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13 Page-Turning Stephen King Facts

The horror legend had a dark secret ... back in the '80s, at least.

13 Page-Turning Stephen King Facts

October 22, 2021

Stephen King has been an icon of horror for nearly 50 years, but considering he keeps writing books, the guy still must have some secrets, some dark parts of himself he hasn't written out across thousands of words. We won't speculate, but there's no doubt he's made rather a lot public, including some strange facts you might not have heard before.

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HE MADE IT UNDER A FAKE NAME Richard NOW THEY chman LISTEN WOULD NOW ROADWORK HE HAD HIM THE GUN RUNNING The problem was complex, MAN the solution RICHARD simple killingly BACHMAN m FUTURE THE MARATH THE ULTIMATE COMPET R DOVEL OF MARABRE Long WAL RICHARD B RICHARD CRACKED He thought his success was dumb luck, SO in the '80s he wrote as Richard Bachman, who was SO popular he got found out. — Source: Kirkus Reviews

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IT'S ALL CONNECTED dangs CRACKED King's stories have been sharing a universe as soon as he started writing them: Carrie's mom works at the laundromat from The Mangler. — Source: Stephen King Link List

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HE COLLABORATED WITH MICHAEL JACKSON CRACKED After the success of Thriller, Jackson recruited King to make Ghosts, a cross between a movie and a music video compilation. — Source: Atlas Obscura

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YOU CAN BUY HIS MOVIE RIGHTS FOR $1 MERICA OF and C51571398F WASHINGTON,D STATES FED TENDER THEINITED LEGAL AND PRIVATE Vis THIS PUBLIC FOR CRACKED He turned some of his short stories into the Dollar Baby Program, SO amateur filmmakers can legally make movies out of them. — Source: StephenKing.com

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HE WROTE A WHOLE BOOK IN A WEEK CRACKED The Running Man, a sci-fi dystopia he wrote as Richard Bachman, was sent off to the publishers after less than ten days of work. — Source: The Guardian

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HE WRITES SO MUCH HE'S FORGOTTEN BOOKS &Nuble CRACKED King has had struggles with addiction, but he's never struggled with writing, SO he has no memory of writing his killer dog book Cujo. — Source: The Guardian

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HE TRIED MAKING A MOVIE OF HIS WORK CRACKED In 1986, he directed a movie of his story Maximum Overdrive, about trucks that come to life, with nothing but AC/DC on the soundtrack. — Source: IMDB

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HE BANNED ONE OF HIS OWN BOOKS 7645 RAGE NOVEL BY RICHARD BACHMAN HIS TWISTED MIND TURNED LOUIET CLASSROOMINTO/ THE SLY VOICES IN HIS MIND WHISPERED AC DANGEROUS WORLD TERROR. THEIR TERRIBLE WARNINGS, TELLING CHARLIE EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD TO DO... And one by one the students filed into the room, , laughing, talking. suspecting that today' class like no For r today Charlie would lead them in his RICHARD savagely dangerous of Show and Tell - and all their secrets would explode nightmare of violence and PAGE but CRACKED Apowerfully charged novel His novel Rage has been out of print since the '80s, since it's about — Source: Fox

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HE'S SUED BAD ADAPTATIONS AND WON ACCESS DENIED CRACKED When the movie of The Lawnmower Man changed basically everything about his story, he went to court and got his name off the film. — Source: EW

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PEOPLE GET MAD WHEN HE'S HONORED CRACKED Some literary critics are never happy when someone SO popular wins awards, but legendary scholar Harold Bloom carried a particular grudge against him. — Source: CNBC

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HIS WIFE SAVED HIS FIRST HIT FROM THE TRASH CRACKED Tabitha, King's wife of over 50 years, fished the first few pages of Carrie out of a wastebasket and convinced him to work on it. — Source: Mental Floss

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HE WROTE AN X-MENCOMIC CRACKED CYOLOPE As part of a charity drive, he wrote three issues of an official Marvel story that was also written by George R.R. Martin and Harlan Ellison. — Source: Comics.org

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PET SEMATARYALMOST HAPPENED FOR REAL CRACKED King refused to release his necromancy novel for years, since it was inspired by a truck running over his cat and nearly missing his son. — Source: Express

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