Stephen King

(1947- )

62. Stephen King (1947- )

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ALEGRE, Sara Martin. “Idolos del fantastico popular: el gotico cotidiano de Stephen King y la satira pseudohistorica de Terry Pratchett.” Lo Fantastico literatura y subversion: Quimera. Revista de literatura 218-219 (2002): 87-99. [Idols of the Popular Fantastic: The Wellmade Goth-ic of Stephen King and the Pseudo-Historical Satire of Ter-ry Pratchett].

ANDERSON, James. “Morality in the Horror Fiction of Stephen King.” Studies in Weird Fiction 22 (1998: 29-33.

ANDERSON, Linda. “‘OH DEAR JESUS, IT IS FE-MALE’: Monster as Mother/Mother as Monster in Stephen King’s It” (pp. 111-25). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, eds. Theresa Thompson and Kathleen Margaret Lant. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

BEAHM, George W. The Stephen King Companion. [GGII: 1109].

BEAHM, George W. Stephen King: America ’s Best Loved Bogeyman. Kansas City, MO : Andrews and McMeel, 1999.

BERNARD, Maxime M. “The Religious Significance of Names in the Horror Fiction of Stephen King.” [GGII: 1110]. 

BLEILER, Richard. “Stephen King.” In Supernatural Fiction Writers. [GGII: 1111]. 

BLOCH, Robert. “Monsters in Our Midst.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1112]. 

BLOOM, Harold. Stephen King. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1998.

BLUE, Tyson. The Unseen King. [GGII: 1113]. 

BOSKY, Bernadette. “Stephen King and Peter Straub: Fear and Friendship.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1114]. 

BOSKY, Bernadette. “The Mind’s a Monkey: Character and Psychology in Stephen King’s Recent Fiction.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1115]. 

BRANDENBERGER, Mary Ann. “Analysis of the Fear Factor in Stephen King’s ‘The Man Who Loved Flo-wers.’” NIEKAS 45: Essays on Dark Fantasy. Center Harbor, NH: Niekas Publications, 1998: 18-19, 32.

BREQUE, Jean-Daniel. “Stephen King: l’horreur moderne.” [GGII: 1116]. 

BROWN, Stephen P. “The Life and Death of Richard Bachman: Stephen King’s Doppelgänger.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1117]. 

BROWNE, Ray and Gary HOPPENSTAND. The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares. [GGII: 1118]. 

BRUHM, Steven. “On Stephen King’s Phallus: Or, The Postmodern Gothic.” Narrative 4:1 (1996): 55-73. Reprinted (pp. 75-96) In The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, eds. R.K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University Iowa Press, 1998.

BRUHM, Steven. “Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic” (pp. 269-80). In A Companion to the Gothic, ed. David Punter. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

BURNS, Gail E. and Melinda KANNER. “Women, Danger, and Death: The Perversion of the Female Principle in Stephen King’s Fiction” (pp. 158-72). In Sexual Politics and Popular Culture, ed. Diane Raymond. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.

CAMPBELL, Ramsey. “Welcome to Room 217.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 11-19]. 

CASEBEER, Edwin F. “Stephen King’s Canon: The Art of Balance” (pp. 42-54). In A Dark Night’s Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction, eds. Tony Magistrale, Michael A. Morrison. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

CASSUTO, Leonard. “Repulsive Attractions: ‘The Raft,’ Vagina Dentata, and the Slasher Formula” (pp. 61-78). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, eds. Theresa Thompson and Kathleen Margaret Lant. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

CHANDLER, Kelly. “Jumpstarting the Reader: Con-sidering the Instructional Implications of Adolescents’ Responses to Fiction by Stephen King.” Dissertation Abstracts International  59:5 (1998): 1492 (University of Maine).

CHEEVER, Leonard. “Apocalypse and the Popular Imagination: Stephen King’s The Stand.” [GGII: 1120]. 

COHEN, Alan. “The Stand: Science Fiction into Fan-tasy.” [GGII: 1121]. 

COHEN, Alan. “The Collapse of Family and Language in Stephen King’s The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1122]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. The Many Facets of Stephen King. [GGII: 1123]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. Stephen King and Richard Bachman. [GGII: 1124]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. The Stephen King Concordance. [GGII: 1125]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. The Annotated Guide to Stephen King. [GGII: 1126]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. The Films of Stephen King. [GGII: 1127]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. The Stephen King Phenomenon. [GGII: 1128]. 

COLLINGS, Michael R. and David ENGEBRETSON. The Shorter Works of Stephen King. [GGII: 1129]. 

CONNER, Jeff. Stephen King Goes to Hollywood: A Lavishly Illustrated Guide to All the Films Based on Stephen Kings’s Fiction. [GGII: 1130]. 

CRAWFORD, Gary W. “Stephen King’s American Gothic.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1131]. 

