Horror Authors

Stephen King the unusual career of the 62 American travel writer Stephen King with more than 400 million books sold is considered one of the most successful authors of all time. In over 40 novels and more than 100 short stories, King shocks his readers with horror that hides behind the everyday lives of average people. In his horror stories, this horror in the seemingly ideal world is collapsing. Kings vectors of such scary messages are mostly clowns, simple shop owners or guardians of public order, an unknown which at first glance, that will break out soon the evil from them. Sometimes, Stephen Kings lives horror even in cars or lawnmowers.

Success began in the caravan of the published in 1974 and two years later filmed Roman Carrie of Satan’s daughter”, the King in a rented trailer wrote, was the starting point for its commercial success. Here, King threw the still unfinished manuscript from lack of conviction in the trash can. His wife fished there and persuaded her husband, the book to finish. Fortunately. King, belonging to as guitarist for a rock band still occurring, consists entirely of writers, published some works under various pseudonyms such as Richard Bachman and John Swithen. “” “” “Kings best known books include shining” (starring Jack Nicholson), it “, stand by me the secret of summer”, pet of Sematary”the lawnmower man”and The Green Mile”. The alcoholics back into the limelight of the first great success caressed by spinning the author from the mid-1980s in the alcohol addiction and also strongly attacked in the cocaine can.

With the help of his wife Tabitha and therapy, he managed the way back into the literary spotlight. in 1991, a fan but collapsed in his house in Maine and eight years later Stephen King was walking at the edge of the road from the car of a drunken driver captured and severely injured. He was in hospital for three weeks, was a local newspaper even declared dead. What followed, King was typical. He processed what happened in a novel (Dreamcatcher”), bought the car accident he destroyed on the anniversary of his accident. The unlucky driver Bryan Smith way, died in 2000 at the age of 43, on Kings birthday. As the horror King himself would have staged it. King caused in the Internet Stephen King on the Internet excitement, as he in the year 2000 his short story riding the bullet”for downloading on the Internet was (” 2004 filmed with us under the title coaster “known). More than 700,000 users clicked on the story. And early 2009 Kings short story was ur “among the audience. But only as E-books through Amazon.