by Lisa Rogak
241 “the most horrible, awful things that I can think about”: Highway Patrolman, July 1987.
242 “that’ll kick your ass every time”: The Mist press conference, November 13, 2007.
242 “it’s the teaspoon against the sea”: Portland Press Herald, June 4, 2006.
242 “on every gallon of gas you buy”: UMO commencement address, May 7, 2005.
242 “every time I sit down at a typewriter”: Time, October 6, 1986.
242 “He writes like old people fuck”: Guardian, September 14, 2000.
243 “That’s the bottom line”: Hollywood’s Stephen King, p. 5.
243 “it’s time to stop”: Castle Rock, April 1989.
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INDEX
Note: SK stands for Stephen King. Women are listed under their maiden names. Fictional characters are listed by first name, e.g., “Annie Wilkes.” Literary works cited are by King unless otherwise stated.
AA, 159, 167, 169
abortion, SK’s view of, 48–49, 54–55
Abrams, J. J., 233
Adam magazine, 58, 63
Adams, Graham, 44
addictive behavior, SK’s, 2, 114
advances and royalties, economics of, 191
affairs, SK’s attitude toward, 113–14
African-Americans, 84
agents, literary, SK’s, 81, 160
AIDS epidemic, 88
alcoholism
in families, 96
SK’s, 85, 156–60
Alfred A. Knopf, 161
Allison, Susan, 232
Alpert, Michael, 41
Amazon, 211
American Booksellers Association (ABA), 171–72, 179
American Express, 132–33
Andrew, Tom, 170
Annie Wilkes character, 152–53, 230
anthologies, star billing of SK in, 134
Anthony, Piers, 81
Archer, Jeffrey, 242
Archies, 49
Ardai, Charles, 229
Attias, Daniel, 131
audiobooks, 236
Augusta, Maine, 102
autographs, 177–78
Bachman, Richard (pseudonym), 84, 86, 87, 89, 98–99, 117, 121, 123, 124, 137–39, 189–90
nature of books, 138–39
outing of and “death” of, 138–39, 189–90
The Bachman Books, 140, 143
Bachman-Turner Overdrive, 84
Bag of Bones (book), 190, 191–92, 225
Bag of Bones (miniseries), 200
Baker, Matt, 202
Baldacci, David, 240
Baldwin, James, 81
Bambi (movie), 17
Bangor, Maine, 6, 53, 58, 67, 70, 75, 97, 101–5, 129, 134–35, 140, 143–44, 164, 223, 237
Kings’ house in, 164–66, 170–71, 218–19, 237
Bangor Daily News, 135, 138
Bankford, Bob, 74
banned books, 84
Barnes & Noble, 211
Barry, Dave, 171, 172, 177, 214, 235
Barrymore, Drew, 132
baseball, 150, 219–20
bats, 104
“Battleground,” 64, 86
B. Dalton’s, 138
BDD publishers, 162
Beah
m, George, 23, 82
Beatles, the, 49
beer, SK’s drinking of, 97, 131
beer cans, as movie props, 141
Ben Mears character, 76
Bertelsmann, 162
The Best American Mystery Stories, 237
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, 217
Best American Short Stories, 237–38
biographies, authorized and unauthorized, 6–7
birth control, SK’s view of, 48–49
Bishop, Jim, 41, 43, 52
Black House (collaboration with Peter Straub), 201, 209–10, 212, 217–18
Blaze (Bachman), 236–37
Bloch, Robert, 43
Block, Lawrence, 218
Blood, Sweat, and Tears, 49
Bloom, Harold, 224
Bloomsbury publisher, 227
blurbs, by SK, 116
“The Body,” 119–20
bondage games, 168–69
The Boogeyman (film), 116
BookExpo America (BEA), 235
book signings, 97
Boston, Mass., 128, 150
Boulder, Colo., 77, 80, 101
Bowden, Helen A. (SK’s grandmother), 9
Boy Scouts, 29
Bradbury, Ray, 15, 98
Braffet, Kelly (SK’s daughter-in-law), 227
Bram Stoker Award, 190, 226
