Stephen King, Bio

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moved to Stratford, Connecticut. Here is where King got his first exposure to horror. One evening he listened to the radio adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s story “Mars Is Heaven!” That night King recalls he “slept in the doorway, where the real and rational light of the bathroom bulb could shine on my face” (Beaham 16). Stephen King’s exposure to oral storytelling on the radio had a large impact on his later writings. King tells his stories in visual terms so that the reader would be able to “see” what was happening in their own mind, somewhat in the same fashion the way it was done on the radio (Beaham 17). King’s fascination with horror early on continued and was pushed along only a couple weeks after Bradbury’s story.
One day little Stephen was looking through his mother’s books and came across one named “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” After his mother finished reading the book to him, ...

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that King first began to write.

While growing up and moving around the way his family did, Stephen had never been able to feel comfortable and settle down in one place and make friends they way other kids his age did (Underwood 77). Around the age of twelve the King family finally settled in the town of Durham, Maine. For Stephen King, Durham was the place where his imagination began to shine. It was at this time that Stephen first began to make friends.

Along with his friends, Stephen would go the movies a lot. Stephen would
use the movies as a inspiration. Although he enjoyed going out and having fun,
whenever he would come home, Stephen would immediately write down ...

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