This companion provides a two-part introduction to best-selling author
Stephen King, whose enormous popularity over the years has gained him an
audience well beyond readers of horror fiction, the genre with which he
is most often associated. Part I considers the reception of King's work,
the film adaptations that they gave rise to, the fictional worlds in
which some of his novels are set, and the more useful approaches to
King's varied corpus. Part II consists of entries for each series,
novel, story, screenplay and even poem, including works never published
or produced, as well as characters and settings.