You are here: Home > Our Authors > King, Stephen

VJ Books Presents Author Stephen King!

Stephen King Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 50 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers. King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. You can find numerous Stephen King first edition books below this author bio.

King lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.

Stephen King Book List
His website: www.stephenking.com
Similar authors: Clive Barker, Joe Hill, Owen King, Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon
Follow him on Facebook
Follow him on Twitter

Billy Summers
UK Limited Edition Book

Billy Summers by Stephen King

Billy Summers
First Edition Book

Billy Summers by Stephen King

Later
First Trade Paper

Later by Stephen King

If It Bleeds
First Edition Book

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

If It Bleeds
First UK Book

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

Bitter Medicine
First Graphic Novel

Bitter Medicine by Stephen King
Sort By:
Page of 1
Wolves of the Calla | King, Stephen | First Edition Book King, Stephen | Wolves of the Calla | First Edition Copy

2003 NY: Simon & Schuster  First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $59.99
March Madness $12.00
You save $47.99!
Regulators, The | Bachman, Richard (King, Stephen) | First Edition Book Bachman, Richard (King, Stephen) | Regulators, The | Unsigned First Edition Copy

1996 NY: Ballantine  First edition, first printing, new/unread in flawless dust jacket.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $35.99
You save $28.79!
King, Stephen & Chizmar, Richard | Gwendy's Magic Feather | Signed First Edition Copy King, Stephen & Chizmar, Richard | Gwendy's Magic Feather | Signed First Edition Copy

Author Signed Hardcover Book. November 2019 NY: Cemetery Dance Publications First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author.  This is a collectible book free from material defects.  Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $219.99
March Madness $89.99
You save $130.00!
King, Stephen | Holly | UK First Edition Book King, Stephen | Holly | UK Unsigned First Edition Book

First Edition Hardcover Book. September 2023 LON: Hodder & Stoughton UK first edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $129.99
March Madness $59.99
You save $70.00!
King, Stephen | Holly | Unsigned First Edition Book King, Stephen | Holly | Unsigned First Edition Book

Hardcover Book. September 2023 NY: Scribner First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust cover jacket.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $99.99
March Madness $49.99
You save $50.00!
King, Stephen | Institute, The | First Edition Book King, Stephen | Institute, The | Unsigned First Edition Book

First Edition Hardcover Book. September 2019 NY: Scribner  First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $99.99
March Madness $49.99
You save $50.00!
Finders Keepers | King, Stephen | First Edition UK Book King, Stephen | Finders Keepers | First Edition UK Book

First UK Edition Hardcover Book   2015 LON: Hodder & Stroughton    First UK edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket. Each dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days
VJ Books Price $199.99
March Madness $79.99
You save $120.00!
Sleeping Beauties | King, Stephen & King, Owen | Signed First Edition UK Book King, Stephen & King, Owen | Sleeping Beauties | Signed First Collector's Edition UK Copy

Author Signed UK Hardcover Book. September 2017 LON: Hodder & Stoughton First UK edition, special collector's first printing with printed endpapers, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket, signed by Owen King.

Currently Unavailable
VJ Books Price $379.99
John's Pick $159.99
You save $220.00!
   
 

Stephen King Bibliography


The Dark Tower Series

  1. The Gunslinger (1982)
  2. The Drawing of the Three (1985)
  3. The Waste Lands (1991)
  4. Wizard and Glass (1997)
  5. Wolves of the Calla (2003)
  6. Song of Susannah (2004)
  7. The Dark Tower (2004)
  8. Everything's Eventual (2002)
  9. Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)

The Drawing of the Three Graphic Novels

  1. The Prisoner - 2020
  2. House of Cards - 2020
  3. The Lady of Shadows - 2020
  4. Bitter Medicine - 2020

Talisman (with Peter Straub)

  1. The Talisman (1984)
  2. Black House (2001)
  3. The Talisman and Black House (omnibus) (2003)
  4. The Talisman and Black House (Collector's Edition Signed by Peter Straub) (2012)

The Green Mile

  1. The Two Dead Girls (1996)
  2. The Mouse on the Mile (1996)
  3. Coffey's Hands (1996)
  4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (1996)
  5. Night Journey (1996)
  6. Coffey on the Mile (1996)

