There are bad accidents, and there are horrible accidents, and horror novelist Stephen King knows about the worst kind. In 1999, he was hit by a minivan, and he mines his experience with physical ...

CONSIDER the Stephen King kitchen, where the ingredients in the pantry are like comfort food: They’re always ready for another recipe. There’s the damaged and creative protagonist (“The Dark Half,” ...

Actually, if you’re one of Stephen King’s “constant readers,” you’ve met him before. In “The Dead Zone.” In “Kingdom Hospital.” In “Dreamcatcher” … You get the idea. King — who suffered his own ...

The master of horror has become more thoughtful in recent years. His latest novel, Duma Key, is not a terror-fest, but an eerie tale of paranormal powers. It makes for unsettling but intriguing ...

There's the damaged and creative protagonist ("The Dark Half," "Misery," "Lisey's Story"), the menacing residence ("Bag of Bones," "The Shining"), the vaguely cryptic friend with unusual abilities ...

To recover from a construction accident that took from him his right arm, some mental control and – fearful of his violent moods – his wife, Edgar Freemantle decamps to the winter warmth of the ...

There's the damaged and creative protagonist ("The Dark Half," "Misery," "Lisey's Story"), the menacing residence ("Bag of Bones," "The Shining"), the vaguely cryptic ...

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, ...

Not quite good enough to be entirely interesting and not quite scary enough to be... well, all that scary, Duma Key is a weird book. For its overly long first half, we get little more than the vaguely ...