Stephen King Research Paper

Stephen King: The King of Horror

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” Some of the many themes Stephen King has provided to his audience, King has a way of making his readers feel as though there isn’t any good left in the world. He creates stories that draw in his audience and keeps them turning the pages in anticipation to find out more. Stephen King has influenced the horror writing genre by using new and innovate writing skills, inspiring many young writers and filmmakers, and offering powerful themes of life such as childhood, family, death, and conquering fears.
King offered a new style of writing to his generation in which he wrote extremely detailed stories with non conventional characters that readers could relate to. “Because readers can identify with many of King’s three-dimensional, dynamic characters, his stories captivate and engage his loyal fans and first-time readers” (The Writing Style). Most of King’s readers are everyday people who don’t have the most typical lives and they enjoy reading about characters like themselves with the same problems. In his novel, Carrie many readers can relate to the main character who is a teenage outcast. King’s readers become attached because he creates characters with real everyday problems. For example in IT, Beverly Marshal who is abused by her father and Wendy in The Shining, who has been in a long suffering marriage. Stephen King also changed the standard writing style by using foreshadowing and hidden metaphors in his stories, for example in his book, The Green Mile, his character Coffey represents Jesus Christ. His techniques have inspired other writers to write like
Another argument made about Stephen King is that his books contain too much inappropriate content and can be controversial. Many of King’s novels have been targeted for their violence and sexual content. In the article, Sex, Drugs and Tim Allen: Inappropriate Books I Read As A Kid, the author listed any book ever written by Stephen King, pointing out specifically his story, Thinner. On the topic of his content King’s biggest admirer Alec has something to say, “But that’s the best time to be reading his novels—when you’re just a little too young for the violence and sex and ideas they contain, so they seem to promise all of the primal power that fiction affords” (Nevala-Lee). Nevala-Lee argues that King’s content makes his stories more real and draw his fans in more. Everyone has their opinions on what good/bad writing is but King’s sales and ability to draw fans to each of his books speaks for the quality of his