Stephen King: The King Of Terror

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had a big indirect impact
on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King
recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother,
struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn't see a great
deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low
paying jobs.” Stephen's first outlooks on life were influenced by his older
brother and what he figured out on his own. 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!” That night King recalls he “slept in the
doorway, where the real and rational light of the bathroom bulb could shine on
my face” (Beaham 16). Stephen King's exposure to oral storytelling on the
radio had a large impact on his ...

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of horror fiction that America has yet produced”(Beaham 22). In many of
Lovecraft's writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of
his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional town of
Castle Rock, Maine. Castle Rock is a combination of several towns that King
moved to and from with his family in his childhood. The main town that it
resembles is that of Durham, Maine. It was after the exposure to H. P.
Lovecraft's stories that King first began to write.
While growing up and moving around the way his family did, Stephen had
never been able to feel comfortable and settle down in one place and make
friends they way other kids ...

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