Stephen King is a
contemporary author of horror fiction that includes science fiction
and fantasy genre, whose books have sold more than 350 million copies
and he continues to write more. Many of those stories became
adaptations of films, television movies, and comic books. To date, he
has written fifty novels that include early works written under a pen
name Richard
Bachman (seven books) and five non-fiction titles. He has
written 200 short stories that have been put together to make nine
collections. Most of his stories occur in his home state of Maine. He will go down in the history of American literature in the ranks of Poe and Lovecraft; along with the Gothic horror style of Anne Rice. He is well-known in the academic world of literature and has taught university classes and given lectures. His renown is international. I have a complete collection of his works that I passed on to his family; and despite his skewered look at the liberties of the Second Amendment, I admire him as a writer and intellect.
