Why i love Stephen King books?

Stephen King is synonymous with horror. There are few authors who can compare when it comes to his skill, number of books written and number of books sold. So why do I love Stephen King? Here are five reasons:

(1) He spooked an entire generation

When King write ‘IT’, I wonder if he knew that he would kill a whole generation’s love of clowns. I know few people who don’t have that infamous creature’s image come to mind when they think of clowns, and even less who can suppress a shiver when you talk about that film. The new generation feels little for IT, but for those of us who watched it when we were young, we’ll never be the same…

(2) Carrie

Carrie White embodies the feelings of all teenagers. She was a victim, an outcast and a character who we couldn’t help but identify with. Having to face the overbearing parent, the unsympathetic school teachers and the vicious class mates every day are something that we have all gone through. Let’s face it, who wouldn’t have jumped at the chance to have had her powers at that age? To have been able to have inflicted revenge on those horrendous creatures that are known as teenagers? As much as we tell ourselves that we would have had more control over her powers than she did, we know deep inside that ultimately anyone in that situation would go down in flames.

The power of Carrie is in that while King makes us sympathize with her, he also makes us realize that we would have jumped on that tampon throwing, pig blood dousing bandwagon rather than defend her. We loved Carrie because we hated her.

(2) The Moving Finger

I first read ‘The Moving Finger’ when I was about twelve and it has been the only story I have read that I was too scared to finish. Finally, after 14 years I’m admitting that that short story scared me. Yet I went back for more and finished it. So how did that gem manage to freak me out? Because the characters and setting were so commonplace and the finger was so bizarre. Yet possible!

I still pick up the story once in a while and read it, hoping to find a glimpse of that horror from years ago, but I never find do it. I chuckle when i think that it could have scared me, because really, it shouldn’t have. No story has scared me since, yet I find myself hoping that every new book I read will have something of that essence, of that primal inexplicable fear, that special something that makes me glad I have a hair trap in my sink. But I’ve never found it, and King will forever be the first (and only) author who scared me.

(3) Everyday objects

Chattery teeth, a toy monkey, cars, fridges and don’t forget the Hadley-Watson Model-6 Speed Ironer and Folder. Each of these objects became something sinister, something other than what they were, and while it seems pretty lame in hindsight, when you’re reading them they draw you in. Hi subtle yet powerful characters are confronted with the bizarre, and I find myself thinking what I would do in that situation. The odds are I’d end up as the characters did…

(4) The Jaunt

One of the few stories that I’ve read and could actually hear a characters voice ringing in my head long after I put it down. The Jaunt is a little long winded but worth it. The sheer horror smacks you in the face after listening to the father tell his calming tale before the jaunt. You almost find yourself expecting to blink and wake up on Mars, only hear the commotion and see the… well… you’ll have to read it for yourself. After all, it’s longer than you think… right?

(5) He made me cry

While it wasn’t the gut wrenching full waterworks, a tear or two did fall at the end of the book Cujo. If you’ve seen the film, read the book instead. While I the horror genre doesn’t have a lot of happy endings, it doesn’t have a lot of tear jerkers either. Cujo is about more than just a dog, and when you finish that last page you can’t help but feel sad.

If you’re a King fan, you’ll have noticed that these references all come from early on in his career. I love King’s writing and continue to be a faithful reader, but my dedication to him has wavered somewhat over the years (round about the time The Dark Tower series came out). In my opinion, his best work came in the form of his early short stories, where his work was still filled with raw emotion and wrote for the effect – for the horror – no matter what people had to say.

