There have been many books published about Stephen King. This list is in no way exhaustive.

  • 1981: Edward J. Zagorski: Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King
  • 1984: Douglas E. Winter: Stephen King: The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre
  • 1986: Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller: Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King
  • 1988: Don Herron: Reign of Fear: The Fiction and Film of Stephen King (1982-1989)
  • 1988: Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller: Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988)
  • 1989: George Beahm: The Stephen King Companion
  • 1989: Tyson Blue: The Unseen King
  • 1990: Stephen Spignesi: The Stephen King Quiz Book
  • 2001: Stanley Wiater, Christoper Golden, Hank Wagner: The Stephen King Universe; A guide to the worlds of Stephen King : Baltimore, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2001

Material about King can also be found in his own partly autobiographical On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), as well as scattered throughout King's Danse Macabre (1981).