Landscape of Fear

Tony Magistrale is professor of English at the University of Vermont.  His many books include Hollywood’s Stephen King, Poe’s Children, and A Dark Night’s Dreaming.

"A great read, insightful and intelligent. . . . Tony has helped me improve my reputation from ink-stained wretch popular novelist to ink-stained wretch popular novelist with occasional flashes of muddy insight."—Stephen King"In this close, careful, and serious reading of King's fiction, Magistrale shows how and why King must be accepted as more than just another successful popular purveyor of horror."—Frederick S. Frank, Guide to the Gothic"The best book so far on Stephen King's work as serious social fiction is Tony Magistrale's well-written study, Landscape of Fear. . . . Aggressively digging beneath the surface of King's novels, Magistrale explores major themes, patterns, and motifs in order to identify King's sociopolitical concerns, the subtexts beneath the monsters."—Michael A. Morrison, Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide