The Lost Work of Stephen King,9781559724692

The Lost Work of Stephen King

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ISBN13: 9781559724692
ISBN10: 1559724692
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-11-01
Publisher(s): Birch Lane Pr
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Summary

From the author of "The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia" comes this unique guide to unpublished manuscripts, story fragments, alternate versions and oddities of the master of macabre, Stephen King.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi(4)
Preface: The Hidden World of the Lost King xv(2)
Introduction: Welcome to Our Nightmare! xvii(2)
Stephen King: A Life in the Dread Zone, 1947-2000 xix
THE LOST WORK, 1956-the Present 3(288)
1. "Jhonathan and the Witches"
3(2)
2. People, Places, and Things
5(9)
3. "The Killer"
14(3)
4. The Aftermath
17(3)
5. "The Star Invaders"
20(3)
6. "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber"
23(3)
7. "The Glass Floor"
26(4)
8. "King's Garbage Truck"
30(35)
9. Sword in the Darkness
65(3)
10. "A Possible Fairy Tale"
68(4)
11. Slade
72(6)
12. "Squad D"
78(4)
13. "The Blue Air Compressor"
82(2)
14. "The Hardcase Speaks"
84(3)
15. Blaze
87(3)
16. "Weeds"
90(3)
17. "The Cat From Hell"
93(4)
18. Wimsey
97(3)
19. "The Night of the Tiger"
100(3)
20. "Man With a Belly"
103(4)
21. "The King Family and the Wicked Witch"
107(4)
22. "On Becoming a Brand Name"
111(4)
23. "Remembering John"
115(3)
24. "The Lawnmower Man"
118(4)
25. "Between Rock and a Soft Place"
122(3)
26. "My High School Horrors"
125(3)
27. Foreword to Harlan Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare
128(3)
28. The Cannibals
131(2)
29. "Skybar"
133(2)
30. "Peter Straub: An Informal Appreciation"
135(3)
31. "The Evil Dead: Why You Haven't Seen It Yet... And Why You Ought To"
138(3)
32. "Berni Wrightson: An Appreciation"
141(2)
33. "A Novelist's Perspective on Bangor"
143(3)
34. "The Leprechaun"
146(2)
35. "Dear Walden People"
148(3)
36. The Plant
151(8)
37. "On The Shining and Other Perpetrations"
159(4)
38. "Before the Play"
163(3)
39. "Horrors!"
166(3)
40. Silver Bullet
169(3)
41. "1984: A Bad Year If You Fear Friday the 13th"
172(3)
42. "My First Car"
175(2)
43. "Keyholes"
177(3)
44. "The Politics of Limited Editions"
180(4)
45. Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men
184(3)
46. "My Say"
187(4)
47. "Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye Rick"
191(3)
48. "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully--in Ten Minutes"
194(4)
49. "For the Birds"
198(2)
50. "Pinfall"
200(2)
51. "Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture"
202(3)
52. "How It Happened"
205(3)
53. "The Dreaded X"
208(4)
54. "My Ten Favorite Fantasy-Horror Novels" and "My Ten Favorite Fantasy-Horror Short Stories or Novellas"
212(3)
55. "A Postscript to Overdrive"
215(3)
56. "Why I Wrote The Eyes of the Dragon"
218(2)
57. "What's Scaring Stephen King"
220(2)
58. Foreword to Dave Marsh's Glory Days
222(2)
59. "Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader"
224(4)
60. "Entering the Rock Zone, or How I Happened to Marry a Rock Station From Outer Space"
228(3)
61. Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques
231(2)
62. "`Ever Et Raw Meat?' and Other Weird Questions"
233(3)
63. "Stephen King on Censorship"
236(2)
64. "What Stephen King Does for Love"
238(4)
65. An Evening at God's
242(3)
66. "How I Created Golden Years...and Spooked Dozens of TV Executives"
245(3)
67. "Perfect Games, Shared Memories"
248(3)
68. "The Book-Banners: Adventure in Censorship Is Stranger Than Fiction"
251(3)
69. Introduction to The Fugitive Recaptured: The 30th Anniversary Companion to a Television Classic
254(2)
70. "The Neighborhood of the Beast"
256(5)
71. Introduction to The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script
261(2)
72. Six Stories
263(9)
73. "Everything's Eventual"
272(2)
74. "The Wait is Over..."
274(3)
75. The "Almost" Stories
277(8)
76. king.com: Stephen King on the Internet
285(6)
The Final Word 291(1)
Appendixes 292
A: How to Become a Stephen King Collector 292(4)
B: The Royal Library: A Reader's Guide to the Work of Stephen King, from Carrie to Bag of Bones, 1974-98 296(33)
C: The King of Hollywood: Stephen King Movies, from 1976's Carrie to 1998's Storm of the Century 329(22)
D: Books About Stephen King 351(3)
E: Sources and Resources 354

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