Holly

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). 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. 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. 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.

"What makes King's work so much more frightening than that of most other suspense writers, what elevates it to night-terror levels, isn't his cruelty to his characters: It's his kindness. King describes his characters' interior landscapes, their worries and plans, with a focus like a giant benevolent beam. You can sense the goodness running through them, and that current of goodness is what makes the acts of violence so disturbing." -Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review

"Both intimate and sprawling in its ambitions... Holly is the imperfect but determined angel among all those demons... a fitfully freaky thriller." -Brian Truitt, USA Today

"Tense, satisfying, and rich with detail, Holly is proof not just that King had more to say about the title character, but proof that Holly herself has much more to tell us." -Paste

"Holly is the heart of the narrative. Her growth from a shy, muttering mess in Mr. Mercedes to the smart, strong, smoking, slightly better, and much richer woman we see in Holly is tremendous. Please, Mr. King, give us more Holly soon." -Gabino Iglesias, NPR.org

"In half a century of writing horror novels, Stephen King has created some remarkable villains... The big bads in King's latest novel, Holly, aren't quite so memorable, but that's part of what makes them terrifying." -Rob Merrill, Associated Press

"A deadly folie a deux...[Holly] pursues this case to the gates of hell, figuratively-there's no supernatural element in this powerful exploration of grief and delusion, just pure, undistilled evil." -New York Magazine

"Deliciously, darkly comical. I'm all in on Holly." -Neil McRobert, Talking Scared

"Holly Gibney steps into the spotlight [and] takes center stage at last...Holly's complexity and relatability make her an endlessly fascinating protagonist." -BookPage

"King eschews the supernatural here but finds all the horror possible in the evil that