Meet the writer

Stephen King talking about stuffs

Personal Life

King and his wife own and occupy three different houses, one in Bangor, one in Lovell, Maine, and they regularly winter in their waterfront mansion located off the Gulf of Mexico, in Sarasota, Florida. He and Tabitha have three children, Naomi, Joe and Owen, and three grandchildren.
In 1999 the satirical newspaper The Onion published an article, allegedly by King, which stated that he could not remember writing The Tommyknockers or several other novels because “after your 50 or 60th one, it’s all kind of a blur”. Although the article’s premise satirized his very prolific writing output, King’s alcohol and drug addictions were so serious during the 1980s that, as he acknowledged in On Writing in 2000, he indeed cannot remember writing The Tommyknockers, Cujo, or many others published during the decade. Shortly after the novel’s publication King’s family and friends staged an intervention, dumping evidence of his addictions taken from the trash including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan (cough medicine) and marijuana, on the rug in front of him. As King related in his memoir he then sought help, quit all forms of drugs and alcohol in the late 1980s, and has remained sober since. The first novel he wrote after quitting drugs and alcohol was Needful Things.
Tabitha King has published nine of her own novels. Both King’s sons are published authors: Owen King published his first collection of stories, We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005. Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes under the professional name Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005. His debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published in 2007 and will be adapted into a feature film by director Neil Jordan. King’s daughter Naomi is a Unitarian Universalist Church minister in Plantation, Florida with her same-sex partner, Rev. Dr. Thandeka.
King is a fan of baseball, and of the Boston Red Sox in particular; he frequently attends the team’s home and away games, and occasionally mentions the team in his novels and stories. He helped coach his son Owen’s Bangor West team to the Maine Little League Championship in 1989. He recounts this experience in the New Yorker essay “Head Down”, which also appears in the collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. In 1999, King wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which featured former Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon as the protagonist’s imaginary companion. In 2004, King co-wrote a book titled Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season with Stewart O’Nan, recounting the authors’ roller coaster reaction to the Red Sox’s 2004 season, a season culminating in the Sox winning the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series. In the 2005 film Fever Pitch, about an obsessive Boston Red Sox fan, King tosses out the first pitch of the Sox’s opening day game.

Stephen King Movies, including major motion pictures and smaller works, listed by year

1976 – Carrie
1979 – Salem’s Lot
1980 – The Shining
1982 – Creepshow (Five short films: “Father’s Day,” “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill,” “Something to Tide You Over,” “The Crate,” and “They’re Creeping Up On You”)
1982 – The Boogeyman (short film)
1983 – Cujo
1983 – The Dead Zone
1983 – Christine
1983 – Disciples of the Crow (short film)
1983 – The Woman in the Room (short film)
1984 – Children of the Corn
1984 – Firestarter
1985 – Cat’s Eye (Three short films: “Quitters, Inc.,” “The Ledge,” and “The General”)
1985 – Silver Bullet
1985 – Stephen King’s Nightshift Collection (Two short films: “The Woman in the Room” and “The Boogeyman”)
1985 – Word Processor of the Gods (episode of Tales from the Darkside)
1986 – Gramma (episode of The Twilight Zone)
1986 – Maximum Overdrive
1986 – Stand By Me
1987 – Creepshow 2 (Three short films: “Old Chief Wood’n’head,” “The Raft,” and “The Hitchhiker”)
1987 – A Return to Salem’s Lot
1987 – The Running Man
1987 – The Last Rung on the Ladder (short film)
1987 – Sorry, Right Number (episode of Tales from the Darkside)
1989 – Pet Sematary
1990 – The Cat From Hell (short film)
1990 – Graveyard Shift
1990 – It (TV mini-series)
1990 – Misery
1990 – The Moving Finger (Monsters episode)
1991 – Golden Years (TV miniseries)
1991 – Sometimes They Come Back
1992 – Sleepwalkers
1993 – The Dark Half
1993 – Needful Things
1993 – The Tommyknockers (miniseries)
1993 – Chinga (episode of The X-files)
1994 – The Shawshank Redemption
1994 – The Stand (miniseries)
1995 – The Langoliers (miniseries)
1995 – The Mangler
1995 – Dolores Claiborne
1995 – Stephen King’s Nightshift Collection
1996 – Thinner
1997 – The Shining (TV miniseries)
1997 – Ghosts (music video)
1997 – The Night Flier (HBO Movie)
1997 – Quicksilver Highway (segment Chattery Teeth)
1997 – Trucks (TV Remake of Maximum Overdrive)
1998 – Apt Pupil
1999 – The Green Mile
1999 – The Rage: Carrie 2
1999 – Storm of the Century (TV miniseries)
1999 – Llamadas (short film)
2000 – Paranoid(short film)
2001 – Hearts in Atlantis
2001 – Strawberry Spring (short film)
2002 – Rose Red (TV miniseries)
2002 – The Dead Zone (TV Series)
2002 – Night Surf (short film)
2002 – Rainy Season (short film)
2002 – Carrie (TV movie remake)
2003 – Dreamcatcher
2003 – The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (TV movie)
2003 – Autopsy Room Four (short film)
2003 – Here There Be Tygers (short film)
2003 – The Man in the Black Suit (short film)
2004 – Secret Window
2004 – Kingdom Hospital (TV series)
2004 – Salem’s Lot (TV miniseries)
2004 – Luckey Quarter (short film)
2004 – The Secret Transit Codes of America’s Highways (short film)
2004 – All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (short film)
2004 – Riding the Bullet
2005 – I Know What You Need (short film)
2006 – Desperation (TV miniseries)
2006 – Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the stories of Stephen King
2006 – Suffer the Little Children (short film)
2007 – 1408
2007 – The Mist
2007 – No Smoking (Bollywood movie)
2009 – Dolan’s Cadillac
2010 – The Haven (TV series based on the characters from The Colorado Kid)
2011 – Bag of Bones

