the conjuring 2 was written by stephen king
in february 2021 kings foundation donated 6500 to help children from the farwell elementary school in lewiston maine to publish two novels on which they had been working over the course of several prior years before being stopped due to the covid19 pandemic in maine
 the first of these stories the dark tower the gunslinger was initially published in five installments by the magazine of fantasy  science fiction under the editorship of edward l