Publication: Discovering Stephen King

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Publication: Discovering Stephen KingPublication Record # 326593
Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Date: 1985-08-00
ISBN: 0-930261-06-2 [978-0-930261-06-1]
Publisher: Starmont House
Pub. Series: Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
Pub. Series #: 8
Price:
$9.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: 219
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: NONFICTION
Cover: Discovering Stephen King by Stephen Fabian [as by Stephen E. Fabian]
Notes:
- Cover artist credited on copyright page.
- Month of publication from Barnes & Noble.
- Pages 210-211 are "About the Contributors."
- Pages 212-219 are an index.
External IDs:
- LCCN: 85-2821

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Nonfiction Title: Discovering Stephen King • (1985) • nonfiction by Darrell Schweitzer

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

5 • Introduction (Discovering Stephen King) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
9 • What Makes Him So Scary? • essay by Ben P. Indick
15 • Has Success Spoiled Stephen King? • essay by Alan Warren
26 • The Biggest Horror Fan of Them All • essay by Don Herron
41 • Stephen King's American Gothc • essay by Gary William Crawford
46 • The Early Tales: Stephen King and Startling Mystery Stories • essay by Chet Williamson
55 • Stephen King and Peter Straub: Fear and Friendship • essay by Bernadette Lynn Bosky [as by Bernadette Bosky]
83 • The Stand: Science Fiction Into Fantasy • essay by Michael R. Collings
91 • Stephen King With a Twist: The E.C. Influence • essay by Debra Stump
102 • Cycle of the Werewolf and the Moral Tradition of Horror • essay by Randall D. Larson
109 • Stephen King and the Lovecraft Mythos • essay by Robert M. Price
123 • Three by Bachman • essay by Don D'Ammassa
131 • A Matter of Choice: Stephen King's Cujo and Bernard Malamud's The Natural • essay by Debra Stump
141 • The Ultimate Horror: The Dead Child in Stephen King's Stories and Novels • essay by Leonard G. Heldreth
153 • Collecting Stephen King • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
165 • Synopses of Stephen King's Fiction • essay by Sanford Zane Meschkow [as by Sanford Z. Meschkow]
205 • Stephen King: A Bibliography • essay by Marshall B. Tymn

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