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"The House on Maple Street" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stephen King, published in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. The first volume of the anthology's audiobook includes the story, read by the author's wife, Tabitha King .
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". [2] He has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy and mystery. [3]
Castle Rock (sometimes referred to as the Rock) is a fictional town appearing in Stephen King's fictional Maine topography, providing the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. Castle Rock first appeared in King's 1979 novel The Dead Zone and has since been referred to or used as the primary setting in many other works ...
Black House: A Novel. Black House is King’s first direct sequel, continuing the story he and Peter Straub began in The Talisman. Jack Sawyer the boy-hero has grown up to become a police-officer ...
King sought to "capture that world of dirt roads, abandoned houses, and general stores full of old men, old baked bean supper posters, and old flypaper" and to depict "...a house that would grow every time some old campaigner in the town kicked the bucket [...] a kind of rambling New England memorial that was half-crypt, half living organism." [1]
Apr. 24—Stephen King's stories have been set in a wide variety of places, like Oklahoma in "The Outsider," Louisiana in "The Green Mile" and New Hampshire in "The Talisman." But the vast ...
Misery is an American psychological horror novel written by Stephen King and first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. [1] The novel's narrative is based on the relationship of its two main characters – the romance novelist Paul Sheldon and his deranged self-proclaimed number one fan Annie Wilkes.
Long before “True Blood” or “Twilight” brought vampires to small-town America, horror writer Stephen King imagined the creatures invading his backyard in rural Maine (technically, a ...