D’AMMASSA, Don. “Three by Bachman.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1132]. 

DAVIS, Jonathan P. Stephen King’s America. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994.

DE CUIR, Andre L. “The Power of the Feminine and the Gendered Construction of Horror in Stephen King’s ‘The Reach’” (pp. 79-89). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, eds. Theresa Thompson and Kathleen Margaret Lant. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

DICKERSON, Mary Jane. “‘The Masked Author Strikes Again’: Writing and Dying in The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1133]. 

EGAN, James. “Antidetection: Gothic and Detective Conventions in the Fiction of Stephen King.” [GGII: 1134]. 

EGAN, James. “Apocalypticism in the Fiction of Stephen King.” [GGII: 1135]. 

EGAN, James. “‘A Single Powerful Spectacle’: Stephen King’s Gothic Melodrama.” [GGII: 1136].

EGAN, James. “The Dark Tower: Stephen King’s Gothic Western.” In The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares. [GGII: 1137]. 

EGAN, James. “Technohorror: The Dystopian Vision of Stephen King.” [GGII: 1138]. 

EGAN, James. “Sacral Parody in the Fiction of Stephen King.” [GGII: 1139]. 

ELLER, Jackie L. “Wendy Torrance, One of King’s Women; A Typology of King’s Female Characters.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1140]. 

FERGUSON, Mary. “‘Strawberry Spring’: Stephen King’s Gothic Universe.” [GGII: 1141]. 

FERREIRA, Patricia. “Jack’s Nightmare at the Overlook: The American Dream Inverted.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1142]. 

FIEDLER, Leslie. “Fantasy as Commodity and Myth.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1143]. 

GALLAGHER, Bernard J. “Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do: Stephen King, Christopher Lasch, and Psychic Fragmentation.” [GGII: 1144]. 

GARDNER, Karin Elizabeth. “Domestic Violence  Against Women within the Horror Literature of Stephen King” Master’s Thesis, California State University , Dominguez Hills.

GIBBS, Kenneth. “Stephen King and the Tradition of American Gothic.” [GGII: 1145]. 

GRANT, Charles L. “The Gray Arena.” In Fear Itself: Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1146]. 

HALA, James. “Kubrick’s The Shining: The Specters and the Critics.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1147]. 

HANSON, Clare. “Stephen King: Powers of Horror.” In American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King. [GGII: 1148]. 

HATLEN, Burton. “Good and Evil in Stephen King’s The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1149]. 

HELDRETH, Leonard G. “The Ultimate Horror: The Dead Child in Stephen King’s Stories and Novels.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1150]. 

HELDRETH, Leonard G. “Viewing the Body: King’s Portrait of the Artist as Survivor.” In The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares. [GGII: 1151]. 

HELDRETH, Leonard G. “Rising Like Old Corpses: Stephen King and the Horrors of Time-Past.” [GGII: 1152]. 

HERRON, Don. “The Biggest Horror Fan of Them All.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1153]. 

HERRON, Don. “The Good, the Bad, and the Academic.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 11-54].

HERRON, Don. Reign of Fear: Fiction and Film of Stephen King. [GGII: 1155]. 

HICKS, James E. “Stephen King’s Creation of Horror in ‘Salem’s Lot’: A Prolegomenon Towards a New Hermeneutic of the Gothic Novel.” In Consumable Goods: Papers from the North East Popular Culture Association Meeting. [GGII: 1156]. 

HOHNE, Karen A. “In Words Not Their Own: Dangerous Women in Stephen King” (pp. 327-45). In Misogyny in Literature, ed. Katherine Anne Ackley. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.

HOLLAND-TOLL, Linda J. “Bakhtin’s Carnival Reversed: King’s The Shining as Dark Carnival.” Journal of Popular Culture 33 (1999): 131-46.

HORSTLING, Jessie. Stephen King at the Movies. [GGII: 1157]. 

HYLES, Vernon. “The Dark Side of Childhood: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins and The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1158]. 

INDICK, Ben P. “King and the Literary Tradition of Horror and the Supernatural.” In Fear Itself: Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1159] 

INDICK, Ben P. Stephen King as an Epic Writer.” In Discovering Modern Horror. [GGII: 1160]. 

INDICK, Ben P. “What Makes Him So Scary?” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1161]. 

INDICK, Ben P. “King as a Writer for Children.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1162]. 

INGEBRETSEN, Edward J. “Cotton Mather and Stephen King: Writing/Righting the Body Politic” (pp. 11-30). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, eds. Theresa Thompson and Kathleen Margaret Lant. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

KARRER, Wolfgang. “Horror als buch-video: Stephen Kings Erfzahlwelten” (pp. 141-59). In Unterhaltungsliteratur der achtziger und neunziger Jahre, eds. Dieter Petzold and Eberhard Spath. Erlangen, Germany: Universitatsbund Erlangen-Nurnberg, 1998. [Horror as Video-Book: Stephen King’s Narrative Worlds].