Writing Style

King’s formula for learning to write well is: “Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can’t expect to become a good writer.” He sets out each day with a quota of 2000 words and will not stop writing until it is met. He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
Shortly after his accident, King wrote the first draft of the book Dreamcatcher with a notebook and a Waterman fountain pen, which he called “the world’s finest word processor.”
When asked why he writes, King responds: “The answer to that is fairly simple—there was nothing else I was made to do. I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. That’s why I do it. I really can’t imagine doing anything else and I can’t imagine not doing what I do.” He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question: “Why do you assume I have a choice?”
King often uses authors as characters, or includes mention of fictional books in his stories, novellas and novels, such as Paul Sheldon who is the main character in Misery and Jack Torrance in The Shining. See also List of fictional books in the works of Stephen King for a complete list. In September 2009 it was announced he would serve as a writer for Fangoria.

Early Life of The Horror King

King’s father, Donald Edwin King, who was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, was a merchant seaman. King’s mother, Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury; March 13, 1913 – December 28, 1973) was born in Scarborough, Maine. They were married July 23, 1939, in Cumberland County, Maine.
Stephen Edwin King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of “going to buy a pack of cigarettes”, leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. When King was eleven years old, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where Ruth King cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist.
As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend’s death. Some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of King’s darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing.
King’s primary inspiration for writing horror fiction was related in detail in his 1981 non-fiction Danse Macabre, in a chapter titled “An Annoying Autobiographical Pause”. King makes a comparison of his uncle successfully dowsing for water using the bough of an apple branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. While browsing through an attic with his elder brother, King uncovered a paperback version of an H. P. Lovecraft collection of short stories entitled The Lurker in the Shadows that had belonged to his father. The cover art—an illustration of a yellow-green Demon hiding within the recesses of a Hellish cavern beneath a tombstone—was, he writes, the moment in his life which “that interior dowsing rod responded to.” King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, “I knew that I’d found home when I read that book.

Stephen King and his masterpiece “It”

It (also referred to as Stephen King’s IT) is a 1990 horror-thriller fantasy mystery miniseries based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The story revolves around an inter-dimensional predatory life-form, which has the ability to transform itself into its prey’s worst fears allowing it to exploit the phobias of its victims. It mostly takes the form of a sadistic, wisecracking clown called “Pennywise the Dancing Clown”. The main protagonists are “The Losers Club” a group of social outcasts who discover Pennywise and vow to destroy him by any means necessary. The series takes place over two different time periods, the first when the Losers first discover Pennywise as children, and the second when they’re called back as adults to defeat Pennywise, who has resurfaced. It aired as a two-part television movie on November 18 and November 20, 1990 on ABC, and loosely follows the plot of the novel. The miniseries was filmed in New Westminster, British Columbia in late 1989. The film’s all star cast includes Dennis Christopher, Annette O’Toole, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Michael Cole, and Tim Curry as the evil Pennywise. Argentinian actress Olivia Hussey appears as Audra, Bill Denbrough’s wife

Who is Stephen King?

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror , suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. King has published 50 novels, including seven under the pen-name of RIchard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written nearly twohunder, short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy SocietyAwards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and his short story “The Man in the Black Suit” received the O. Henry Award. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from theMystery Writers of America (2007).