Stephen King

The Colorado Kid is something different from the normal horror story. This story was written for the Hard Case Crime and it was finishing the epic series of The Dark Tower. The novel was published only in a paper form and was favor for the pulp novel of the 50s and 60s.
Stephen does not try to discover something new in the hardboiled mystery by telling the story of investigation of the body of unknown man in Maine. It is not the first novel where King tells about the murder which is covers by some investigations. For example, in Delores Claiborne there is a woman under the investigation for the death of her employer. But the fans of the author may be cold when reading the Colorado Kid.
King is a real master of the horror novel and he has connected the genres of drama and horror, and the common novel turns into a horrific. But The Colorado Kid without some elements of horror and drama is not so effective as the other novels. It is not clear why King has written it in such way. It may be because of the shortness of the story or the author was in a hurry.
The story does not differ from the classic storyline which tells about a new investigator and old investigation of the unknown body. However, the reader does not get the full information about this body throughout the novel. You will get the story which does not rise the old story of Cold Case.
Still the fans may be curious how the author uses the mystery without any supernatural things and some evil corners of a human. But these elements hide the whole fate of the novel and the novel may be forgotten among the other works of King.

Gerald´s Game is one more story about the isolation. This theme is old and maybe King´s favourite. These are a few survivors of the revolt of Captain Tripps in The Stand, inhabitants of the town who tried to save themselves from the vampires in Salem´s Lot. In Gerald´s Game the author describes the loneliness and there is only one character Jessie Burlingame. She wants to release herself from handcuffs which were used in sex game.
Jessie is tired of the sexual games of her husbands and she wants to strike out the husband. When she is handcuffed in their summer houses, she kicks him to the groin and her husband, Gerald, has a fatal heart attack. So Jessie is left alone without any changes to escape.
Being in such condition she feels loneliness and then dementia occurs. She sees how the body of the husband is devoured by stray dogs and then she has hallucinations which are caused by hunger. Having this dementia she thinks over her life, the origin of unhappiness which is connected with men.
Reading the story further a reader may make a conclusion that the end of the story will be bloody and horrible and it can be expected from the author. In some moments the reader may believe in the way out of this situation but King does not give it to the reader and describes unexpected end.
Gerald´s Game can be compared with another King´s novel which also shows a woman struggle, Delores Claiborne, with oppressive male figure. But Gerald´s Game is not the same, it has its own features and the readers will be eager to find out fate of Jessie.

Every famous writer receives constant and similar questions almost every day. And Stephen King is not an exception. These are the questions where do you find the ideas for the story? Why did you become a writer? Is it difficult to write?
Finally after years of hard working King provides the answers to these eternal questions. These answers are a good example of excellent fiction for the other writers. Stephen King creates autobiography story On Writing. Earlier King has opened the horror genre for readers and On Writing is an access for readers into King´s world.
This story is partially autobiography and partially the guide for the writers. The author describes how he became a writer, his merits and demerits. Stephen King gives the possibility to the reader to have a look into his life.
The story contains all part of the life: the drugs, the missed deadline and depression. The author tells the story with passion and as if the world is going crazy with the Superflu like in The Stand. But there is no remorse in his voice, he understands that all his lows make the story sweeter and give the greater payoff.
The author does not even been irritated when it comes about all his personal failures in this story. He says that if you do not have enough time for reading, you do not have time for writing. A reader will realize how King keeps his word.
On Writing does not have the recipe of the successful writer. It has wisdom words and a reader who wants to find a secret of writing and being famous novelist will be disappointed. But the majority of readers will enjoy it and appreciate brevity and the honesty of the author.

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It seems that King is fond of kinesis in the young women. And the first novel about this was Carrie. It is the story about a girl who using her mind makes things real.
Firestarter is a story about Charlie McGee. This is a young girl who has an ability to make fire using her mind. She hates this ability and she has got it because of the experiment which was conducted on her parents before the birth. She has a brother Andy and he is also has some powers of telekinesis but they are not so strong as in Charlie.
And it is understandable that the agency which has conducted such experiment will want to use the powers of Charlie. Their mother is murdered and Andy and Charlie run to avoid this agency which wants to make Charlie an experimental rat.
Andy and Charlie just have tried to escape but they are caught by agents in the lead of John Rainbird. And Charlie fights with them and she does not want to use her powers. But she is forced to use it.
Firestarter is not the first story which concerns the government. The novel The Stand is also about the government and the author describes it as evil thing in the Bachman books (The Long Walk and The Running Man).
And it is not surprise that some readers and movie0wathers will see similarities in Firestarter. It is ability of Charlie who wants to escape it because it causes harm for human population. This novel is another example of the talent of King who has made a story using different genres such as horror, science fiction and suspense. Readers will not stop until they read the last letters of this novel. It is very excited.

