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[[File:Stephen-King-2max.jpg|frame|In the time it took for you to look at this picture, he just wrote a 1500-page novel.]]
{{quote|''It was a nice day... '''<big>AND THEN EVIL CAME!</big>'''''
|The Collected Work of Stephen King, [http://rinkworks.org/bookaminute/b/king.shtml ultra-condensed version]}}
{{quote|''We all gotta die, baby. I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.''
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Several characters, most notably Jack Torrance in ''The Shining'' and Jim Gardener in ''The Tommyknockers''. King himself used to be an alcoholic.
** Several pages of Gardener's introduction feature a ''disturbing'' description of what alcoholism feels like from the drunk's perspective.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]: He says that, in addition to Tabitha Spruce wearing pretty stockings and owning a nice typewriter, this was why he fell for her. In a writing workshop where people were writing edgy poetry that lacked meaning, Tabby wasn't afraid to speak her mind while remaining calm and patient with terrible writing. She made allowances for his alcoholism and drug addiction, but drew the line and staged an intervention after ''Maximum Overdrive'' flopped, complete with a crew member getting injured. Stephen said that Tabby's faith in his ability to get clean only strengthened their bond.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]
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** There is a direct reference to Lovecraftian mythos in the short story ''Crouch End''.
** And "CTHUN" from the short story ''N''.
* [[Enlistment-Ending Minor Malaise]]: He mentioned in ''On Writing'' that he considered enlisting for the Vietnam War in the hopes it would inspire a book; his mother made him go to college instead because she didn't want him returning in a coffin. The biography ''Haunted Heart'' reveals that he wasn't qualified anyway due to punctured eardrums from a procedure meant to cure his ear infections as a child. (King wasn't that grateful as a child, saying the experience taught him to never trust doctors saying "This won't hurt.")
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]
* [[Finger-Twitching Revival]]: Carrie's hand jutting out of the ground in the film.
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