Stephen King 71

'71 back in Portland (Maine, USA), birthplace of the world-famous writer, a genius and a recognized King of Horror - Stephen King. Today, in honor of his birthday, the editors BigPikchi happy to publish a selection of scary, in a sense of the mystical and the little-known facts about the life of the King.

There will be no written that King sold for his life more than 350 million copies of the books that he had met with his wife Tabitha in college, he loves rock and roll, that his house looks like a castle with ghosts, that legendary "Carrie" ( which helped the family of the writer out of poverty), he initially just thrown in the trash ... it has long been known. No, we want to congratulate the King horror as should tell him something from what you will be at ease.

phobia

Hard to believe, but the King of Horror truly royal "cockroaches". Mr. King terribly afraid of very much: the dark, snakes, spiders, rats, ugliness, psychotherapy, all sticky, closed space, death, creative crisis, fly a plane, and the number 13. The latter, incidentally, is called "triskaydekafobiya" - King kak then he mentioned that he was afraid of this number so much that it avoids falling into your life in every way possible. Not only that - a writer never stops in the work, if working on the thirteenth page - it adds a few more to the number of pages it turned out "as safe as possible."

And what about the aircraft at King's have a whole theory described in his biography by Lisa Rougek. King confident that the plane crash happen to those aircraft, where the number of passengers who are afraid negligible or even zero. If on board the ship has at least three or four people, terribly afraid of flying, the aircraft saved.

By the way, the King views his creation as "an exercise in death, which helps to know your fears."

childhood trauma

Stephen was five years old when he was playing near the house (there is a railway), along with a neighbor boy. What exactly happened is still difficult to explain: whether the children were playing too close, whether the neighbor decided to run across the path in front of the train, or whether he had fled, but he stumbled ... Mrs. King recalled later that day with horror - when her son came home, he was dead pale and did not say anything. The woman had the most to find out what happened - and the news quickly spread through Portland: the neighbor's boy brought down the train.

Stephen King knows that it all happened in front of him, but does not remember anything. Or so it says. In any case, it is the strongest childhood trauma, after which (according to psychologists) writer and became a writer, composing horror. And a little after Stephen tragedy often hide from the cruel world in the attic of the house where, struggling with the shock and unspoken fears, reading fantasy novels - books left over from his father after his mysterious disappearance.

DISAPPEARANCE FATHER

In this story, there is no mystery, all of it is occupied by ordinary human cowardice and weakness. However, almost half a century Stephen King was sure it was in the mystical component of this incident. When he was two years old, his father - Donald Edwin King - went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Moreover - neither Stephen nor his brother, nor even the boy's mother Nellie Ruth Pilsberri never seen the head of the family. Can you imagine what was the future writer? Only in the mid-90s, already having international fame and dozens of works of genius in its arsenal, Stephen King learned that his father had simply fled to his mistress from Brazil. She lived at the same time in the same state, but Donald prefer never to see his children and ex-wife. He died in 1980.

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THE DEATH OF

One that is so afraid of Stephen King, he had once seen very close. And it's not about the tragedy of 1952, when a neighbor lost boy. Terrible happened years later - in 1999. Writer walking down the street when he was hit Dodge Caravan minivan. According to some reports, the driver Brian Smith was not quite sane, and turned away to prevent sitting behind the Rottweiler to get into a portable refrigerator, filled with meat. It was at this point Smith lost control and drove at speed to the curb, where he was King.

writer Injuries were barely compatible with life - arrived on the scene of an accident, paramedics are not allowed to do any predictions. When King was brought to the hospital, doctors pronounced injury of the right lung, multiple fractures (including the right leg), a serious head injury and other dangerous injuries. 20 days spent in the King respirator, and doctors at the time were fighting for his leg - a writer threatened with amputation. However, surgeons spent several operations were able to save the patient's leg.

When the King has fully recovered (which did not expect doctors), he was very distressed that did not manage to buy back the same auction Dodge Caravan 1985 release - the writer personally wanted to smash it to smithereens. But given the machine for recycling. In fact, many fans expressed the later version of that crazy driver Brian Smith was very much similar to kingovskogo character - as if he came down from the pages to get even with the creator and destroy it.

MURDER IN THE SCHOOL

In the late '70s, more precisely in 1977, Stephen King himself has decided to withdraw from the sale of his own book, he wrote in college. It is about the legendary "Fury" (Rage). It was written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman - this was due to an actual reduction of the writer and his wife - then they decided that Steven will write other books under different names.

Hardly "Rage" was published in the United States have been a number of terrorist attacks, strangely reminiscent of the plot of the book. There, we recall, a lot of talk about the shootings in the school hostage-taking and destruction of teenagers. After one such tragedy that occurred in reality, journalists, referring to the police, began to write about the fact that the student who brought the gun to school and threatened to kill everyone, "Rage" was in the backpack. King was shocked - he had contacted the publisher and demanded to withdraw copies from the stores.

Tragedy, however, later repeated several times - in the mid-80s and even later - in the 90's. King admitted that he is the strongest personal pain for him, and continued to link the attacks to the fact that young offenders were inspired by his "rage".

The bonus here we wish to announce that the King was another name - John suites. John was "born" at the same time with Richard Bachman wrote only one short story.

film adaptation of

Finally, we note that the King - the world record holder, because of his 20 novels and 25 short stories have been adapted for film and television. Films on products obtained brilliant writer repeatedly "Oscar" and have been nominated for this film award ( "Carrie," "Misery", "Escape from Redemption", "Green Mile"). By the way, the King can not stand the movie "Shining" by Stanley Kubrick, calling the film "a luxurious car without an engine."

By the way, the horror maestro loves to appear in small roles with the film adaptation of his works of movies - in the photo above, he plays a priest in the film "Pet Sematary" (1989).

And, since we're talking about the movie, here's another bonus - advice from the King himself. According to media recently Stephen King himself, the best film of all time, he finds a picture of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather 2". So you can watch his favorite movie or dust off with a single comic and terrifying his work in honor of the birth of a genius - an autobiography "On Writing". We guarantee you will laugh a lot and will never regret that you have read this book - a work which, in the words of the King, is intended primarily for those who are never going to write a book.