Stephen Edwin King - The King Of Terror

Stephen Edwin King - The King Of Terror The King of TerrorStephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers.King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal,and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks tousing great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen Kingwho is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different types ofwritings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, autobiographies, children's books, and shortstories. While Stephen King might be best known for his novels The Stand and It, someof his best work that has been published are his short stories such as "The Body" and"Quitters Inc". King's works are so powerful because he uses his experience andobservations from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories.Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, at theMaine General Hospital.Stephen King at the Harvard Book Store.Stephen, his mot her Nellie, and his adopted brother David wereleft to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain,left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. Hisfathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical workDanse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: "After my fathertook off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet." My brother and I didn'tsee a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuouslow paying jobs." Stephen's first outlooks on life were influenced by his older brotherand what he figured out on his own. While young Stephen and his family moved aroundtheNorth Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven...