Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. Told in the chatty, intelligent style of the course for which this was originally devised, this is a charming book replete with pertinent anecdote and observation.


A fascinating combination of autobiography and personal voyage through the books and films that have inspired this phenomenally successful author
Publishing News on On Writing

Absolutely fascinating
The Sunday Times on On Writing

Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat...Kings imagination is vast....It is part biography...told brilliantly by one of the great storytellers of our time
Guardian on On Writing