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Stephen King Research Paper

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Kenneth Denicola
Professor Phelan
English 102
6 June 2018
The King Of Horror Stephen King
Stephen King is known to be one of the best horror writers out there. Born in Portland Maine Stephen King was raised by a single mother named Nellie Ruth. Stephens father Donald Edwin disappeared one night after saying he was stepping out for cigarettes then never return home. So Stephen never saw his father again and him and his mother were on their own. After the father abandon them they decided to move a settle down in Stratford Connecticut but would move back to Main when he was eleven. From there Stephen would go on and graduate from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. Later on in life he says “I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks …show more content…

In his spare time he was working on a novel called “Carrier” published in 1974, which was about as young girl bullied at school and a discovery that she has telekinetic powers. She uses these powers to get revenge on the people that bullied her. Carrier was Stephen King's first published paper and sold over 30,000 copies. His next novel he wrote made him known around the world “The Shining”.The Shining was about a hotel closing down for the winter “Overlook Hotel” , when the hotel maintainer Jack Torrance gets comply possessed a evil spirit. Jack becomes a monster under control by this spirit and says “This inhuman place makes human monsters” (King 144). Eventually they made a movie off the novel in 1980 which was a huge hit at the time. And the most known scene from the movie is when Jack breaks through the door and say “Here's Johnny”!. In present today The Shining is used as a foundation and guid for horror writers. This is when Stephen's writing career really took …show more content…

He wrote “Salem's Lost” which was nominated for best novel in 1976, “Pet Sematary” was another famous novel that he wrote and later on became a movie, Also another well known novel was “The Green Mile” and became a movie later that starred Tom Hanks. Throughout his whole career he wrote a total of 131 books and novels and many of them became moveis many years later. His novels get translated in over 33 languages and published in over 35 countries. Stephen King is truly a “master of horror” and provide us of what horror stories should be. In 1999 King got into a accident he was walking beside a highway were a car hit him which left him in critical condition. He had injuries to his lungs,broken ribs, broken legs, and a badly fractured hip. During his recovery couldn't sit more than 40 min without having pain, this made writing very hard for him but he eventually

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