brand names, SK’s use of, in writings, 107
Brewer, Maine, 58
Bridgton, Maine, 239
Bright, David, 47
Brodie, Deborah, 151–52
Brown, Stephen P., 138
Browning, Robert, 55
Brunswick High School, 66
Bug Bunny cartoons, 98
“Bunghoney” (TV episode), 197
buried-alive stories, 239
Campbell, Glen, 49
Canadian Booksellers Association, 235
Cancer (working title), 217
Candles Burning (Tabitha Spruce King), 232
Caretakers (Tabitha Spruce King), 128
Carneal, Michael, 194
Carrie (book), 4, 5, 32, 80, 82, 107, 112
fame of, 3
publication of, 77
sale of, 71–74
writing of, 29, 66–67
Carrie (movie), 81–82
Carrie character, 66–67
cars
accidents with, 209
evil, 120, 125–26, 221
cars, SK’s
new, 72, 77
not having one, in high school, 34–35
old, dilapidated, 62, 112
Carter, Chris, 197
Cash, Johnny, 155
castle, 161
Castle of Frankenstein comics, 15
Castle Rock, Maine (fictional), 99, 167
Castle Rock Entertainment, 176
Castle Rock newsletter, 140, 149, 152, 153, 161
“The Cat from Hell,” 85–86
Cavalier magazine, 55, 60–61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 71, 85–86, 177
Celebrity Jeopardy!, 197
celebrity status, 3, 90
and desire for anonymity, 185–86
Cell, 229–30
Cemetery Dance magazine, 170
censorship
SK’s opposition to, 135, 142
by TV networks, 133, 194, 200
Center Lovell, Maine, 90, 101
Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, Maine, 203–5, 216
Cerf, Bennett, 41
Chabon, Michael, 225
Chapman, Mark, 108–9
charity, SK giving to, 148–49, 169, 236–37, 242
Charles P. Brown House, Bangor, Maine, 237
Charlie McGee character, 107, 132
“Chattery Teeth,” 170
Chesley, Chris, 23–24, 36, 121
Chicago, Illinois, 10, 11, 12, 42
child abuse, 168
childhood
remembering what it was like, 145, 147
SK’s, 7
children
SK’s fear of something bad happening to them, 87, 94, 144
SK’s reason for having them, 107
SK’s writing for, 151–52
Tabby’s method of raising, 111
traumatized, SK’s books about, 147
violence toward, censored by TV networks, 194
“Children of the Corn,” 86, 136
Children of the Corn (movies), 174
Chizmar, Richard, 170
Christine (book), 120, 125, 221
Christine (movie), 125–26
Chute, Carolyn, 167
cigarette smoking, SK’s, 241
Clancy, Tom, 190, 212, 240
Clayton, Uncle, 24
cocaine, 96–97, 131, 142, 160
“Code Name: Mousetrap,” 34
Coffee House, Orono, 49
collectors, 135–36
college students
in the 1960s, 44–45
SK’s view of, 92
Collings, Michael, 124, 146–47
Colorado, SK’s stay in, 77–78, 80
The Colorado Kid, 229
Columbia University, 226–27
Columbine High School massacre, 194–95
comic-book format, 233
Comics Review, 33–34
commercial endorsements, by SK, 132–33
Commercial Union York Insurance, 216
completist collectors, 135
Conference on the Fantastic and the Arts, Fifth International, 136
conventions, SK’s attendance at, 136
cops, SK’s view of, 48
Corman, Roger, 211
Cosmopolitan magazine, 65
“The Crate,” 98, 117
creative writing programs, 227
SK’s teaching of, 91–92
Creepshow (movie), 117–19, 156
critics
advice to listen to them, 174
disdain for popular fiction, 219
Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., 10
Crystal, Billy, 235
Cujo, 138, 168
limited edition of, 114
writing of, 2, 112–14
Cycle of the Werewolf, 131
Danse Macabre, 112
Darabont, Frank, 175–76, 196, 208, 233, 239
Dark Forces, 239
