Stephen King Stephen King is one of today's most popular writers. He has written over thirty-six novels, one hundred short stories, and non-fiction essays. King is a superb storyteller, and has a string of best-selling novels, many of which have been translated into many different languag...

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then...