemetery” after it was killed on a busy roadway. But King’s magic comes from his ability to draw on personal experience and mundane life events and then twist them into something horrific.

Stephen King’s work has been turned into TV miniseries and blockbuster movies, like The Shining and It, but it’s the history of the writer’s struggles and triumphs, his lesser-known stories and collaborations that thrill, and Vincent uncovers these and much much more. Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences is a triumph. The perfect addition to any Stephen King fan’s collection.

Don Sauer at PopCultureGuy

The timing of the release of the new book, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences (Epic Ink), is not random. Indeed, Halloween is just weeks away and what better way to celebrate the holiday than with Stephen King? However, author Bev Vincent does not spin a horror story, but rather focuses on the “Master of Horror” himself and delves into Stephen King’s work, life and influences. Much of this 200 plus page effort discusses King’s prolific library of best selling novels, which include mystery, crime, and thrillers, as well as horror. For instance, one of King’s most recent novels, Billy Summers, is a crime novel with a supernatural overtone or two. In fact, if King decides to pen a sequel, that book could easily become a horror effort. Another recent release, Later, can also be considered a crime novel/thriller and also includes a supernatural element. 
Stephen King’s long and successful career began nearly a half century ago with the breakout novel Carrie in 1974 and continues this month with the release of his latest work, Fairy Tale, and both novels are mentioned throughout this book. King’s early life is also examined along with his time in school where he would sell his stories to classmates, although when the school officials found out, they forced King to refund their money. Even as a youngster, Stephen King knew he had a “secret sauce” that would pay many dividends once his career took off, but he had to wait a bit for everything to fall into place. Of course, King has not necessarily led a charmed life. Indeed, his father left when he was a toddler and never returned. King also spent years battling addiction to drugs and alcohol, and in 1999, he was struck by a minivan and nearly died. Despite all of those unfortunate events, Stephen King continues to soldier on and is an inspiration. 
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences boasts rare photographs, brilliant illustrations, and even includes some of his writings. In addition to exploring each novel, there are many interludes that focus on King’s interconnected universe, his musical career, the town of Castle Rock, Maine, the countless adaptations of his work, and influences, such as H.P. Lovecraft. Stephen King’s family is also discussed and includes photographs of wife Tabitha, and his children. Overall, Bev Vincent provides a complete portrait of one of the most prolific and successful authors of the past fifty years in Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences. This hardcover effort is an entertaining read from start to finish and will likely serve to get readers into the Halloween spirit while educating them on all things Stephen King. 

Joshua Kahn at Derry Public Radio

Less than a dozen pages in and I knew this was everything I had hoped for. Bev Vincent has found a way to celebrate King’s complete body of work in a way that feels both academic and casual (including talk about ‘Holly’ and ‘Fairy Tale’). A small but extremely valuable detail Vincent provides when discussing each book is the year of publication before setting the scene for how this work came to be. At a glance you’re reminded of the years between the birth of an idea and the time it became your favorite book.

That is only where my praise for this book begins…What “Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences” provides that makes this a perfect read as a fan is the soft hand of spoilers! There are many books you cannot discuss in depth without entering the unforgiving waters of ‘Spoilers’. Vincent is so careful with his words in regards to these moments that it wasn’t until reading about a book I’ve never read (Lisey’s Story), that I noticed the care that was being taken. If anything, it’s encouraged me to read these unread titles sooner so I can read these sections of Bev Vincent’s book again.

Beyond the works, as the title implies, we’re given a look into King’s life off the page. The balance of Vincent’s own writing and the selections quoted from the multitude of King’s interviews over his career leaves you feeling as though you’ve just sat down and had the conversation with King himself. Reflections on his desire to be an innovator, the infamous accident that nearly took his life, and battles with addiction are all laid bare for the reader. While these personal stories are ones some fans may already know, it feels so much more personal when Vincent shows you the roadmap of how these moments impacted his works.

If you have yet to pre-order “Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences” by Bev Vincent, do yourself a favor and do it now.

