The Work Of Stephen King
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The main quality of literature in our society is its ability to
entertain the masses. Some authors use horror and mystery to keep their
reader's attention. Stephen King is the epitome of horror writers. In
writing horror mystery novels, Stephen King utilizes small towns, a unique
writing style, ....
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.... ordinary emotional situations and
translates them into violent tales of vampires and ghosts. "You never
have to ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro
220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else,
others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles),
closed in places, r ....
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