The Outsider
Fairy Tale 
Gwendy's Final Task
Billy Summers 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
About the Author
© SHANE LEONARD
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (co-written 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. 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.
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Names: King, Stephen, 1947– author. Title: Holly : a novel / Stephen King. Description: First Scribner hardcover edition. | New York : Scribner, 2023. Identifiers: LCCN 2022052466 (print) | LCCN 2022052467 (ebook) | ISBN 9781668016138 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781668014943 (paperback) | ISBN 9781668014950 (ebook) Subjects: LCGFT: Horror fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Novels. Classification: LCC PS3561.I483 H56 2023 (print) | LCC PS3561.I483 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23/eng/20221031 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022052466 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022052467
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