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. While young Stephen and his

family moved around the North Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven

years old they moved to Stratford, Connecticut. Here is where King got his first exposure

to horror. One evening he listened to the radio adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story

"Mars Is Heaven!" Stephen King's exposure to oral storytelling on the radio had a large

impact on his later writings. King tells his stories in visual terms so that the reader

would be able to "see" what was happening in their own mind, somewhat in the same

logic King subjects the reader to a harrowing tour of the lives of characters who

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