Owen King

Owen King is an American author born in 1977 in Maine, the youngest son of legendary horror writer Stephen King and novelist Tabitha King. Growing up in Bangor, Maine in one of literature’s most celebrated families — his brother is Joe Hill — Owen forged his own distinct literary voice, one drawn more to dark comedy, human folly, and the absurdities of ambition than straight horror.

He studied at Vassar College before earning his MFA from Columbia University, and published his debut short fiction collection, We’re All in This Together, in 2005. His first full-length novel, Double Feature (2013), drew on his deep love of B-movies to tell a sprawling, mordant story about fathers, sons, and the chaos of indie filmmaking. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Grantland, the Los Angeles Review of Books, One Story, and Prairie Schooner.

In 2017, he co-wrote Sleeping Beauties with his father — a New York Times bestselling novel set in a women’s prison that asks what would happen if women simply stopped waking up. He also co-produced the CBS All Access miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand in 2020. His latest novel, The Curator (2023), is a gothic mystery set in a 19th-century city on the brink of revolution. Most recently, he ventured into comics with Self Help, a serial co-written with Jesse Kellerman, published by Syzygy/Image Comics beginning in 2024.