The Strange Dark One initiates Our Lord King . . .

. . . into that most tenebrous and necrophagous cultus of eldritch blasphemy, the Esoteric Order of the National Medal of Arts! Let all fools who have mocked supernatural horror fiction from their remote, stark and ghastly ivory towers now tremble in awe before his fell and terrible literary glory!

That totally fucking rocks!

Congrats Mr. King!

Sally Field, too.

Complete list of this year’s honorees.