From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a ...

From biographies on Jane Birkin and Gwyneth Paltrow to must-read memoirs from the likes of Graydon Carter, Brooke Shields, and Ms. Tina Knowles herself.

The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.