![]() ![]() ![]() Just a loving mom and a struggling dad and a very special little boy - and one very big and very bad hotel tucked away in the mountains. Like so many others, I found ‘SALEM’S LOT to be a powerful and frightening reading experience, and it remains today one of my Top Ten favorite Stephen King novels.īut there were no vampires in THE SHINING. I was enchanted by King’s tale of vampires invading a small New England town, and surprisingly it was the townspeople, even more than the vampires, that cast the strongest spell over me as a reader. ![]() I had read a handful of King’s short stories by this time and one novel, ‘SALEM’S LOT. The same way that books were my escape from the real world, I somehow knew that writing would be my way to understand and cope with that real world. I already knew I wanted to be a writer one day, and somewhere deep in my subconscious, I think I also knew that writing would one day be my salvation. A mostly normal teenager who just happened to see and hear and feel things a little deeper (okay, a lot deeper) than most of my friends. ![]() The son of a strict, but loving father and a doting mother. THE SHINING was the second Stephen King novel I ever read, and when I look back at that experience there is one crystal clear memory that surfaces above all the others: this book is almost too scary. ![]()
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