He recalled in his autobiographical work "Danse Macabre" that he hardly remembers seeing his mother for the next nine years after his fathers disappearance. His mother worked as hard as she could just to make ends meet (Beahm 1) . When I learned about this particular struggle in Kings life I couldnt help but to empathize with him. I couldnt picture growing up without my father. I cant imagine how much emptiness he must have felt. Stephen Said that he was first introduced to horror when he was a meager seven years of age. He sat, one night, in the hallway next to his mothers room and he was eavesdropping on a radio show that his mother faithfully listened to every week. The show was a radio adaptation of Ray Bradburys story "Mars is Heaven." He said that he was terrified (King 116). He said "I slept in the doorway where the real and rational light of the bathroom could shine on my face." He also said that the radio show was worded in such ways that you actually "saw" what was happening (King 117). He says that he strives for that and from all of the works Ive read I can say he has done exactly that.If you talk to most people they would say that Kings first novel was "Carrie." I had originally thought this too. But it is definitely wrong. King had wrote and submitted four other novels before "Carrie," in 1974 (Winter 12). The four novels were written while King attended the University of Maine. The titles for the novels were, "Rage," "The Long Walk," "Roadwork," and "The Running Man." You might recognize these four books. They were the works written by the late Richard Bachman. Richard Bachman was actually just a pseudonym for Stephen King. King was settled in to multiple deals with publishers and had had three other novels in addition to the four mentioned above (Winter 12). The way he saw it those other books would not see print for at least five more years. So he came up with the idea of releasing them under a di...
