A Brief Guide to Stephen King (35 page)
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Authors: Paul Simpson
Special thanks also go to:
Duncan Proudfoot and Becca Allen at Constable & Robinson for commissioning the book, the completion of a trilogy on classic fantasy writing: C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum’s Oz, and now King.
Brian J. Robb for his usual sterling work going through the manuscript and pulling me up on certain idiocies (notably involving a
Transformers-like
change for Mr King!), as well as assistance with locating hard-to-find items on the Internet.
My copy editor Gabriella Nemeth, who has worked with me on all five of my recent volumes, and in each case has helped ensure that I wrote the book I thought I had written!
Kate Doyle at AudioGO, Andy Mangels, Kerry Hood, Sophie Calder, Patricia Hyde, Allyn Gibson, Adina Mihae-la Roman, Monica Derwent and Iain Coupar for reading and research materials.
Lee Harris, Amanda Rutter, Emlyn Rees, Emma Capron, Clare Hey and Jeannine Dillon for keeping the workflow going.
Carol Matthews and Nick Hancock for musical assistance to allow me to fulfil requirements, and ASCAT church choir and All the Right Notes singers for the musical outlets.
Frances Novis and the Year 6 children at St Wilfrid’s School for putting up with a slightly stressed musical director for
Peace Child
.
The staff at the Hassocks branch of the West Sussex Public Library who were once again so helpful, particularly when it became clear that items had vanished from stock. Support your public library: it may not be there next time you need it otherwise.
And as always, most importantly, my partner Barbara (who is convinced of the impossible – that I’ve been reading too many Stephen King books) and my daughter Sophie, who both let me escape to my own Dark Tower to get this complete; and the junior Cujos, aka Rani and Rodo, who stood guard on the door (okay, just lay there) as I worked.
Beahm, George:
Stephen King: America’s Best-Loved Boogeyman
(Andrews McNeel, 1998)
Jones, Stephen:
Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide
(Titan Books, 2001)
King, Stephen:
Danse Macabre
(Berkeley Press, 1993)
King, Stephen:
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
(Scribner, 2001)
Magistrale, Tony:
Hollywood’s Stephen King
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Rogak, Lisa:
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
(JR Books, 2009)
Vincent, Bev:
The Dark Tower Companion
(New American Library, April 2013)
Wiater, Stanley, Christopher Golden and Hank Wagner:
The Complete Stephen King Universe
(revised edition, St Martin’s Griffin, 2006)
Wood, Rocky:
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished (Revised and Expanded Edition)
(Overlook Connection, 2013)
Promotional interviews and other material reprinted at Lilja’s
Library, and Charnel House websites, as well as
StephenKing.com
Entertainment Weekly
,
20 May 2011 ‘Stephen King sounds off on new “Carrie” remake – EXCLUSIVE’
The Highway Patrolman
,
July 1987: ‘An Interview with Stephen King’
Stanley Hotel, Colorado website:
http://www.stanleyhotel.com/about/haunted-history
Entertainment Weekly
,
23 April 2007: ‘On Predicting Violence’
Los Angeles Times
,
14 January 1990: ‘A High School Gunman’s Days of Rage’
Screen Daily
,
4 October 2000: ‘WAMC set to animate Stephen King’s Dragon’
New York Times
,
31 May 1987: ‘Summer Reading: Sheldon Gets the Ax’
Interview with Stephen King by Lynn Flewelling. August 1990, reprinted at
SFF.Net
Paris Review
,
No. 178, Fall 2006: ‘Stephen King, The Art of Fiction No. 189’
Playbill
,
9 November 2012:
Misery
Gets Company: William Goldman, Author of “The Season”, Pens Stage Thriller’
Writer’s Digest
magazine, 1991: ‘Digging up stories with Stephen King’ (available at
http://wallacestroby.com/writersonwriting _king.html
)
New York Times
,
18 November 1992: ‘Book Notes: King on Horror’
LA Weekly
,
19 April 2012: ‘Lawrence Kasdan Interview’
Dreamcatcher
DVD Special Features: Interview with Stephen King (recorded November 2002)
Tenebres
,
no. 11/12 (Stephen King Special): Peter Straub interview (English version at
http://www.liljas-library.com/show-interview.php?id=6
)
NPR Books
,
28 May 2013: ‘Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared’
Parade
magazine, 25 May 2013: ‘A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King’
Entertainment Weekly
,
1 February 2013: ‘Stephen King unearths origin of “The Shining” sequel “Doctor Sleep” – EXCLUSIVE’
Daily Telegraph
,
1 February 2010: ‘Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home’
Urban Cinefile
,
31 January 2002: ‘Great Acting Is Nothing’
Los Angeles Times
,
27 January 2002: ‘House Master’
Associated Press, 1 March 2004, ‘Stephen King has embedded knowledge of “Kingdom Hospital” ’
Entertainment Weekly
,
9 July 2004: ‘A Kingdom That Didn’t Come’
Jim
Shooter.com
, 12 September 2011: ‘Heroes for Hope and Why I Don’t Like Oxfam America’:
http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/09/heroes-for-hope-and-why-i-dont-like.html
