The Lost Work of Stephen King

From the author of "The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia" comes this unique guide to unpublished manuscripts, story fragments, alternate versions and oddities of the master of macabre, Stephen King.

Acknowledgments

xi

(4)

Preface: The Hidden World of the Lost King

xv

(2)

Introduction: Welcome to Our Nightmare!

xvii

(2)

Stephen King: A Life in the Dread Zone, 1947-2000

xix

THE LOST WORK, 1956-the Present

3

(288)

1. "Jhonathan and the Witches"

3

(2)

2. People, Places, and Things

5

(9)

3. "The Killer"

14

(3)

4. The Aftermath

17

(3)

5. "The Star Invaders"

20

(3)

6. "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber"

23

(3)

7. "The Glass Floor"

26

(4)

8. "King's Garbage Truck"

30

(35)

9. Sword in the Darkness

65

(3)

10. "A Possible Fairy Tale"

68

(4)

11. Slade

72

(6)

12. "Squad D"

78

(4)

13. "The Blue Air Compressor"

82

(2)

14. "The Hardcase Speaks"

84

(3)

15. Blaze

87

(3)

16. "Weeds"

90

(3)

17. "The Cat From Hell"

93

(4)

18. Wimsey

97

(3)

19. "The Night of the Tiger"

100

(3)

20. "Man With a Belly"

103

(4)

21. "The King Family and the Wicked Witch"

107

(4)

22. "On Becoming a Brand Name"

111

(4)

23. "Remembering John"

115

(3)

24. "The Lawnmower Man"

118

(4)

25. "Between Rock and a Soft Place"

122

(3)

26. "My High School Horrors"

125

(3)

27. Foreword to Harlan Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare

128

(3)

28. The Cannibals

131

(2)

29. "Skybar"

133

(2)

30. "Peter Straub: An Informal Appreciation"

135

(3)

31. "The Evil Dead: Why You Haven't Seen It Yet... And Why You Ought To"

138

(3)

32. "Berni Wrightson: An Appreciation"

141

(2)

33. "A Novelist's Perspective on Bangor"

143

(3)

34. "The Leprechaun"

146

(2)

35. "Dear Walden People"

148

(3)

36. The Plant

151

(8)

37. "On The Shining and Other Perpetrations"

159

(4)

38. "Before the Play"

163

(3)

39. "Horrors!"

166

(3)

40. Silver Bullet

169

(3)

41. "1984: A Bad Year If You Fear Friday the 13th"

172

(3)

42. "My First Car"

175

(2)

43. "Keyholes"

177

(3)

44. "The Politics of Limited Editions"

180

(4)

45. Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men

184

(3)

46. "My Say"

187

(4)

47. "Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye Rick"

191

(3)

48. "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully--in Ten Minutes"

194

(4)

49. "For the Birds"

198

(2)

50. "Pinfall"

200

(2)

51. "Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture"

202

(3)

52. "How It Happened"

205

(3)

53. "The Dreaded X"

208

(4)

54. "My Ten Favorite Fantasy-Horror Novels" and "My Ten Favorite Fantasy-Horror Short Stories or Novellas"

212

(3)

55. "A Postscript to Overdrive"

215

(3)

56. "Why I Wrote The Eyes of the Dragon"

218

(2)

57. "What's Scaring Stephen King"

220

(2)

58. Foreword to Dave Marsh's Glory Days

222

(2)

59. "Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader"

224

(4)

60. "Entering the Rock Zone, or How I Happened to Marry a Rock Station From Outer Space"

228

(3)

61. Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques

231

(2)

62. "`Ever Et Raw Meat?' and Other Weird Questions"

233

(3)

63. "Stephen King on Censorship"

236

(2)

64. "What Stephen King Does for Love"

238

(4)

65. An Evening at God's

242

(3)

66. "How I Created Golden Years...and Spooked Dozens of TV Executives"

245

(3)

67. "Perfect Games, Shared Memories"

248

(3)

68. "The Book-Banners: Adventure in Censorship Is Stranger Than Fiction"

251

(3)

69. Introduction to The Fugitive Recaptured: The 30th Anniversary Companion to a Television Classic

254

(2)

70. "The Neighborhood of the Beast"

256

(5)

71. Introduction to The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script

261

(2)

72. Six Stories

263

(9)

73. "Everything's Eventual"

272

(2)

74. "The Wait is Over..."

274

(3)

75. The "Almost" Stories

277

(8)

76. king.com: Stephen King on the Internet

285

(6)

The Final Word

291

(1)

Appendixes

292

A: How to Become a Stephen King Collector

292

(4)

B: The Royal Library: A Reader's Guide to the Work of Stephen King, from Carrie to Bag of Bones, 1974-98

296

(33)

C: The King of Hollywood: Stephen King Movies, from 1976's Carrie to 1998's Storm of the Century

329

(22)

D: Books About Stephen King

351

(3)

E: Sources and Resources

354

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The Lost Work of Stephen King

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