Description: Stephen King is the most successful author in the world today. His stories fascinate and frighten readers by vividly reminding them that there is much more beneath the surface of things than we like to acknowledge. Wiater, Golden, and Wagner show that each work by King is a portal into a "multiverse", a set of interconnected realities that link very different stories from the beginning of the author's career to the present. Characters, places, even objects recur in this universe. King has sold 225 million copies to date of his over forty books and seen most of them adapted into motion pictures, television movies, or miniseries. He has transformed our world by creating a world of his own. Wiater, Golden, and Wagner open the door.

The Stephen King Universe is a brilliant, engrossing guidebook to the imaginative interior of this extraordinary creative force. It speaks to the reader from the center of King's universe showing you how the elements of one story reappear in others, how all are interrelated, and how none can be truly understood without reference to the others.

A few other books about King (most of them out of date) have catalogued King's stories and characters, but The Stephen King Universe -- a unique work of popular criticism -- embraces, integrates, and explains the entire body of King's work, and reveals his creative processes. The authors also, in demonstrating King's impact on pop culture, suggest that this artist is able to touch the universal consciousness. Like the greatest authors of all times, King intimately knows his readers' hearts, fears, and dreams.

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