Rose Madder (novel)

Rose Madder
First edition cover
AuthorStephen King
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror/Fantasy
PublisherViking
Publication date
July 10, 1995
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages420
ISBN978-0-670-85869-9

Rose Madder is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1995. It deals with the effects of domestic violence (which King had touched upon before in the novels It, Insomnia, Dolores Claiborne, Needful Things, and many others) and, unusually for a King novel, relies for its fantastic element on Greek mythology. In his memoir, On Writing, King states that Rose Madder and Insomnia are "stiff, trying-too-hard novels."