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After reading The Dark Half by Stephen King, it is worth thinking about, whether this novel was a farewell to Richard Bachman, King´s pen name, or not. The novel does not have an image of Richard Bachman; however, it is dedicated to him indeed. Comparing The Regulators by Bachman and Desperation by King, you should concern, whether King really struggles with the alter ego within pages of novel.
The Dark Half is one of the best novels of Stephen King. It is a story about a writer, Thad Beaumont. After medical examination, a tumor was detected within his brain and he goes into surgical procedure. Tumor was remains of not completely absorbed twin during prenatal development. Reading the novel suggests that this is a psychotic diary of King´s creative life. Events described in the novel occur in a city of Ludlow, those who read King´s Pet Sematary find this story is very familiar.
Novels written by Thad have a partial success. However, he writes the stories under his pen name George Stark that have truly prominence. The shocking and violent novels written under his pen name are swallowed up by the readership. When it is learned that Thad Beaumont is Stark, he and his wife decide to organize a fake funeral for the apparently unreal Stark. However, Thad has not a hunch that George Stark is alive and is ready to combat to preserve his existence.
Thad and Stark´s DNA and appearance coincide completely. The same literary method King practices in other stories Secret Window and Secret Garden in Four Past Midnight. Therefore, when Stark goes on a murdering everyone, he perceives, is responsible for his “death”, Thad is under suspicion. Contrasting Mort Rainey of Secret Window, Secret Garden, and Thad understands that Stark is a threat to his career and his life. He decides to stop Stark once for all.
King´s own dreads of writing injecting into a dramatic and dark story make The Dark Half is a true accomplishment for him. It is not the issue here whether things end happily or not. One will be rewarded reading The Dark Half. Nevertheless, the reward might be too far from what one would expect it to be.

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A 9 year old Trisha McFarland is introduced to readers in this story. She is rather clever and has a bright imagination. Trisha is a big fan of the Red Sox and especially of the pitcher Tom Gordon. She was born in Boston but soon her parents divorced and they (her mother, her brother Pete and Trisha) go to Maine. But this move was not good for their family and rift within the lute appeared between them. Quarrels were regular and the mother decodes to send her children to weekend field trips in order to make them closer.
However this action only sharpened their situation and tension was growing. One weekend they go hiking along the Appalachian Trail and the trip occurred with complaints from her brother and the mother tried to be excited about the hike. Trisha lags behind her family and stops in the wood and is lost in it.
Trisha was getting lost deeper in the wood and she faced rivers, wasps, marshes, rain and of course night. The dark nights were the most terrible and she overcame it because of her walkman in the backpack. Due to it she was connected with her Red Sox and Tom Gordon. But the voice of Res Sox was not the only one she heard. She heard an ominous voice which was warning her of some strange thing in the wood. This thing was looking for her and she tries to see around and look for this thing. She saw dead animals, the marks of claw on the trees and some noises at night. She tries to find consolation in the voice of Tom Gordon. He was like her friend and protected her but would he safe Trisha from the beast in the wood? Would she get out of there?
The Girls who Loves Tom Gordon is an excellent thriller which shows a strong main character Trisha who is only 9 years old and readers will like her very much. The struggle in the wood will help Trisha to believe in herself, find her faith in Tom Gordon and faith that everything will be all right.

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Everything´s Eventual includes 14 stories or as they are called dark tales. It is one of the other collections such as Skeleton Crew and Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
These 14 stories are web published work of Stephen King and are included to the audio collection Blood & Smoke.
Each story contains everything what a real fan of horrors need. These are desperation, horror, and little hope. The fans of the author will be pleased reading these stories because they take into account the concepts from the other, earlier, works.
The main character of Everything´s Eventual is Dinky Earnshaw who is met later in the Dark Tower series. He gets new job. He has an ability to draw causing suicide of a person. This is a gift which Dinky does not like but the other use it for themselves. He works on a person and he does not know all plans of this persons. Dinky is just doing his job and he gets a house, a car, money and other luxurious things. He does not put any questions. But the fans who read Needful Things of King understand that there´s no such thing as a free lunch and everything has its own price. And the reader is right.
Everything´s Eventual has something mundane, life circumstances like in L.T.´s Theory of Pets. There is an idea to give pets as a gift and this event make leave the characters in a horrible predicament.
Everything´s Eventual is a classic work of the author and gives some connection with the other works of King. These tales are really dark but they are mused at the same time. You will not stop until you read all pages of the stories and you will not miss any of them.

