stephen king
Stephen King Stephen King is an unusual author. ... What or who got Stephen King interested in horror? What drives Stephen King to keep on writing novels from one to the next? ... At the age of four is when King was first introduced to Horror. ... “So that book, courtesy of my departed father, was my first taste of a world that went deeper than the B-picture which played at the movies on Saturday afternoon (King 2),” King states. Films, too, were an important influence for the young King. ... King wrote his first horror story when he was seven. ... King began submitting stories to magazines when he was twelve. King continues to work just as hard after his early achievements. ... I write six pages a day and that’s like engraved in stone (King 9),” King later stated. ... The insight, which King offers into the work of horror, is based upon a bimodal or dualistic vision, which insists upon the necessity of reading between lines. The first mode or level which king describes is the “gross out” level-i.