Andy Hageman at Horror Obsessive

The quick take is: Vincent’s book holds strong appeal for King’s “Constant Reader” fans, folks entirely new to King, and everyone in between. The author selects and synchronizes the insights, anecdotes, and details in this study with a blend of love for the topic and perspective of rigorous research and analysis. What’s more, the images of King and various documents, from draft pages to correspondences with editors and others, complement what’s written with a lively depth that pops off the pages. Frankly, it’s a beautiful book, designed with character and creepiness that enhance the experience without becoming a gimmick or nuisance to reading. When I received my review copy, the very first thing I did was flip page to page, giddy for what photos and layouts were coming up next.

…Vincent dips at times into King’s family life in connection with the writings. In these sections, Vincent draws connections between lived experience and the plots, characters, and motifs that emerged in the fiction. What makes this approach inviting is how Vincent often underwrites his assertions with direct quotes from King or others. It’s an approach to biographical criticism that’s grounded in primary source evidence rather than Vincent’s personal and subjective speculations. This approach sets the book apart from a lot of fan-expert writings that tend to grandstand their writers’ personal theories. Vincent masterfully crafts these sections without any sense of his own ego involved.

Kev Quigley at Goodreads

This new book by Bev Vincent is the sort of book I would have wanted to read when I was 14 years old. I had gotten into King In a big way, and reading books by George Beahm, Stephen Spignesi, Michael Collings, and Douglas Winter helped to fuel my interest in the writer and the man behind these books I liked so much.

This book falls into that category, halfway between an appreciation and a primer for the work of King. It’s not fan nonsense, which is always a worry when you pick up a book about a writer is popular as Stephen King. It also doesn’t go down that literary rabbit hole where everything has to be rationalized in order to justify an interest in a pop writer. Vincent strikes and excellent balance, serving both a new reader, and somebody who has spent 3/4 of their life steeped in the man’s fiction and lore.

Also, I’m a sucker for any book that looks at the newer work with an unjaundiced eye. I’ve been around long enough to have heard “Stephen king was good until…” for most of my reading life. I love Vincent’s look at King work from the beginning all the way up to present day, treating each novel and collection as an individual work, even as he takes on decade chunks as natural summations.

I wish I could give this book to myself at 14, when I was reading those Stephen King quiz books, and the Stephen King Companion for the first time. I might’ve helped me get better than a C- on that first essay on King I wrote. Or maybe it would just make me want to read more. And that, I think, is why book like this exists in the first place.

BeingFictional

Holy smokes, what an awesome book…This book is not only an overview of his work, but it also offers some insight into who he is as a person. It’s a must read for any fan. It’s full of photos, handwritten pages of manuscripts, letters, and various other media. I loved the discussion of each book, but what I really found interesting were the side notes about King’s philanthropy, his love of the Red Sox, his near-fatal accident, and the like. The sidebars provided a lot of information I was unaware of. This book is really a beautiful work, I’m excited to see it in person.

Psychobabble review (Mike Segretto)

It’s a full-color, illustrated hardcover that takes a close but wholly non-academic look at his output. Each one of King’s books gets between a paragraph and several pages of attention as Vincent provides a good deal of background information, a bit of a synopsis, and a few words about the reception and legacy that greeted each publication. 

I was impressed that Vincent kept the focus almost entirely on the books themselves since, with a career like King’s, it would be easy to keep drifting into the cinema. But aside from very brief check lists of all the films King’s stories inspired, which appear at the end of each decade-centric chapter, and the generous selection of film stills that illustrate the entries, the printed page is king. 

Anthony Northrup (Facebook)

Bev Vincent’s new book is unique in the fact that he has brought us a piece of work that is not only visually captivating, but within the pages it is very informative, and yes, fun to read. This book will appeal to not only longtime fans of King’s works, but those who are new as well. Bev has broken Stephen King’s life into chapters, wherein each represents a decade in King’s life. We begin with Stephen King’s early life as a boy, his college years, his struggles to become a best selling author, etc. You’ll find yourself relating to King as though you are cheering him on. The book continues on through the decades with Bev breaking down each of King’s books, short stories, life events, even backstories of everything we know, or have wanted to know, that surrounds this great author.

