Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished - Revised & Expanded Edition (77 page)

Night Shift
(v)

Sorry, Right Number
Unpublished Shooting Script

Nightmares and Dreamscapes
(n)

Squad D
Unpublished Short Story

The Stand
Original Novel Original Novel (v)

Complete and Uncut
Novel (n)

Unpublished Movie Screenplay (n)

Unpublished Mini-Series Screenplay (n)

The Star Invaders
Unpublished Short Story

Stationary Bike Borderlands 5

Just After Sunset
(r)

Storm of the Century
Screenplay

The Stranger People, Places and Things

Strawberry Spring Ubris
, Fall 1968

Cavalier
, November 1975 (n)

Night Shift
(r)

Night Shift
Screenplay (n)

Stud City Ubris
, Fall 1969

The Body
(n)

Suffer the Little Children Cavalier
, February 1972

Nightmares and Dreamscapes
(n)

The Sun Dog Four Past Midnight

Survivor Type Terrors

Skeleton Crew
(v)

Sword in the Darkness
Unpublished Novel

The Tale of Gray Dick Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
, 25 February 2003

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
(v)

The Talisman
Novel

The Ten O’Clock People Nightmares and Dreamscapes

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is The New Yorker
, 22/29 June 1998

in French Everything’s Eventual
(v)

They Bite
Unpublished Screenplay

They’re Creeping Up on You Creepshow
Screenplay

Creepshow
(n)

The Thing at the Bottom of the Well People, Places and Things

The Things They Left Behind Transgressions

Just After Sunset
(r)

Thinner
Novel

Throttle He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson

Tommy Playboy
, March 2010

The Tommyknockers
Novel

Trucks Cavalier
, June 1973

Night Shift
(v)

Umney’s Last Case Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Uncle Otto’s Truck Yankee
, October 1983

Skeleton Crew
(n)

Under the Dome
Novel

Untitled (The Huffman Story)
Unpublished Novel

Untitled (She Has Gone to Sleep While)
Contraband, 31 October 1971

Untitled Screenplay (Radio Station)
Unpublished Screenplay

Ur
www.amazon.com
, 12 February 2009

A Very Tight Place McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
, May 2008

The Wedding Gig Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
,

December 1980

Skeleton Crew
(n)

Weeds Cavalier
, May 1976

What Tricks Your Eye
Unpublished Story

Why We’re in Vietnam Hearts in Atlantis

Willa Playboy
, December 2006

Wimsey
Unpublished Novel

The Woman in the Room Night Shift

Woman with Child
Contraband, 31 October 1971

The Word Processor Playboy
, January 1983

Word Processor of the Gods Skeleton Crew

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band Shock Rock

Nightmares and Dreamscapes
(n)

Non Fiction

King’s contribution to non-fiction is often overlooked due to his huge output of fiction. However, he has actually been responsible for over 650 separate pieces of non-fiction, ranging from entire books to short articles, reviews and the like.

The most extensive review of these ever compiled (including even such minor items as letters to the editor) appears in
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks (Cemetery Dance, 2009). The authors spent five years compiling this reference work, with the assistance of many of the leading King researchers, collectors and “super-collectors;” and access to Restricted Non-Fiction Works in King’s papers at the University of Maine, Orono.

Covering all King’s published and known unpublished works from 1959 through late 2006,
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
revealed
for the first time
dozens of pieces of non-fiction and their appearances that were previously unknown to King researchers.

Among new pieces reviewed in the book are:

• Two
  previously unknown King pieces from his high school days – sports reporting in the Lisbon
  Enterprise
  (these are
  not
  the articles King describes in
  On Writing
  );
  and
  a King non-fiction piece from his high school newspaper
  The Drum
  ; along with the fascinating story of their rediscovery by the authors
  
• A 1967 column supporting the US troops in Vietnam
  
• Previously unknown pieces from
  The Maine Campus
  , such as a review of the Spring 1969 issue of
  Ubris
  (in which King published the first version of
  Night Surf
  , the precursor to
  The Stand
  ); an amazing movie review; and letters to the editor (many highly amusing)
  
