{"product_id":"king-noir-the-crime-fiction-of-stephen-king-paperback-softback-9781496852755","title":"King Noir; The Crime Fiction of Stephen King (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496852755","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKing Noir\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Crime Fiction of Stephen King\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTony Magistrale (Author), Michael J. Blouin (Author), Stephen King (Contributions by), Charles Ardai (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496852755\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.373 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Magistrale and Blouin, English professors at the University of Vermont and Milligan University, respectively, follow up 2020’s \u003ci\u003eStephen King and American History\u003c\/i\u003e with an insightful elucidation of noir’s influence on the horror writer. . . . A brief introductory note from King about crime fiction’s influence on his work will be of particular interest (he recounts learning from Patricia Highsmith to ‘let the reader know everything, but let the characters always be a few steps behind’). This sheds new light on an underexplored facet of King’s oeuvre.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen King’s body of work is inspired by, and drawn heavily from, crime fiction. Breaking new ground, Magistrale and Blouin explore terra incognita and shed considerable light on the importance of noir fiction in King’s oeuvre. Long overdue, this book is essential reading for Stephen King’s fans worldwide.\" - George Beahm, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin have crafted a brilliant and important study of Stephen King’s indebtedness to crime fiction and how it has shaped his work from the start.\" - Carl Sederholm, editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in mythic—specifically Jungian—contexts, in Gothic\/horror (especially American literary) contexts, and in a wide variety of other contexts appropriate to a writer who, over the past half century, has become \"America’s Storyteller.\" Beginning with a never-published chapter authored by Stephen King himself on the influence of the genre on his own writing, \u003ci\u003eKing Noir\u003c\/i\u003e makes an invaluable contribution to King scholarship by placing King’s works in conversation with American crime fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the third book that Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin have coauthored on the work of Stephen King, and the first to consider King’s canon through the lens of crime fiction. \u003ci\u003eKing Noir\u003c\/i\u003e examines not only King’s own efforts at writing in the detective genre, but also how the detective genre finds its way into work typically regarded as horror fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In interviews, King has acknowledged his debt to earlier writers in the genre, such as Ed McBain and Raymond Chandler, and he much more often references hardboiled writers than he does horror writers. One could speculate that King became a writer because of his love of pulpy crime fiction, which he continues to hold in high esteem. From \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Zone\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMr. Mercedes\u003c\/i\u003e, from the crime fiction of his pseudonym Richard Bachman to his most recent novel \u003ci\u003eHolly\u003c\/i\u003e, King returns obsessively to patterns established by American sleuths of every stripe, paying homage to them at the same time as he innovates on the formulas he has inherited. To focus upon a hardboiled Stephen King is to discover exciting new avenues for inquiry into one of America’s most enduring, and adaptable, storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52521349349656,"sku":"9781496852755","price":16.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/king-noir-the-crime-fiction-of-stephen-king-paperback-softback-9781496852755","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}