Michael Berry, The Portland Press Herald Big, complex and inventive, it’s a well-honed continuation of his interest in the intersection of crime and horror fiction, demonstrating his consummate skill with both.” “King appears to be on a hot streak, that he extends with The Outsider. All of these glories are on full display in his latest mystery-horror hybrid. "King is arguably as much an American icon as the ’68 Fastback or a classic red and white Plymouth Fury. Victor LaValle, New York Times Book Review "Here’s to mutant rats in the basement and Mexican myths here’s to the strange and to Stephen King. “An It for the Trump era…remarkable and deeply pleasurable.”
Yet the most unsettling stuff - that which will leave you uncomfortable when you sit and devour this first-rate read - probes the monstrous side of human nature.” “There’s plenty of shadowy, wormy supernatural goings-on in Stephen King’s new novel The Outsider. another shockingly dark book-perfect for longtime fans, of whom there are, well, zillions.” King’s skillful use of criminal forensics helps to ground his tale in a believable clinical reality where the horrors stand out in sharp relief.” “What begins as a manhunt for an unlikely doppelgänger takes an uncanny turn into the supernatural. will remind readers of King's early novel It." "A juicy tale that plays at the forefront of our current phobias.
He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock).
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr.
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