Stephen King. Biography. Stephen King Website. Stephen King - Twitter. About the Book. Book Summary. Reviews. New York Times Review. Published: March 1, 1977 tephen King is one of the hottest novelists currently working the horror-occult genre. His books "Carrie" and "Salem's Lot" were best sellers in paperback, having been given a considerable boost by the popularity of the movie of "Carrie. " Judging from his latest novel, "The Shining," he is a writer of fairly engaging and preposterous claptrap.
Ranked on a scale of from 0 to Ira Levin and Thomas Tryon, to name two leading practitioners in this vein, he would score, I should say, about a 75. His long suit is an energetic and febrile imagination and a radar fix on the young people who probably make up the large hard core of the market. Ontologically Grounded The horror genre, with its convention of unnatural or supernatural menace, has attracted great writers from time to time. In "The Shining," Stephen King resorts to summoning up a melange of ghosts and mixing them with voguish interest in precognition. Grand Guignol ‘Room Service'