--- title: Stephen King Shares Corgi Pictures on Facebook, Twitter description: Her name is Molly but he refers to her as the Thing of Evil canonical: https://time.com/3944544/stephen-king-corgi/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-02T17:01:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:18.727Z og:title: Stephen King Has a Corgi and You Need to Drop Everything and Look at Her og:description: Her name is Molly but he refers to her as the Thing of Evil og:url: https://time.com/3944544/stephen-king-corgi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen King Has a Corgi and You Need to Drop Everything and Look at Her twitter:description: Her name is Molly but he refers to her as the Thing of Evil twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Important: Stephen King Has a Corgi and You Need to Drop Everything and Look at Her by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 2, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 2, 2015 5:01 PM CUT The other day, international literary icon Stephen King shared a photo with his 4.3 million Facebook fans. It was a photo that would change absolutely everything. Absolutely _everything_. Behold: Yes, that is Stephen King, reigning master of horror, holding his adorable pet corgi. Her real name is Molly, but he likes to refer to her as the “Thing of Evil.” Here is the story of Molly. King first introduced her in December, when he showed her as a tiny pup chewing on a Santa hat. So festive! > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/544939465815621633) A few months later, in February, King shared a picture of a then four-month-old Molly showing that she seriously knows how to chill. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/565983605831520256) No seriously, she is so good at chilling. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/581901179363430400) In April, we learned that Molly spends her days dreaming up wicked schemes. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/587794020874620928) Then, in May, the author revealed Molly’s true nature as both a Thing of Evil and also a ferocious hunter. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/596861382567526401) We also got a glimpse of Molly’s fitness regimen. > [](https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/594999789693116416) In June, we found out that Molly is also a really skilled destroyer of inanimate objects. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/607341283766628353) Oh, and for the record, King did not decide to get a corgi simply because they are the stubby-legged, fluffy-butted [darlings](http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseamarshall/bow-down-corgis#.xlV5ya6MQ "undefined") of the Internet. He revealed in a Throwback Thursday photo that he had a corgi named Marlowe back in 1995: A few of King’s literary characters have even been corgis: [Horace](http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Horace "undefined") in _Under the Dome_ and [Daisy](http://stephenking.com/library/bachman%5Fnovel/regulators%5Fthe%5Fcharacters.html "undefined") in _The Regulators._ ### 10 Puppies That Look Even More Adorable Underwater  Pringles & Pickme Seth Casteel  Monty Seth Casteel  Popsicle Seth Casteel  Ginger Seth Casteel  Ruger Seth Casteel  Rolley Seth Casteel  Iggy Seth Casteel  Reason Seth Casteel  Corey Seth Casteel ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3944544/stephen-king-corgi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3944544/stephen-king-corgi/"},"headline":"Important: Stephen King Has a Corgi and You Need to Drop Everything and Look at Her","datePublished":"2015-07-02T17:01:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:18.727Z","description":"Her name is Molly but he refers to her as the Thing of Evil","url":"https://time.com/3944544/stephen-king-corgi/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3944544/stephen-king-corgi/","name":"Important: Stephen King Has a Corgi and You Need to Drop Everything and Look at Her"}}]}] ```