AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES—INCLUDING BOOK-BY-BOOK ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT INTO STEPHEN KING'S CREATIVE PROCESS. In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," as well as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone. With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, The Road to the Dark Tower examines the epic journey of the author to complete a story that threatened to overwhelm him. In this indispensable companion, Bev Vincent presents a book-by-book analysis of each volume in the series, tracing the Dark Tower's connections to King's other novels including The Stand, Insomnia, and Hearts in Atlantis, and offering insights from the author about the creative process involved in crafting his lifelong work-a work that has consumed not only Stephen King, but his legion of devoted readers. This is essential reading for any Dark Tower-or Stephen King-fan.

The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

Biographies & Memoirs

Vincent, Bev

Arts & Literature

Penguin Publishing Group

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING'S BESTSELLING DARK TOWER SERIES. “A valuable tool for exploring the series. Both newcomers and frequent visitors to Mid-World will be informed and delighted.”—Stephen King The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and his lifelong quest to reach the tower and save humanity across infinite parallel worlds is one that has consumed Stephen King throughout his career as characters and concepts crossed back and forth between the series and the rest of his fictional universe. The Dark Tower Companion is the ultimate compendium to King’s evolving magnum opus, presenting the mythology, history, and geography of this epic fantasy that has captivated generations of readers. Featuring interviews with Stephen King, Ron Howard, Dark Tower expert Robin Furth and others, Bev Vincent reveals The Dark Tower’s influential literary origins, examines its connections to the vast majority of King’s other novels, explores the expanded universe, catalogs the major characters, locations and concepts, and includes a travel guide to the story’s real-world locations, giving fans who have followed Roland’s journey—or those who are discovering it for the first time—a fascinating overview of the series and an inside look at the creative process of one of the world’s most popular authors.

The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy

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Eighteen stories of found footage horror. Featuring stories by: Bev Vincent, Ali Seay, Holly Rae Garcia, Clay McLeod Chapman, Nick Kolakowski, Ally Wilkes, Alan Baxter, Tim McGregor, Jeremy Hepler, Angela Sylvaine, Josh Rountree, Donna Lynch, Kurt Fawver, Robert Levy, Joe Butler, Fred Fischer, Georgia Cook, and Aristo Couvaras. An anthology edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias.

FOUND: An anthology of found footage horror stories

Literature & Fiction

Baxter, Alan

KOLAKOWSKI, NICK

McGregor, Tim

Cull, Andrew

McLeod Chapman, Clay

Hepler, Jeremy

Wilkes, Ally

Cook, Georgia

Genre Fiction

Vermillion To One

Take an intimate tour through the life and works of Stephen King, made vivid with rare photos and ephemera from King’s personal collection.\nEven if you are a die-hard fan, you will find something new in this beautifully packaged Stephen King reference that you will return to again and again. Timed to celebrate Stephen King’s 75th birthday on September 21, 2022, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences reveals the inspiration behind the prolific author’s brilliant works of horror through a combination of photos and documents from King’s archives and an engaging account of the stories behind how his novels, novellas, short stories, and adaptations came to be.\nIt 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 sematary” after it was killed on a busy roadway. In this book, discover how King drew on these and more real personal experiences and mundane life events, then employed his extraordinary imagination to twist them into something horrific.\nFrom impoverished university student to struggling schoolteacher to one of the best-selling—and most recognizable—authors of all time, this engrossing book reveals the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and how the themes of his writing reflect the changing times and events within his life.\nAn expansion of Stephen King expert Bev Vincent’s The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, this fully revised, redesigned, and updated book includes: 
A review of King’s complete body of work, including Fairy Tale, published in September 2022. A wealth of rare memorabilia from King’s own collection, including personal and professional correspondences, handwritten manuscript pages, book covers, movie stills, and a never-before-seen excerpts from one of his poems. Interludes on specific topics such as real-life settings that inspired King’s writing, the editor who discovered him, his life as a Boston Red Sox fan, and the many awards and honors he has received. Insightful quotes from King from interviews over the decades. 
Celebrate the beloved King of Horror with this informational and entertaining look inside King’s most iconic titles and the culture they have created.

The Stephen King Ultimate Companion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences

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A thrilling visual companion curated for young adults voraciously reading their way through Stephen King's colossal corpus of creepy books.

