Danse Macabre

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The Gunslinger (1982) — First in The Dark Tower series starring a protagonist that embodies that exact trope, searching for the ultimate truth. The series has been in Development Hell for decades, with the current plan to turn it into a TV series with movies interspersed in. A film version came out in 2017. If It Bleeds (2020) — A collection of novellas, one of which stars Holly Gibney from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider. See that you get on. That's your job in this had world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on. The Jaunt" — Set 300 years into a future where teleportation is the primary mode of transport, the story examines the practical and metaphysical issues with the invention. Adapted into a Dollar Baby short film, and plans for a series have been announced. Big Driver" - Mystery writer is violently raped, hunts down her rapist for revenge. Made into a movie in 2014.

I think you've got a point there, @Timebender . I was thinking of the Werewolf as a maniac pretending to be a sane person, where the horror came from the contrast between polite normality and rabid violence, whereas the Imposter would be something that can't quite hide as a human and is therefore sinister - a personification of the Uncanny Valley, in a way. But the two are very similar. Perhaps the Imposter is a mixture of Werewolf and Thing, as I thought in the first post. I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. Edgar Awards winners announced". Mystery Writers of America. Archived from the original on November 5, 2016. Edgar Awards winners announced". Mystery Writers of America. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Danse Macabre is a craft book about the field of everything horror, focusing on the history of the genre in a variety of mediums, for the most part between the years 1950 and 1980.Workaholic: The man seems incapable of not writing for any extended period of time and has even described it as an addiction. Stephen King Accepts the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters". National Book Foundation. February 25, 2016 . Retrieved March 2, 2021. Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Many of his works have children at the center of the story, but a children's author, he ain't. His juvenile characters are at no less risk than his adult ones for having all sorts of nasty things to happen to them; while they do stand a better chance at living to the end than the adults, that doesn't always save them. Announcing the Winners of the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards!". Goodreads . Retrieved February 27, 2021. Another example of the 'misunderstood' monster that spurred my thinking was the Mothman in the film The Mothman Prophesies. It, some sort of inter-dimensional thing, causes psychological distress and horror to individuals and appears to be taunting and playing with them, but does not actually cause deaths* or disasters. However it may be for all we know find us as unfathomable as we find it.

Dark Scribe Magazine - 2nd Annual - Nominees". Dark Scribe Magazine. November 30, 2008 . Retrieved February 26, 2021. Desperation (1996) — AU version of The Regulators. Travelers get caught in the wrong desert, in the wrong little town, at the absolute worst time. Made into a TV movie featuring Ron Perlman as the crazy demon-possessed sheriff. Has ties to the Dark Tower series. Before he gave us the classic title On Writing, ('part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer' - Guardian) Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, 'One of the best books on American popular culture' (Philadelphia Inquirer) the popularity of the Western continued to rise until its peak in the 1950s, when the number of Western films produced outnumbered all other genres combined" Audie Awards® - APA". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016 . Retrieved February 25, 2021.Hearts in Atlantis (1999) — Vietnam-era story anthology. First story was made into a movie, and has some connection to the Dark Tower series.

Additionally, King classifies the genre into three well-defined, descending levels—terror, horror, and revulsion. The Shawshank Redemption (1994): Based on Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from Different Seasons Faithful (2005) — A collaboration of lighter mood than his fiction that follows the 2004 Boston Red Sox to their first World Series win in eight decades. Ax-Crazy: His favorite type of villains seem to be ones who are just frothing, sadistic lunatics. Even if they start out stable and polite on the surface, they often devolve into this by the end.Children of the Corn" — A couple ends up stranded in a town ruled by a degenerate cult of children. Inspired a film series. Adapted three times, Disciples of the Crow, Children of the Corn (1984) and Children of the Corn (2009), with the second film getting a bunch of sequels as well. Stephen King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, crime fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books. King has published 61 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been compiled in book collections. Tozai Mystery Best 100 (Revised Edition 2012) (in Japanese). Japan: Bungeishunjū. 2013. ISBN 978-4167217976. Roadwork (1981) — The planned demolition of a man's home for a highway extension sends him on a seemingly irrevocable path of self-destruction. As with Long Walk, an adaptation was finally mounted in 2019.