Bev Vincent takes us on an amazing journey throughout nearly every aspect that surrounds the life of Stephen King. We even get a glimpse of some of the behind-the-scenes, adaptations, props, letters, and more. I was impressed with how current Bev Vincent is with his information in this book…I was particularly happy to read in this book about King’s latest novel, Fairy Tale, which was released on September 6, 2022.

I enjoyed so many things about this book. It is a solid bound hardback, with an exquisite cover, is heavy, as it’s packed full with information, beautiful and colorful rare photos, and all the behind-the-scenes stories. I enjoyed that there were facts, so many of them, even some that I didn’t know. The book ends with a pleasant afterthought called, Conclusion: The Test of Time. I won’t say anything further regarding the afterthought, as it truly is a part of this book that is a must read, for yourself.

The “Constant Reader” will find this book a treasure trove full of knowledge about their favorite author, Stephen King. It’s a wonderful journey as seen through the eyes of an author who has made his mark in the Stephen King Universe for decades…Mr. Bev Vincent!

— the !n(tro)verted yogi – Bernie Gourley. Traveling Poet-Philosopher

This book offers one-stop shopping for anyone who wants to know about the life and works of one of the most popular and prolific genre fiction writers ever, Stephen King. The book is built around decade-by-decade examination of the books that King published as well as the adaptations that those books spawned (film, tv, comic book, theater, etc.) It’s arranged in an encyclopedic fashion (though chronologically) with entries on all of King’s titles, and has many textboxes about niche subjects including: King’s side hustles (e.g. owning radio stations, playing in a rock bank, etc.,) major events in King’s life, fictional places and characters that grew lives of their own, adaptations other than film and tv [film & tv adaptations are presented in the body of the text,] and various other quirky King-related topics.

The book is illustrated with a large collection of photos of King from various time periods and engaged in various activities.

Many fascinating insights can be discovered throughout the book. I learned, for example, that the Richard Bachman alias resulted from King’s prolific nature (and because BTO was playing at the time.) Publishers thought that readers would only buy one or two titles from a given author per year, but King had a back log of unpublished material – so he started publishing books under the Bachman persona. King was ever experimenting with various approaches to publishing and that makes the book potentially interesting for those with a curiosity about publishing innovations. The book is forthright about King’s alcohol and drug addictions and the influence they had on his work.

Oddly, I’m not the target audience for this book. I’ve only read a couple of King’s books (and one of those was “On Writing,” his nonfiction guide to writing.) That said, I found the book quite interesting.

Nenia (Readasaurus Reviews)

I’m often skeptical about coffee table-style niche encyclopedias like this, because they’re often only accessible to the super-fans of whatever they’re about, and even though I love Stephen King and he was, at one point, my favorite author, I would no longer call myself a super-fan of his work. I think the last thing of his that I actually read was REVIVAL and I didn’t like it.

But you can color me wrong for this book because I actually loved it so much. I actually think this would be a great companion to read with Stephen King’s memoir-slash-writing guide, ON WRITING, because it has pictures of a lot of the things he talked about. This book is part biography, part extended bibliography/CV, and part fan trivia. For example, I didn’t know that early editions of MISERY had a fake romance stepback inside picturing Paul Sheldon’s Misery cover! And better yet, THIS BOOK INCLUDES A PICTURE. AND STEPHEN KING WAS THE MALE COVER MODEL.

The whole book was full of fun little facts like that, including his inspirations, insights into his relationship with his wife and sons (I honestly LOVE how Tabitha is Mr. King’s “Ideal Reader.” Every time he talks about her, you can tell how much he worships her), and what his life was like after the accident that caused him serious injury. I’ve read most of his early works and a lot of the ones into the ’90s, but everything from the aughts onward was a little new to me and there were several things he did that I hadn’t even heard of. After seeing the summary of LISEY’S STORY, I’m kind of interested in picking it up now.

Horror fans, King fans, and movie fans will probably get a lot out of this book. I’m happy to report that you don’t need to be a super-fan to get something out of this book. There’s literally something in here for everyone and I kind of like that. Bev Vincent knocked the ball out of the park.

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