Viking Press "What's next, killer cars? Killer clowns? Killer menstruating teenagers?" We're now picturing King browsing novels at an airport bookstore and saying, "A killer St. " Yes, even his blackout drunk scrawls sell millions of copies and get movie adaptations. Bernard dog that King "barely remember(s) writing at all. King says he was a "heavy user" of the happy powder from 1978 till around 1986 when he was churning out best-sellers like It, Christine, Pet Sematary, Misery, and Cujo - the classic tale of a murderous St. Pictures Picture this but with something other than snow. That's when King realized he had a bad drinking problem and should probably do something about it.Īnd he did: he developed an even worse cocaine problem. One night in 1978 or 1979, Stephen King went to his garage and noticed, to his horror, that the trash can he reserved for recycling beer cans was "full to the top." Why would that horrify the same brain that came up with Pennywise the Clown and the nudist ghost lady from The Shining? Because the trash can had been empty a week earlier, and King was the only one in his family who drank beer (unless his toddler and two young kids were really good at hiding beer breath).
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