The Work Of Stephen King
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The main quality of literature in our society is its ability to
entertain the masses. Some authors use horror and mystery to keep their
reader's attention. Stephen King is the epitome of horror writers. In
writing horror mystery novels, Stephen King utilizes small towns, a unique
writing style, and people's inherent fears to scare th ....
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.... fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else,
others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles),
closed in places, rats, snakes, deformity, squishy things, and his number
one fear is fear of the dark. "At night, when I go to bed I am still at
pains to be sure that my legs are und ....
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Number of pages: 6 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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