KENT, Brian. “Canaries in a Gilded Cage: Mental and Marital Decline in McTeague and The Shining.” [GGII: 1163]. 

KETCHUM, Marty, Daniel J.H. LEVACK, Jeff LEVIN. “Stephen King: A Bibliography.” In Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1164]. 

KLAVAN, Andrew. “The Pleasure of the Subtext: Stephen King’s Id-Life Crisis.” [GGII: 1165]. 

LANT, Kathleen Margaret. “The Rape of Constant Reader: Stephen King’s Construction of the Female Reader and Violation of the Female Body in Misery.” Journal of Popular Culture 30 (1997): 89-114.

LANT, Kathleen M. “Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women” (pp. 3-8). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, ed. Theresa Thompson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

LARSON, Randall D. “Cycle of the Werewolf and the Moral Tradition of Horror.” [GGII: 1166]. 

LEIBER, Fritz. “Horror Hits a High.” In Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1167]. 

MADDEN, Edward. “Cars Are Girls: Sexual Power and Sexual Panic in Stephen King’s Christine” (pp. 143-58). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, ed. Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

MADIGAN, Mark J. “‘Orders from the House’: Kubrick’s The Shining and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1168]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Stephen King’s Viet Nam Allegory: An Interpretation of ‘The Children of the Corn.’” [GGII: 1169]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Crumbling Castles of Sand: The Social Landscape of Stephen King’s Gothic Vision.” [GGII: 1170]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Inherited Haunts: Stephen King’s Terrible Children.” [GGII: 1171]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. Landscape of Fear: Stephen King’s American Gothic. [GGII: 1172]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Hawthorne’s Woods Revisited: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.” [GGII: 1173]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. The Moral Voyages of Stephen King. [GGII: 1174]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1175]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Shakespeare in 58 Chapters: The Shining as Classical Tragedy.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1176]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. Stephen King: The Second Decade, Danse Macabre to the Dark Half. [GGII: 1177]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King’s Horrorscape. [GGII: 1178].

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Art Versus Madness in Stephen King’s Misery.” In The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. [GGII: 1179]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “Stephen King” (pp. 212-24). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

MCDOWELL, Michael. “The Unexpected and the Inevitable.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1180]. 

MESCHLOW, Sanford Z., Darrell SCHWEITZER, Michael R. COLLINGS, Ben INDICK. “Synopses of King’s Fiction.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 11-81]. 

MILLER, Chuck. “Stephen King Goes to the Mov-ies.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1182]. 

MONTELEONE, Thomas F. “King’s Characters: The Main(e) Heat.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1183]. 

MORIN, Hugues, Alain BERGERON, Daniel CONRAD, Guy SIROIS, Laurine SPEHNER, and Norbert SPEHNER. Stephen King: Trente Ans de Terreur. Beauport, Quebec : Éditions Alire, 1997. [Stephen King: Thirty Years of Terror].

MÜLLER, Burkhardt. Stephen King: Das Wunder, das Böse, und der Tod. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1998. [Stephen King: The Wonder, the Evil, and the Death].

MURPHY, Patrick. “The Realities of Unreal Worlds: King’s The Dead Zone, Schmidt’s Kensho, Lem’s Solaris.” In Spectrum of the Fantastic. [GGII: 1184]. 

MUSTAZZA, Leonard. “The Red Death’s Sway: Setting and Character in Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ and King’s The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1185]. 

NASH, Jesse W. “Postmodern Gothic: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.” Journal of Popular Culture 30:4 (1997): 151-60.

NOLAN, William F. “The Good Fabric: Of Night Shifts and Skeleton Crews.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1186]. 

NOTKIN, Deborah L. “Stephen King: Horror and Humanity for Our Time.” In Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1187]. 

PHARR, Mary. “Partner’s in the Danse: Women in Stephen King’s Fiction” (pp. 19-32). In The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King’s Horrorscape, ed. Tony  Magistrale. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.

PHARR, Mary. “Vampiric Appetite in I Am Legend, Salem’s Lot, and The Hunger” (pp. 93-103). In The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature, ed. Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr. Bowling Green, OH : Popular Press, 1999.

PRICE, Robert M. “Stephen King and the Lovecraft Mythos.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1189]. 

PRICE, Robert M. “Fundamentalists in the Fiction of Stephen King.” [GGII: 1190]. 

PUNTER, David. “Problems of Recollection and Construction: Stephen King” (pp. 121-40). In Modern Gothic: A Reader, eds. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.

REESMAN, Jeanne Campbell. “Stephen King and the Tradition of American Naturalism in The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1191]. 

