There have been many books published about Stephen King and his works.
1981: Edward J. Zagorski: Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King 1984: Douglas E. Winter: Stephen King: The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre 1986: Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller: Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King 1988: Don Herron: Reign of Fear: The Fiction and Film of Stephen King (1982-1989) 1988: Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller: Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988) 1989: Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller: Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (1989) 1989: George Beahm: The Stephen King Companion 1989: Tyson Blue: The Unseen King 1990: Stephen Spignesi: The Stephen King Quiz Book 1991: Stephen Spignesi: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia (includes art by Steve Fiorilla, Jim McDermott and others) 1992: Tony Magistrale (Ed.): The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape 1992: Stephen Spignesi: The Second Stephen King Quiz Book 1998: Harold Bloom (Ed.): Stephen King (part of series Modern Critical Views) 1998: Stephen Spignesi: The Lost Work of Stephen King 2001: Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner: The Stephen King Universe; A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King 2001: Stephen Spignesi: The Essential Stephen King 2003: Rocky Wood, David Rawsthorne, Norma Blackburn: The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King First and Second Editions 2004: Third Edition The Complete Guide To The Works Of Stephen King 2004: Bev Vincent: The Road to the Dark TowerThe Road to the Dark Tower: Cemetery Dance Publications 2006: Rocky Wood, with David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn: Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublishedadvertising agency business advice news at kanrockpublishing.com 2007: Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks: The Stephen King Collector's GuideThe Stephen King Collector's Guide 2008: Justin Brooks: Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World’s Most Popular AuthorStephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author: Cemetery Dance Publications 2008: Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks: Stephen King: The Non-FictionStephen King: The Non-Fiction: Cemetery Dance Publications 2009: Bev Vincent: The Stephen King Illustrated Companion: The Life and Works of the Master of HorrorThe Stephen King Illustrated Companion: The Life and Works of the Master of Horror 2011: Andrew J. Rausch and Ronald Riley: The Stephen King Movie Quiz Book 2011: Andrew J. Rausch: The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen King 2011: Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks: Stephen King: A Literary Companion 2011: John Sears: "Stephen King's Gothic" 2025: Yernar Shambayev: "Stephen King Behind the Iron Curtain" (The Story of Stephen King's Books in the USSR and Russia, 1981–2025)
Material about King can also be found in his own partly autobiographical On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), as well as scattered throughout King's Danse Macabre (1981).
A critical analysis of King's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's The Modern Weird Tale (2001).
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