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This 4 page paper is an annotated bibliography of five works about Stephen King; they concentrated on the author, not on his works.
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and works of writer Stephen King. The authors of the five sources are Stephen King, the Contemporary authors online database, the Contemporary literary criticism database, and Heidi Strengell. The sources
are valuable because Danse Macabre explains Kings thinking about horror; On writing explains (as far as any writer truly can explain) the craft of writing; the article from the Contemporary
authors online database is a critical essay of Kings life and works, as is the entry from Contemporary literary criticism; and Strengell gives us a European evaluation of Kings work.
Bibliography King, Stephen. (1981). Danse macabre. New York, NY: Berkeley Books-The Berkeley Publishing Group-Penguin Putnam, Inc. This is a non-fiction book by King in which he explains his concept
of horror, and reviews many of the films and books of the genre. Reader reviews are mixed, but overall, this book provides a valuable look into the mind of this
prolific author, who says that his first viewing of the B-grade Earth versus the flying saucers, rather than the much more critically-praised The Day the earth stood still, is what
first made him think about what it is that scares us. He writes that horror works on two levels (the "danse macabre" of the title): "On top is the gross-out
level-when Regan vomits in the priests face ... in The exorcist ... But on another, more potent level, the work of horror really is a dance-a moving, rhythmic search. And
what its looking for is the place where you, the viewer or the reader, live at your most primitive level" (King, 1981, p. 2). Its obvious that King knows his
craft, and understands that real horror is not the gross-out blood and vomit stuff, but the things that reach down into a readers very soul and terrify him by playing
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