The horror genre is a severely underrated and neglected literary zone that not many writers choose to call home. Stephen King is an author who dares to face the odds, writing about what he truly enjoys, which has paid off for him in the end. If you have read any amount of King’s books, you can see a similarity in both tone and style. With over fifty works under his belt, including books, movie adaptations, and short stories, King has worked his way to the top, becoming one of his generation’s most celebrated authors. He escalated from printing twenty-five cent stories in his basement to New York Times Best Sellers. King tends to insert personal characteristics and experiences from his life into what he writes, along with recurring characters,
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If you wanted to learn more about the epitome of horror writing and intricate plot lines, you have come to the right place. People who do not wish to be encased in suspense and tales of mentally disturbing thoughts should not bother reading any of his novels. Almost every story involves some harmonious mixture of tragic accidents, murder, mental breakdowns, drug addiction, and profanity. When the first words of a book are an epigraph from H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Revival, or an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, on the first page of The Shining, some sort of horror can almost be guaranteed. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because once past the disturbingly graphic descriptions of death in some cases, one can become enraptured in a storyline with twists and turns unparalleled by King’s fiercest …show more content…
The series itself is comprised of eight books. King couldn’t just stop there. He created an intricate universe in which characters, numbers, and locations from the books are all connected within different dimensions. For instance, the character Randall Flagg, a powerful sorcerer, first appears in The Stand, which is a standalone story (stephenking.com). He makes guest appearances in several of the other novels, including The Dark Tower series books (The Wind Through the Keyhole). Along with the eight books of the series, there are sixteen additional works that connect majorly to the story line. These books include shared characters, numbers, and locations. Fifteen other books connect loosely with The Dark Tower series, only sharing the number nineteen, names of the main characters, and similar writing styles. It can become somewhat convoluted and confusing if you over think it, but it’s rather simple in all actuality. However, would you expect anything less from Stephen King? Rolling Stone magazine sat down with King in October of 2014 to discuss his life, books, and beliefs. He told of his time as a drug addict and alcoholic while critiquing other authors. As opinionated as King may be, no one can deny that he has to know what he’s talking about to have made it this far. From
If you wanted to learn more about the epitome of horror writing and intricate plot lines, you have come to the right place. People who do not wish to be encased in suspense and tales of mentally disturbing thoughts should not bother reading any of his novels. Almost every story involves some harmonious mixture of tragic accidents, murder, mental breakdowns, drug addiction, and profanity. When the first words of a book are an epigraph from H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Revival, or an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, on the first page of The Shining, some sort of horror can almost be guaranteed. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because once past the disturbingly graphic descriptions of death in some cases, one can become enraptured in a storyline with twists and turns unparalleled by King’s fiercest …show more content…
The series itself is comprised of eight books. King couldn’t just stop there. He created an intricate universe in which characters, numbers, and locations from the books are all connected within different dimensions. For instance, the character Randall Flagg, a powerful sorcerer, first appears in The Stand, which is a standalone story (stephenking.com). He makes guest appearances in several of the other novels, including The Dark Tower series books (The Wind Through the Keyhole). Along with the eight books of the series, there are sixteen additional works that connect majorly to the story line. These books include shared characters, numbers, and locations. Fifteen other books connect loosely with The Dark Tower series, only sharing the number nineteen, names of the main characters, and similar writing styles. It can become somewhat convoluted and confusing if you over think it, but it’s rather simple in all actuality. However, would you expect anything less from Stephen King? Rolling Stone magazine sat down with King in October of 2014 to discuss his life, books, and beliefs. He told of his time as a drug addict and alcoholic while critiquing other authors. As opinionated as King may be, no one can deny that he has to know what he’s talking about to have made it this far. From