USA Today
,
30 March 2010: ‘American vampires revealed’
Ain’t It Cool News
,
27 February 2007: ‘Quint’s chat with Stephen King!!’
Guardian
,
18 September 2004: ‘Dark Rider’
Guardian
,
14 September 2000: ‘The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished’
American Theatre
,
April 2012 ‘Stephen King’s Down-Home Nightmare’
Atlantic
,
23 July 2013: ‘Why Stephen King Spends “Months and Even Years” Writing Opening Sentences’
National Book Foundation: ‘Stephen King, Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution To American Letters Award, 2003’ speech at
http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_sking.html#.UfO-kppwbIU
New York Times, USA Today
and
Entertainment Weekly
reviews quoted at their websites.
11/22/63
(TV series)
146–7
‘1408’ (short story)
210
,
211
,
215
,
263
ABC (American Broadcasting Company)
23
,
25
,
50
,
90
,
114–15
,
214
,
244–5
,
246
,
249
Abrahams, Peter
121
Abrams, J. J.
146–7
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
245
‘Afterlife’
229–30
‘The Aftermath’
7
Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto
50
Ain’t It Cool News website
157
,
160
Albuquerque, Rafael
254
‘All That You Love Will Be Carried Away’
209
Alleca, Adam
134
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
21–2
American Booksellers Association
21
American Friends Service Committee
252
American Library Association
51
American Vampire
(comic book series)
31
,
252–4
Anderson, Bob and Darcy
220
,
222
Anderson, Josef
238
animated adaptations
190
,
197
,
214
Antaeus
magazine
205
Apt Pupil
film
193–4
stage adaptation
194
Askin, Peter
222
Attias, Daniel
73
audiobooks
137
,
139
,
196
,
211
,
217
,
219
,
264
awards
23
,
24
,
28–9
,
30
,
61
,
80
,
137
,
175
,
211
,
213
,
219
,
229
,
240
,
245
‘Ayana’
212
Bachman Books
17
,
46
,
59
,
64–5
,
91
,
92
,
114
Bachman, Richard (pseudonym)
13
,
16–17
,
23
,
30
,
45
,
47
,
50–1
,
59
,
64
,
65
,
77
,
91–2
,
111
,
114
,
115
,
138–9
,
170
,
264–5
Bag of Bones
‘Ballad of the Flexible Bullet’
195
Bannerman, Sheriff George
52
,
53
,
60–1
Barris, Chuck
51
Barry, Dave
21
baseball
19
,
20
,
31
,
119–21
,
198
,
201
,
217
,
218
,
224–5
‘Batman and Robin Have an Altercation’
229
‘Battle of Jericho Hill’ (Marvel Comics)
181
‘Battleground’ (short story)
187
,
189
Battleground
(TV episode)
189–90
BBC Radio (British Broadcasting Corporation)
41
,
71
,
139
,
200
Bean, Adrian
41
‘The Bear’
162
Beaulieu, Janet
160–1
Beaumont, Thad
90–1
,
92
,
93
,
95
,
117
‘The Beggar and the Diamond’
201
Best American Short Stories
30
,
213
‘Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game’
195
‘The Bird and the Album’
80
Bizarre Adventures #29
190
Black House
(S. King and P. Straub)
27
,
75
,
124–6
,
178
Black Ribbons
(concept album)
255–6
Black Thirteen
167
,
168
,
169
,
171–2
Blaisdell Jr., Clayton
137–8
Blaze
(R. Bachman)
11
,
30
,
40
,
137–9
,
141
Blood and Smoke
audiobook
211
Bloody Disgusting website
128
Blount, Roy
21
Boam, Jeffrey
54
The Body
22
,
73
,
95
,
192–3
,
194
,
196
,
223
see also Stand By Me
Bollywood films
190
Book Genome Project
230
A Book of Horrors
(S. Jones ed.)
228
Booth, Susan V.
258