Bill Hodges Series

  1. Mr. Mercedes (2014)
  2. Finders Keepers (June 2015)
  3. End of Watch (June 2016)

Other Novels

  • The Star Invaders (1964)
  • Carrie (1974)
  • Salem's Lot (1975)
  • The Shining (1977)
  • The Stand (1978)
  • The Dead Zone (1979)
  • Firestarter (1980)
  • Cujo (1981)
  • The Mist (1981)
  • Pet Sematary (1982)
  • Christine (1983)
  • Cycle of the Werewolf (1984)
  • It (1986)
  • The Eyes of the Dragon (1986)
  • The Tommyknockers (1987)
  • Misery (1987)
  • The Dark Half (1989)
  • The Stand, the Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)
  • Needful Things (1991)
  • Dolores Claiborne (1992)
  • Gerald's Game (1992)
  • Insomnia (1994)
  • The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script (1994) (with Frank Darabont)
  • Rose Madder (1995)
  • Desperation (1996)
  • The Green Mile (1996)
  • Bag of Bones (1998)
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
  • Dreamcatcher (2001)
  • From a Buick 8 (2002)
  • The Colorado Kid (2005)
  • Cell (2006)
  • Lisey's Story (2006)
  • Duma Key (2008)
  • Under the Dome (2009)
  • 11/22/63 (2011)
  • Doctor Sleep (2013)
  • Sleeping Beauties (September 2017) (co-authored with Owen King)
  • The Outsider (May 2018)
  • Elevation (October 2018)
  • Pet Sematary (December 2018)
  • The Institute (September 2019) - also available in UK Edition
  • If It Bleeds - 2020
  • Later - 2021
  • Billy Summers US & UK - 2021

Omnibus

  • Selected Works (1983)
  • Carrie / the Tommyknockers (1994)
  • Desperation / Regulators (1997) (writing as Richard Bachman)
  • Stephen King Omnibus (1997)

Collections

  • People, Places, and Things (1963) (with Chris Chesley)
  • Night Shift (1978)
  • Different Seasons (1982)
  • Skeleton Crew (1985)
  • Four Past Midnight (1990)
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)
  • Gray Matter: And Other Stories (1993)
  • Six Stories (1997)
  • Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
  • Blood and Smoke (audio) (1999)
  • Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction On The Craft Of Writing (2000)
  • Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002)
  • The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales (2002)
  • The Secretary of Dreams (2006)
  • Just After Sunset (2008)
  • Stephen King Goes To The Movies (2009)
  • Road Rage (2009) (with Joe Hill and Richard Matheson)
  • Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
  • Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)

Chapbooks

  • Silver Bullet (1985)
  • My Pretty Pony (1989)
  • The Library Policeman (1991)
  • Lawnmower Man (1992)
  • Umney's Last Case (1995)
  • Apt Pupil (1998)
  • Quitter's Inc. (1999)
  • LT's Theory of Pets (2001)

Plays

  • Storm of the Century (1999)

Graphic Novels

  • American Vampire Vol. 1 (2010) (with Rafael Albuquerque and Scott Snyder)
  • The Talisman: Vol. 1: The Road of Trials (2010) (with Peter Straub)

Novellas

  • The Breathing Method (1984)
  • The Langoliers (1990)
  • Secret Window, Secret Garden (1991)
  • Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog (1993)
  • The Body (1994)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • Two Past Midnight: Secret Window (1994)
  • Riding the Bullet (2001)
  • Secret Window (2004)
  • Stationary Bike (2006)
  • The Gingerbread Girl (2008)
  • Blockade Billy (2010)
  • Ur (2010)

Series Contributed To

  • Transgressions (with Lawrence Block, John Farris) - Terror's Echo (2005)
  • Best American Short Stories (with Katrina Kenison) - The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007)

Non-Fiction


  • Danse Macabre (1980)
  • Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (1988) (with f-stop Fitzgerald)
  • Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude (1994) (with Dave Barry, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver and Amy Tan)
  • Stephen King Live (1999)
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
  • The WaveDancer Benefit (2002) (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Peter Straub)
  • Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the 2004 Season (2004) (with Stewart O'Nan)
  • Building Bridges: Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards (2004)

