"Eventually, countless viewings over the years of such classic horror films as The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Thing, and It came from Outer Space convinced me that the horror movies chief value is its ability to form a liaison between our fantasy fears and our real fea

rs." The fortunate discovery of his fathers paperback collection of fantasy-horror fiction gave King, in his own words, "a taste of a world that went deeper than the B-pictures & or the boys fiction of Carl Carmer and Roy Rockwell." As a child Stephen King was surprised to find that his long-absent father had shared his interest in science fiction, but even more surprised to learn that Donald King wrote several horror stories and submitted them, to Bluebook, Argosy, and other magazines. Stephen King was determined to become a writer. While still a student at the local high school, he tried writing short stories. He never sold a single one, but he did win first prize in an essay competition sponsored by a scholastic magazine. He took time off from his studies to play on the varsity football team, and was, for several years, the rhythm guitari

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