Stephen King: His Life, Work, and Influences (Young Readers' Edition)

Children's Books

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WHO DIED IN HERE? is an outstanding collection of mystery short stories of crimes and bathrooms, ranging from zany to deadly serious. Selected by Pat Dennis, author of Hotdish To Die For and Murder by Chance, the 25 storytellers' writing credits include prestigious magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Television series such as Nash Bridges and Designing Women. Contributing authors are: R.T. Lawton, Pat Dennis, Kris Neri, Thomas Bray, BevVincent, Terry Burlison, Michael Giorgio, Nick Andreychuk, MikeBefeler, Peggy Jaegly, Stephen D. Rogers, Michael Learmond, Kevin Carollo, David Dumitru, R.J. Mills, Beverle Graves Myers,Jeremy Yoder, James C. Wardlaw, Donna Sundblad, Sandra Levy Ceren,Lori G. Armstrong, A.S. Berman, Lance Zarimba, Joan Hall Hovey, DeanJohnson

Who Died In Here?: 25 Mystery Stories Of Crimes & Bathrooms

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Befeler, Mike

Dennis, Pat

Zarimba, Lance

Armstrong, Lori G.

Lawton, R.T.

Neri, Kris

Bray, Thomas

Burlison, Terry

Giorgio, Michael

Andreychuk, Nick

Jaegly, Peggy

Rogers, Stephen D.

Learmond, Michael

Carollo, Kevin

Dumitru, David

Mills, R.J.

Mystery

Penury Pr

TRAPPED WITHIN THE TWILIGHT... Call it what you like: dusk, twilight, sunset. It's that magical moment between daylight and darkness when anything is possible - the evening ahead promises untold enchantment... or nameless dread. Within are 16 tales of the oncoming blackness, including more than the usual cast of characters. There are shapeshifters and gravediggers, but also supernatural private detectives - and perhaps most terrifying of all - beautiful creatures that prey on... horror writers. Murder, death and things worse than death are all waiting for you When The Night Comes Down.

When The Night Comes Down

Kenyon, Nate

Weinberg, Robert E.

D'Lacey, Joseph

Dark Arts Books

Review\n"An expertly compiled collection of tales that entertain and scare. New stories by Stephen King and Joe Hill, the almost universal fear of flying trope, classic stories....this book really does sell itself. And sells it very well as the first printing is already sold out and it hasn't shipped yet...this is a great intro to horror collection. The mixture of classic authors with new masters and a common trope that is scary but not necessarily gory or based on a supernatural monster, will lure in readers, many of whom might not consider themselves horror readers." 
--Booklist\n"This entertaining anthology of horror, mystery, and literary tales about aircraft (most reprinted) will have the reader thinking twice about flying... Standouts include the two original stories: King's 'The Turbulence Expert, ' a perfectly tense tale about a mysterious group that prevents aircraft crashes though unusual means, and Joe Hill's 'You Are Released, ' made terrifying by its proximity to reality: it follows the crew and passengers on a 777 en route to Boston, who learn that North Korea has just nuked Guam and other countries are retaliating. This is a strong anthology full of satisfying tales." 
--Publishers Weekly\n#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and one poem) that tap into one of King's greatest fears--air travel--featuring brand-new stories by King and Joe Hill, "an expertly compiled collection of tales that entertain and scare" (Booklist). 
Stephen King hates to fly, and he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share their fear of flying with you. 
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph, and sealed up in a metal tube (like--gulp!--a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. Here are all the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger. 
Featuring brand-new "standouts" (Publishers Weekly) by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents...Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." 
Each story is introduced by Stephen King and all will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.

Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

KING,STEPHEN

United States

Thorndike Press Large Print

The Stephen King Illustrated Companion Manuscripts, Correspondence, Drawings, and Memorabilia

Metro_Books

Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill. 
Stephen King hates to fly. 
Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. 
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like - gulp! - a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger. 
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." 
Book a flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination. 
Table of Contents: 
Introduction by Stephen King 
Cargo by E. Michael Lewis 
The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson 
The Flying Machine by Ambrose Bierce 
Lucifer! by E.C. Tubb 
The Fifth Category by Tom Bissell 
Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons 
Diablitos by Cody Goodfellow 
Air Raid by John Varley 
You Are Released by Joe Hill 
Warbirds by David J. Schow 
The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury 
Zombies on a Plane by Bev Vincent 
They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald Dahl 
Murder in the Air by Peter Tremayne 
The Turbulence Expert by Stephen King 
Falling by James L. Dickey 
Afterword by Bev Vincent

Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent

BIERCE, AMBROSE

BISSELL, TOM

Tubb, E.C.

Goodfellow, Cody

Schow, David

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

Simmons,Dan

DAHL, ROALD

Hill, Joe.

Varley, John.

LEWIS, Michael

MATHESON, RICHARD

BRADBURY,RAY

Treemayne, Peter

Dickey, James L.

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