Review
"The sections in Chapter 1 and the preceding biography serve as an excellent, insightful account of ways in which King?s own experiences and early upbringing impacted upon his fiction...In summary, this companion text contains a comprehensive selection of articles chosen to elucidate key themes in King?s work, provide a background to his interest in horror fiction, and explore a diverse range of his fiction. It provides a useful guide to those seeking an introduction to King?s work, yet contains a sufficiently disparate selection of articles to interest a more scholarly reader, plus a bibliography of King?s own fiction and of secondary works."
--SFRA (June 2004) (UNKNOWN )
Product Description
This anthology collects representative critical essays, reviews, and commentary from the author himself about his body of work. King's life, his development as a writer, his literary influences, and important themes and motifs in his fiction are considered from a variety of perspectives, including feminist theory, sociological criticism, and the traditions of Gothic horror.