Anthologies containing stories by Stephen King

  • Tales of Unknown Horror (1976)
  • Chamber of Horrors (1978)
  • Shadows (1978)
  • The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978)
  • More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
  • The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
  • The Year's Finest Fantasy Volume 2 (1979)
  • The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1980)
  • Dark Forces (1980)
  • New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
  • New Terrors 2 (1980)
  • The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
  • Fantasy Annual III (1981)
  • Fantasy Annual IV (1981)
  • The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
  • Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
  • Shadows 4 (1981)
  • The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1983)
  • Realms of Darkness (1985)
  • A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
  • The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
  • Horrors (1986)
  • The Colour of Evil (1987)
  • Masques 2 (1987)
  • Dark Visions (1988)
  • Horror Stories (1988)
  • The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
  • Prime Evil (1988)
  • Book of the Dead (1989)
  • Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (1990)
  • Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
  • I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
  • Midnight Graffiti (1992)
  • First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)
  • The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994)
  • Young Blood (1994)
  • Dark Love (1995)
  • Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films (1995)
  • The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
  • American Gothic Tales (1996)
  • Twists of the Tale (1996)
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
  • The Best of the Best (1997)
  • Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
  • Dancing with the Dark (1997)
  • Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997)
  • Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (1998)
  • Legends (1998)
  • The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
  • 999 (1999)
  • A Haunting Collection (1999)
  • Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
  • Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
  • Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
  • Flight or Fright (September 2018)

Short Stories

  • Cain Rose Up (1968)
  • Here There Be Tygers (1968)
  • The Reaper's Image (1969)
  • Graveyard Shift (1970)
  • I Am the Doorway (1971)
  • Battleground (1972)
  • The Mangler (1972)
  • The Boogeyman (1973)
  • Gray Matter (1973)
  • Trucks (1973)
  • Night Surf (1974)
  • Sometimes They Come Back (1974)
  • The Lawnmower Man (1975)
  • Salem's Lot (excerpt) (1975)
  • Strawberry Spring (1975)
  • I Know What You Need (1976)
  • The Ledge (1976)
  • The Cat from Hell (1977)
  • Children of the Corn (1977)
  • The Man Who Loved Flowers (1977)
  • One for the Road (1977)
  • The Gunslinger (1978)
  • Jerusalem's Lot (1978)
  • The Last Rung on the Ladder (1978)
  • The Night of the Tiger (1978)
  • Nona (1978)
  • Quitters, Inc. (1978)
  • The Woman in the Room (1978)
  • The Crate (1979)
  • Big Wheels (1980)
  • Crouch End (1980)
  • The Mist (1980)
  • The Monkey (1980)
  • The Way Station (1980)
  • The Wedding Gig (1980)
  • The Jaunt (1981)
  • The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands (1981)
  • The Reach (1981) aka Do the Dead Sing?
  • Apt Pupil (1982)
  • Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (1982)
  • The Body (1982)
  • The Breathing Method (1982)
  • Morning Deliveries (1982)
  • The Raft (1982)
  • Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982)
  • Survivor Type (1982)
  • Uncle Clayton (1983)
  • Uncle Otto's Truck (1983)
  • The Word Processor (1983)
  • Word Processor of the Gods (1983)
  • The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (1984)
  • Gramma (1984)
  • Mrs Todd's Shortcut (1984)
  • The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson (1984)
  • Beachworld (1985)
  • For Owen (1985)
  • Paranoid: A Chant (1985)
  • The End of the Whole Mess (1986)
  • The Fifth Quarter (1986)
  • Popsy (1987)
  • Dedication (1988)
  • The Night Flier (1988)
  • The Reploids (1988)
  • Sneakers (1988)
  • Dolan's Cadillac (1989)
  • Home Delivery (1989)
  • The Langoliers (1989)
  • The Library Policeman (1989)
  • My Pretty Pony (1989)
  • Rainy Season (1989)
  • Secret Window, Secret Garden (1989)
  • The Sun Dog (1989)
  • The Moving Finger (1990)
  • It Grows on You (1991)
  • Chattery Teeth (1992)
  • You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (1992)
  • Brooklyn August (1993)
  • The Doctor's Case (1993)
  • Head Down (1993)
  • The House on Maple Street (1993)
  • Sorry, Right Number (1993)
  • Suffer the Little Children (1993)
  • The Ten O'Clock People (1993)
  • Umney's Last Case (1993)
  • The Man in The Black Suit (1994)
  • Lunch at the Gotham Cafe (1995)
  • Autopsy Room Four (1997)
  • Blind Willie (1997)
  • Everything's Eventual (1997)
  • L.T.'s Theory of Pets (1997)
  • Lucky Quarter (1997)
  • The Little Sisters of Eluria (1998)
  • That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French (1998)
  • Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
  • Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling (1999)
  • Low Men in Yellow Coats (1999)
  • Riding the Bullet (1999)
  • The Road Virus Heads North (1999)
  • Why We're in Vietnam (1999)
  • 1408 (2000)
  • In the Deathroom (2000)

Stephen King Awards and Honors

  • 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters
  • 2014 National Medal of Arts

Click here to see a complete list of Awards and Nominations on Stephen King's website

Go to top of page