There have been many books published about Stephen King and his works.
- Date Title Author Publisher
1981 Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King Edward J. Zagorski: New American Library, Education Dept
1984 Stephen King: The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre Douglas E. Winter Signet Updated edition (December 2, 1986)
1986 Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Signet
1987 The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne Bowling Green State University Popular Press
1988 Reign of Fear: The Fiction and Film of Stephen King (1982–1989) Don Herron Pan
5/1/1988 Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller McGraw-Hill
1988 Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic Tony Magistrale Bowling Green State University Popular Press
1989 Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (1989) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Grand Central Publishing
4/1/1988 The Unseen King Tyson Blue Borgo Pr
1989 The Stephen King Companion George Beahm Andrews and McMeel
8/7/1990 The Stephen King Quiz Book Stephen Spignesi Signet
1991 The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia (includes art by Steve Fiorilla, Jim McDermott and others) Stephen Spignesi Contemporary Books;
6/1991 Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia Stephen J Spignesi Popular Culture Ink
3/27/1992 The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape Tony Magistrale (Ed.) Praeger
1992 The Second Stephen King Quiz Book Stephen Spignesi Signet
1994 Stephen King's America Jonathan P. Davis Bowling Green State University Popular Press
11/1/1997 Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge: Hundreds of Brainteasing Questions on Minute Details and Little-Known Facts about the World's Leading Horror Writer and His Work Robert W. Bly Kensington
1998 Stephen King (part of series Modern {literary} Critical Views) Harold Bloom (Ed.) Chelsea House
1998 The Lost Work of Stephen King: A Guide to Unpublished Manuscripts, Story Fragments, Alternative Versions and Oddities Stephen Spignesi Birch Lane Press
1998 Stephen King From A to Z An Encyclopedia of His Life and Work George Beahm Andrews McMeel Publishing
1999 Stephen King Country: The Illustrated Guide to the Sites and Sights That Insired the Modern Master of Horror George Beahm Running Press Publishers
2000 Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic: Lovecraft, Matheson, and King David A. Oakes Greenwood Press
2001 The Stephen King Universe; A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner Cemetery Dance
3/8/2001 The Modern Weird Tale S. T. Joshi McFarland
5/1/2001 The Essential Stephen King: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies, and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer Stephen Spignesi: New Page Books
2002 Revisiting Stephen King: A Critical Companion Sharon A. Russell Greenwood Press
2002 The Literary Equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries?: Academics, Moralists, and the Stephen King Phenomenon Smith, Greg The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4, Summer 2002
2002 Creepshows - The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide Stephen Jones Billboard Books
2003 The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King First and Second Editions 2004: Third Edition Rocky Wood, David Rawsthorne, Norma Blackburn Kanrock Partners
2004 "Diabolical Dreaming in Stephen King's ""The Man in the Black Suit""" Hansen, Tom The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, Spring 2004
12/2005 The Road to the Dark Tower Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
2005 The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book Brian Freeman & Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
5/30/2006 The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner St. Martin's Griffin;
3/2006 Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished Rocky Wood, with David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn Cemetery Dance
2007 The Stephen King Collector's Guide Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks Kanrock Partners
2008 Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author Justin Brooks Cemetery Dance
12/2008 Stephen King: A Biography Albert Rolls Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
4/2009 Stephen King: The Non-Fiction Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks Cemetery Dance
7/15/2009 Stephen King on the Big Screen Mark Browning Intellect, Limited
2009 The Stephen King Illustrated Companion: The Life and Works of the Master of Horror Bev Vincent Fall River Press
2009 Stephen King: A Biography Albert Rolls Greenwood Press
3/1/2010 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Robin Furth Cemetery Dance
8/3/2010 Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King Hans-Ake Lilja Cemetery Dance
2010 Stephen King: America's Storyteller Tony Magistrale Praeger
6/7/2011 Stephen King Is Richard Bachman Michael R Collings, Stephen King Overlook Connection
2011 The Stephen King Movie Quiz Book Andrew J. Rausch and Ronald Riley BearManor Media
5/27/2011 The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen King Andrew J. Rausch: : BearManor Media
4/11/2011 Stephen King: A Literary Companion Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks McFarland
8/15/2011 Stephen King's Gothic John Sears University of Wales Press
9/13/2013 The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book Brian James Freeman, Kevin Quigley, and Hans-Ake Lilja Cemetery Dance
9/13/2013 The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book: Revised & Updated 2nd Edition! Brian James Freeman & Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
2/1/2014 Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film Scott Von Doviak Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
10/1/2015 The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror George Beahm Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
12/28/2015 The Dark Tower Companion Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
2016 Stephen King and Philosophy Jacob M. Held (Ed.) Rowman & Littlefield
3/22/2016 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance (Revised & Updated!) Robin Furth Cemetery Dance
2017 The Dark Tower: The Art of the Film Daniel Wallace Scribner
2017 Reading Stephen King Brian James Freeman (Ed.) Cemetery Dance
Summer 2017 The Linguistics of Stephen King by James Arthur Anderson McFarland & Company, Inc.
9/1/2017 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Stephen King The Editors Of Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly
6/12/2018 America's Dark Theologian-The Religious Imagination Of Stephen King Douglas E. Cowan New York University Press
10/16/2018 Stephen King, American Master: A Creepy Corpus of Facts About Stephen King & His Work Stephen Spignesi Permuted Press
2019 Stephen King at the Movies Ian Natilan Palazzo Editions Ltd.
2019 The World of IT Alyse Wax Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
2/05/2019 Perspectives on Stephen King: Conversations with Authors, Experts and Collaborators Andrew J. Rausch McFarland & Company
2021 Stephen King And American History Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin Routledge
2021 Stephen King And American Politics Michael J. Blouin University of Wales Press
2022 Encountering Pennywise - Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's 'It' Whitney S. May (Ed.) University Press of Mississippi
Spring 2022 Bumpty-Bumpty-Bump!: The Stephen King Daily Reader (Third edition) Michael Roch
05/08/2022 Fun Is Fun and Done is Done: Stephen King Connections and Easter Eggs Michael Roch MicRo Readers
6/21/2022 Stephen King's Maine Haunts: A Guidebook to the Sites and Sights of Things King George Beahm Self Published
9/13/2022 The Stephen King Ultimate Companion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences Bev Vince Quatro Publishing Group USA Inc.
10/04/2022 Castle Rock Kitchen: Wicked Good Recipes From the World of Stephen King (A Cookbook) Theresa Carle-Sanders (Forward by Stephen King) Ten Speed Press
11/04/2022 The Ultimate Stephen King Quiz Book Dave Musson Independently Published
11/29/2023 Stephen King: Not Just Horror Hans-Ake Lilja BearManor Media
Material about King can also be found in his own partly autobiographical On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), ‘’Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing’’ (2000), ‘’Hearts in Suspension’’ (2016) 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).
