Stephen King: The King Of Terror
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“If you have an imagination, let it run free.”
- Steven King, 1963
Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling
writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science
fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In
addition to these th ....
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1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his
adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's
father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to
buy 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 la ....
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