Steven King - King on King

1284 Words6 Pages
Interview - King on king King on King is a collection of interviews with the horror author Stephen King. He explains a lot about horror, and why he has the needs to write it. He also tells about why other people need horror and his fascination of a kids mind. The first reason why King writes horror stories is because he is warped, he thinks that it is a necessity to be warped; because of this quote from the interview “The first reason is because I'm warped, of course” the use of the word “of course” underlines that he thinks it is a necessity. He also mentions that he thinks a lot of people are afraid to say that they are warped, but he is not. Another reason that he has always written horror stories is because he regards it as a psychological protection. It is like he is drawing a magic circle around himself and his family. He tells that his mother always used to say, 'If you think the worst, it can't come true." He know that's only a superstition, but he has always believed that if you think the very worst, then, no matter how bad things get they'll never get as bad as that. He explains that in his heart he has always been convinced that they can get pretty bad. The third reason why he writes horror stories is because he loves to scare people. He explains that the trick is to get the readers confidence. To get that confidence you want to be a friend of the reader, he wants to come up to the reader, put his arm around them and say “Hey, you want to see something? It's great! Wait till you see it! You'll really like this thing". Then he gets them really interested and leads them up the street and takes them around the corner and into the alley where there's this awful thing, and keep them there until they're screaming. He thinks that is fun. He knows that is sounds a bit sadistic, but he feels like he has to tell the truth. King explains that children have a

More about Steven King - King on King

Open Document