Stephen King All the Stories

About the Author

Frank Lafond, Ph.D., teaches at the ESCAT film school in Tours, and at the Université Côte d’Azur. From 2015 to 2023, he edited two collections of film books for Éditions Vendémiaire. He has published essays, in both French and English, in academic and mainstream publications, as well as in various collective works. Frank is the author of Jacques Tourneur, les figures de la peur (2007), Joe Dante, l’art du jeu (2011), Dictionnaire du cinéma fantastique et de science-fiction (2014), Samuel Fuller, jusqu'à l’épuisement (2017), Phase IV, éclipse de l’humanité (2020). In 2025, McFarland & Company will publish his new book, French Crime Films of the 1970s, co-authored with Roberto Curti. He lives in France.

Guy Astic is Director of Éditions Rouge Profond. He has published numerous works on the fantastique. He has nurtured a passion for Stephen King for forty years, writing about ten articles on his novels and short stories, discussing his work in several conferences, “Stephen King. Enfance et danse macabre” at the Forum des images in Paris, and appearing on radio or TV programs dedicated to the Master of Horror. He has edited two books about the writer: Stephen King. Premières approches (Éditions du CÉFAL, 2000); Colloque de Cerisy. Autour de Stephen King, l’horreur contemporaine (2008). He lives in France.