The Dark Half, 161
The Dark Tower (final book of series), 220
Dark Tower series, 56, 166, 187, 190, 200, 212, 214, 220, 222
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 148
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, 233
Dawn of the Dead (movie, by Romero), 135
dead bodies, SK’s familiarity with, as child, 21, 33, 37
Dead White Men literature, 43
The Dead Zone (book), 94, 116
publication of, 99
The Dead Zone (movie), 126–27
DeFillipo, Marsha, 6
De Laurentiis, Dino, 126, 132, 140–41
Democratic National Convention (1968), 42
De Palma, Brian, 82
Depression, Great, 9
Desperation, 188–89, 240
DeWalt, Maurice, 60
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red (prequel by Ridley Pearson), 218–19
Dick, Philip K., 189
Different Seasons, 119
divorce, 14
dogs, 112–13
Dolan’s Cadillac, 161, 177
Dollar Babies (noncommercial films supported by SK), 116, 176
Dolores Claiborne (book), 173–74, 179
Dolores Claiborne (movie), 184
Dosen, Alma, 93
Doubleday, 59–60, 63, 67, 71–76, 83, 86, 87–89, 111, 129, 162
SK’s contract with, 88–89, 122–23
doughnuts, 62
Doyle, Conan, 200
Dracula (Stoker), 67
draft, military, 50–51
Dreamcatcher, 206, 209, 212, 216–17
Drew University, 38
drinking
as escape, 70
S
K’s, 69–70
underage, 36–38
drugs
on college campuses, in 1960s, 44–45
getting off, cold turkey, 158–60, 208
in media world, in 1970s, 96
SK’s use of, 45, 96–97
The Drum (high school newspaper), 34
Duma Key, 239–40
du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca, 191
Dunkin’ Donuts, 62
Durham, Maine, 10, 27, 68, 77, 99
Durham Elementary School, 27
Dutton, 189
Dylan, Bob, 36, 49
ear doctor, SK’s bad experience with, 14
Eastern Maine Medical Center, 169
Ebert, Roger, 127, 132, 208
e-books, 210–12
E.C. Comics, 15–16, 117
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 238
Ellis, Bret Easton, 228
Eminem, 223
emotional control, New Englanders’, 16
Emperor’s New Clothes syndrome (SK’s insight), 141
England, SK’s stay in, 90
Entertainment Weekly, SK’s column in, 222, 240
ESP, SK’s belief in, 105
Estes Park, Colo., 77–78
Everest House, 111
Everything’s Eventual (collection), 220, 238
The Exorcist (book and movie), 71
The Eyes of the Dragon, 148, 151–52, 211
facts, SK often wrong about, in his writing, 5–6
fairy tales, 146
fans, 90, 94, 140, 177–78
dangerous, 108–9, 136, 152–53, 170, 217, 236
questions about SK’s childhood experiences, 106–7
SK’s thoughts on, 153
fantasy, SK’s attraction to, 55–56
father
of an author, unconscious writing for, 123
SK as, 115
fatherhood, SK on, 78–79, 87, 115
Father Knows Best, 78
“Father’s Day,” 117
Fat Man and Ribbon (high school play), 39
Faulkner, William, 43
Fayed, Dodi, 132
FBI, 195
fears, of SK, 1–2, 144, 195–96, 214, 241
fence, SK’s, in Bangor, 104
Feury, Jim (Mighty John Marshall), 129
“The Fifth Quarter,” 64, 177
fire, SK’s love of, 88
Firestarter (book), 116, 147
publication of, 107
writing of, 95
Firestarter (movie), 132
SK’s dissatisfaction with, 132
First Universalist Church, Yarmouth, Maine, 192, 228
Fish, Jim, 82
Fitzgerald, F-stop, 160
Flaws, Oren, 11, 19
“The Float,” 58
Florida, 233
flush toilets, 27
flying, fear of, 195–96
Fogg, Nellie Weston (grandmother), 8–9, 19, 21
death of, 33
Fort Wayne, Ind., 11, 12
“The 43rd Dream,” 34