REINO, Joseph. Stephen King: The First Decade, Carrie to Pet Sematary. [GGII: 1192]. 

RUSSELL, Sharon A. Stephen King: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

RYAN, Alan. “The Marston House in Salem’s Lot.” In Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1193]. 

SANDERS, Joe. “Closure and Power in Salem’s Lot.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 10 (1999): 142-54.

SANDERS, Joe. “‘Monsters from the Id!’”. In Stephen King’s ‘The Monkey.’” Extrapolation 41 (2000): 257-65. 

SCHWEITZER, Darrell. Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1194]. 

SCHWEITZER, Darrell. Discovering Stephen King II. [GGII: 1195]. 

SENF, Carol A. “Stephen King: A Modern Interpretation of the Frankenstein Myth.” [GGII: 1196]. 

SENF, Carol A. “Donna Trenton, Stephen King’s Modern American Heroine.” In Heroines of Popular Culture. [GGII: 1197]. 

SENF, Carol A. “Gerald’s Game and Delores Claiborne: Stephen King and the Evolution of an Authentic Female Narrative Voice” (pp. 91-107). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, ed. Theresa Thompson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

SMITH, Greg. “The Literary Equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries?: Academics, Moralists, and the Stephen King Phenomenon.” Midwest Quarterly 5 (2002): 329-45.

SMITH, James F. “Kubrick’s or King’s––Whose Shining Is It?” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1198]. 

SOMTOW, S.P. “A Certain Slant of ‘I’: Stand by Stephen King.” [GGII: 1199]. 

SPIGNESI, Stephen J. The Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia. [GGII: 1200]. 

STANTON, Michael L. “Once Out of Nature: ‘The Topiary.’” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1201].

STRENGELL, Heidi. "'The Monster Never Dies': An Analysis of the Double in Stephen King's Oeuvre." Journal of American Popular Culture 2 (2003): no pagination. 

STRIEBER, Whitely. “Thanks to the Crypt Keeper: An Appreciation of Stephen King.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1202]. 

STUMP, Debra. “A Matter of Choice: King’s Cujo and Malamud’s The Natural.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1203]. 

STUMP, Debra. “Stephen King with a Twist: E.C. Influence.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1204]. 

SULLIVAN, Jack. “Two Ways to Write a Gothic: Little Angie and The Shining.” [GGI: 2236]. 

TERRELL, Carroll F. Stephen King: Man and Artist. [GGII: 1205]. 

THOENS, Karen. “It, A Sexual Fantasy” (pp. 127-40). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, ed. Theresa Thompson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

THOMPSON, Bill. “A Girl Named Carrie.” In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1206]. 

THOMPSON, Theresa. “Rituals of Male Violence: Unlocking the (Fe)male Self in Gerald’s Game and Dolores Claiborne” (pp. 47-58). In Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women, eds. Theresa Thompson and Kathleen Margaret Lant. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

THOMPSON, Theresa and Kathleen Margaret LANT, eds. Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

TRUFFIN, Sherry R. "'Screaming While School Was in Session': The Construction of Monstrosity in Stephen King's Schoolhouse Gothic." (pp. 236-48) in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

TYMN, Marshall B. “Stephen King: A Bibliography.” [GGII: 1207]. 

UNDERWOOD, Tim. “The Skull Beneath the Skin.”  In Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1208]. 

UNDERWOOD, Tim and Chuck MILLER. Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1209]. 

UNDERWOOD, Tim and Chuck MILLER. Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King. [GGII: 1210]. 

UNDERWOOD, Tim and Chuck MILLER. Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King. [GGII: 1211]. 

WARREN, Alan. “Has Success Spoiled Stephen King?” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1212]. 

WELLER, Greg. “The Redrum of Time: A Meditation on Francisco Goya’s ‘Saturn Devouring His Children’ and Stephen King’s The Shining.” In The Shining Reader. [GGII: 1214]. 

WESTFAHL, Gary. “KING, Stephen” (pp. 322-26). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

WILLIAMSON, Chet. “The Early Tales: Stephen King and Startling Mystery Stories.” In Discovering Stephen King. [GGII: 1215]. 

WILSON, William. “Riding the Crest of the Horror Craze.” [GGI: 2259]. 

WINTER, Douglas E. “The Night Journeys of Stephen King.” In Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1216].

WINTER, Douglas E. The Reader’s Guide to Stephen King. [GGII: 12-17]. 

WINTER, Douglas E. Stephen King: The Art of Darkness. [GGII: 12-18]. 

WOHLEBER, Curt. “The Man Who Could Scare Stephen King.” American Heritage 46:8 (1995): 82-90.

YARBRO, Chelsea Quinn. “Cinderella’s Revenge: Twists on Fairytale and Mythic Themes in the Work of Stephen King.” In Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. [GGII: 1219].