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Friday essay: in praise of the ‘horror master’ Stephen King
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Growing up in the 1980s, the name Stephen King was synonymous with macabre, terrifying, apparently taboo (though ubiquitous) book covers. They seemed to appear everywhere: bookstores, to be sure; but also newsagents, supermarkets, cinemas, airports and libraries. They…