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They say that if an author is talented, then it is possible for him/her to be honest and make the story itself come to life. The sixth installation of Dark Tower novel Song of Susannah breaks, stretches and conquers this a kind of a rule of the authors.
When the readers are left in the lurch in the series of Wolves of the Calla, here there are the members of Roland´s ka-tet and the worlds in the Dark Tower and our world are in danger. And now in our world, in 1977, Roland and his ka-tet should clean this mess up which has become greater than it was before.
Firstly, Susannah who was left to the machinations of Mia in Wolves of the Calla is a pregnant woman wanted to give birth to the promised child. Then it turns out that this child is a child of Susannah and Roland of Gilead. Susannah was mysteriously getting pregnant because Roland and Susannah have never been intimately connected.
Mia tries to protect the body of Susannah and she barracks herself in a restaurant which is called the Dixie Pig, and Eddie and Roland try to save the rose which grows in a vacant lot in the metropolis of New York. Calvin Tower owns the lot and is in danger to fall into the wrong hands, and as a result the world is in danger.
The storyline is getting interesting when a man tries to claim the ownership of the vacant lot, and Eddie and Roland get to know about the author Stephen King. Roland and Eddie indentifies the author of the book Salem´s Lot which us recognized prehistory of their friend Father Callahan.
King really breaks the rules introducing the readers into his word and he uses himself in the story as a young writer. He starts to write epic series of his first book which is called The Gunslinger. From this very moment the story is getting interesting.
If the things were worse in the Wolves of the Calla, then it would be irreparable in the story Song of Susannah which seems to have no way outs for the characters and this story make a reader hang and read the final conclusion of the series, The Dark Tower.

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Four Past Midnight is one collection of the stories by Stephen King such as Different Seasons and Hearts in Atlantis. Heart in Atlantis has only 2 novellas and 1 story. Four Past Midnight consists of 4 novellas which range from the most unusual to the human psyche examinations.
The Langoliers is the first story which checks the reality limits for King´s reader. The sleeping passengers survive on board after a vortex. When they try to find out what happened they understand that they should land the plane and come back home until they have time. This is a difficult task.
Secret Garden, Secret Window describes the abilities of human mind. Secret Window is a novella which is following the acts of Mort Rainey. The novella is the inspiration for the film of Johnny Depp. Some strange man visits Mort and after this visit the life of Mort has different events which check his personal truth.
The Library Police is the third novella and considers the question of overdue and lost books. But there is a payoff and the readers will get warning concerning library depts.
The Sun Dog is the final novella which resembles the classic Twilight Zone stories of Ray Bradbury and Rod Serling. A boy has a birthday and he gets a gift, a Polaroid Camera. Soon he finds out that this camera has its own mind and it takes pictures itself showing the boy the events.
Four Past Midnight collection shows a real love of classic science fiction. It makes a reader to think over some situations and the theme of this book. Each novella in the collection is extraordinary and unusual but some readers may not prefer such novellas.

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It is not surprise to find the novels of Stephen King in audio format. But the first time the author published some works only in audio format. It is known that King liked to record audio book of Bag of Bones and then he released Blood and Smoke only in this format.
Blood and Smoke includes 3 stories “1408”, “In the Deathroom” and “Lunch at the Gotham Café”. These stories have one common feature – smoking. Stephen King has concentrated on this bad habit not for the first time. For example, “Quitters, Inc.” which is in Night Shift collection is a short story about smoking and the smokers were able to see demons when they had nicotine in the blood stream.
The story “Lunch at the Gotham Café” was published at first but then it was added to the audio book. “In the Deathroom” and “1408” were made especially for the audio book. The story “Lunch at the Gotham Café” is weird reminiscent of the Rod Serling stories which belong to the classic Twilight Zone series. Steve Davis, the main character, meets his wife to finalize their divorce. Steve understands that there is something strange in the Gotham Café. Without this strange thing it would not be a real story of King.
The story “1404” corresponds to the classic one. Mike Enslin is a main character who is a writer. He braves to settle in the hotel room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. This room is famous for its suicides, and unlucky and strange circumstances occur with people who assigned this hotel room.
And the main character of the story “In the Deathroom” is Fletcher who experiences his antagonists’ torture and listeners wait for King’s words as the main hero craves for his last cigarette. These stories are a good example of King’s talent and the listeners will never guess the end of the story.

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