Stephen King: The King Of Terror

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a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a
big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse
Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: �After my
father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.� My
brother and I didn't see a great deal of her over the next nine years.
She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.� Stephen's first
outlooks on life were influenced by his older brother and what he figured
out on his own. While young Stephen and his family moved around the North
Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven years old, they 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 ...

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force, and I still think, for all his
shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet
produced�(Beaham 22). In many of Lovecraft's writings he always used his
present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed
in his footsteps with the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Castle
Rock is a combination of several towns that King moved to and from with
his family in his childhood. The main town that it resembles is that of
Durham, Maine. It was after the exposure to H. P. Lovecraft's stories
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 ...

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