• Nine
  unpublished
  pieces of non-fiction reviewed in detail, including pieces held in the Restricted Boxes of King’s papers at the University of Maine – for the first time anywhere the authors describe these works
  in detail
  
• A large number of previously unknown letters to the editor
  
• Introductions to the work of other authors; and book reviews published in unusual venues
  
• Comprehensive reviews of King’s non-fiction in the
  Bangor Daily News
  and other Maine newspapers, some of it controversial
  
• King’s early baseball writing, most published in Maine newspapers
  
• Working from the original sources Wood and Brooks also identified and corrected numerous errors in the previous reporting of material – incorrect titles, dates, pagination and even publication information
  

The
Contents
are as follows:

Argument: A Guide to King’s Non-Fiction.
Introduces the Reader to the book and King’s rich tapestry, including his strong sense of opinion, sense of humor, style and risks he often takes in the Non-Fiction mode.

King’s Major Non-Fiction

Early Columns – Garbage Truck

Danse Macabre, On Writing

Baseball – Faithful; Heads Down and the Red Sox Obsession

Opinion – Horror

Opinion – The Craft of Writing

Author’s Notes and Introductions to His Own Work

Later Columns – The Pop of King

King’s Minor Non-Fiction

Introducing the Works of Others

Book Reviews

Letters to the Editor, Guest Columns

Opinion – Radio, Music, Film and Television

Opinion – Venturing into Politics

Opinion – Let’s Argue

Miscellany

King’s Unpublished Non-Fiction

Addendum

Each of the Chapters is in narrative form and covers the following information:

• The history of and interesting information about each piece
  
• Summary, including significant quotes
  
• Critique
  
• Relevance to other King Works (particularly to his Fiction)
  
• Advice to Readers wishing to accessing the piece
  

Bibliography
– A full list of all King’s Non-Fiction, with detailed citations

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank the following for their assistance:

David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn, who worked with me on earlier editions of this book.

Marsha DeFilippo and Julie Eugley at Stephen King’s office for their time, material provided and continuing gracious assistance. Stephen King for his permission to read the Restricted materials at the Fogler Library and, of course, for his stories.

Betsy Beattie, Elaine Smith and Richard Hollinger at the Special Collections Unit of the Raymond H. Fogler Library of the University of Maine at Orono for their assistance during my three week “camping trip” to their wonderful resource.

Stu Tinker for his help, advice and hospitality.

The additional assistance in gathering materials and helping with corrections provided by Tyson Blue, Stephen J. Spignesi, Michael Collings, Bev Vincent, Kerry Johnson, Bob Jackson, Chris Cavalier, C.S. O’Brien, Justin Brooks, Wendy Bousfield and Matthias Belz is greatly appreciated.

Rich Chizmar, Brian Freeman and all the staff of Cemetery Dance Publications for their support.

About The Author 

Rocky Wood traveled to Bangor, Maine in November and December 2002 where he spent three weeks reading the Stephen King archives at the Special Collections Unit at the Fogler Library of the University of Maine at Orono. King personally gave written permission to view the “Restricted” materials lodged at the Library.  

As a result of that work, he compiled
The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King
with David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn. The first edition was released in May 2003; a second, revised edition in November 2003 and in a Third Edition in November 2004. Further updates to that work are projected. 

He has been an avid King reader since 1977 and he has now completed five research trips to Maine. 

He is the co-author of three other major King works –
The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King
(2003; 2004);
The Stephen King Collector’s Guide
(2007); and
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
(2009). He received the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award nomination for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, for
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished
; and for
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
.  

He has spoken at numerous conventions about King, including the SKEMER Con in Estes Park, Colorado (2003); Continuum 3 (2005) and Continuum 4 (2006) in Melbourne, Australia; Conflux 3 in Canberra, Australia (2006); the 2nd Annual Stephen King Dollar Baby Festival in Bangor, Maine (2005); and the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City (2008). He has published non-fiction worldwide for thirty years; and is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on King’s work. 

A New Zealander, Rocky lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is an avid Rugby, Cricket, Association Football and Baseball fan. A proud member of the Horror Writers Association, he has served on their Board since 2008. He is also a Member of the Australian Horror Writers Association.