Interesting facts about Stephen King. Unknown facts from the life of Stephen King (15 photos)

Today, almost everyone knows who Stephen King is. At the mention of his name, people usually imagine a gloomy man with glasses who loves to drive his readers into hysterics. Whether this is true or not is a moot point, but he can certainly be called an extremely prolific author who has written so many books that you can probably build a whole tower from the floor to the ceiling of your room from them.
In the 80s and 90s, Hollywood producers literally jumped on King's books, because they were perfect for adaptation, and the film industry just needed fresh stories. Thanks to this, we know more about many of the characters of the king of horrors from films than from books by this author. In recent years, new thrillers and horror films have appeared in cinema, once again reviving the popularity of Stephen King's work. Take at least the films "It", "The Dark Tower", "Gerald's Game" and "Mr. Mercedes" (The Dark Tower, IT, Gerald's Game, Mr. Mercedes). But how well do you know the writer of these legendary stories? Here is a selection of 25 interesting facts about the lord of fear and the king of horror - Stephen King.

Stephen and his wife Tabitha are co-owners of several radio stations

Stephen King is a big fan of rock and roll. He and his wife Tabitha own 3 radio stations in Bangor, Maine. These are rock music station WKIT-FM, alternative music station WZLO-FM, and talk show and news radio station WZON-AM, all of which are registered under the same corporate name, The Zone Corporation.

King is a dedicated fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

Stephen King is a big fan of professional baseball and the Boston Red Sox. The famous writer loves matches with their participation so much that he even took part in writing and publishing a book about his favorite team, which tells about the 2004 playing season. The second author was Stewart O'Nan (Stewart O'Nan, a famous American novelist), also a fan of the Boston Red Sox.

The first draft of the novel "Carrie" King threw in the trash

Before Stephen King became a world-famous author, he was practically struggling, going bankrupt and barely getting his stories published in cheap magazines. When the writer was working on the manuscript of the mystical novel "Carrie" (Carrie), he threw the first version into the bucket. Luckily for everyone, his wife Tabitha pulled the draft out of the trash, read the manuscript, and encouraged her husband to finish the book. Subsequently, "Carrie" became the first novel published by King and a real bestseller!

In order to publish as many novels a year as possible, Stephen King began to use pseudonyms. He published as many as 7 books under the name of Richard Bachman (Richard Bachman) and wrote one short story under the pseudonym of John Swithen (John Swithen). At some point, the writer's most astute fans began to guess who exactly was the real author of Bachmann's novels, and King stopped using this name.

King enjoys playing small roles in film adaptations of his books.

Many of Stephen King's works have been adapted into screenplays, and the author is not at all ashamed to appear in films based on his novels. The King of Terror has appeared in at least 14 roles belonging to characters from his books.

The Dark Tower combines almost all of King's books

Fans of Stephen King's work know that all of his novels are connected in one way or another. Some heroes of some books end up in other novels of the author, and the cycle of books "The Dark Tower" is a real saga that combines the entire fictional Universe of the King of Horrors.

King has sold over 350 million copies of his books.

King was nicknamed “The Master of Horror” for a reason, because his works have been read in a binge around the world for several generations in a row. Proof of this is the 350 million books sold by the legendary author, and this is only official data.

Alice Cooper was going to play Pennywise the Clown

This year, the horror film It, based on the book by Stephen King, premiered in cinemas around the world. However, this story was not filmed for the first time. So, there is even the series "It", in which the sinister and bloodthirsty clown Pennywise is played by the famous American actor Tim Curry. However, initially this role was intended for no less famous and perhaps even more outrageous American rock singer Alice Cooper.

King wrote 48 novels, 84 short stories and 16 novellas.

Stephen King is indeed an avid writer. After the first publication of the novel, he published 47 more novels, 84 short stories and 16 novellas. The author continues to write to this day, publishing at least 1 book per year.

In the 80s, King had serious problems with drugs and alcohol.

In the 1980s, when Stephen King became one of the most widely read writers, he almost died due to his unhealthy addictions. The author took drugs and drank to get rid of the psychological trauma of childhood, but it almost destroyed him. King's wife, Tabitha, his relatives and friends intervened. As evidence of the seriousness of the problem, they collected empty beer cans, cigarette butts, tranquilizer packs, cocaine and marijuana residues that belonged to the writer, and dumped them all on the carpet in front of him. Such a demonstration helped King realize his illness and turn to specialists to overcome addictions. In the 1990s, the author entered as a sober person.

King is afraid of flying and...

It turns out that the king of horrors himself is afraid of a lot of things. For example, he is afraid of flying. And he is afraid of a creative crisis.

King strives to write at least 2,000 words a day.

In order to write so many books, Stephen King introduced a personal rule for himself - to write texts of at least 2,000 words every day. With this kind of discipline, an author can write an entire novel in just a few months, depending on the length and complexity of the book, of course.

King and John Mellencamp wrote the musical

Stephen King writes more than just books. For example, together with John Mellencamp, he wrote the musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Unfortunately, their joint work did not have much success.

King's writing was inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story Lurking at the Doorstep.

Stephen King started writing after reading the book Lurking at the Threshold by H.P. Lovecraft (Lurker in the Shadows, H.P. Lovecraft). This explains a lot, because the story that inspired King is dedicated to mystical events and is literally saturated with terrible mysteries.

King collaborated with Michael Jackson himself on the short film "Ghosts"

Few people know that the king of pop Michael Jackson and the king of horror Stephen King joined forces, and thanks to this, the famous video clip for the hit "Thriller" (Thriller) was born. The video was an abbreviated version of their previous collaboration - the short film "Ghosts" (Ghosts), which was so weak that it was forgotten and buried almost immediately after its premiere.

King hates Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining

Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining is considered one of the best horror films of all time. This movie is loved by Kubrick fans and King fans alike. But who would have thought that King himself would not like the film. The writer once said, “It (the movie) is like a big and gorgeous car without an engine,” and his words clearly ooze disappointment.

Stephen King's mansion looks like a haunted house

Have you ever wondered what the house of the king of horrors looks like? It turns out that Stephen King lives in a rather creepy place. His mansion has quirky architecture, and the gates leading to the house look like they've stepped out of the pages of a dark comic book about the Addams Family (Addam's Family).

Writing has become a family affair for the Kings.

After becoming the author of mystical novels, Stephen King practically founded the family business. His wife Tabitha King has already written 10 books, and both their sons, Owen King and Joe Hill (Owen King, Joe Hill), also write novels and short stories. By the way, Owen King married a writer.

As a child, King saw his friend die, but he does not remember anything about it.

When Stephen was just a boy, he went to play with his friend who lived near the railroad tracks. According to the mother, when the child returned home, he was white as a ghost. Mrs. King found out that her son witnessed his friend being hit by a train. The boy did not remember anything at all, and he was told about the tragedy a few years later. It is said that it was childhood trauma that could have caused Stephen King to start writing horror books and mystical novels.

It is one of King's favorite books.

Stephen King once said that Lisey's Story is his favorite novel. However, he later admitted that he loves the books It and 11/22/63 almost as much.

If you've ever wondered what Stephen King's own X-Men comic would look like, then Heroes for Hope: starring the X-men is the answer to all your questions. This charity issue focused on the famine in Ethiopia in 1984-1985, and many famous comic book writers of those years were involved in its creation. Today, this edition is not so easy to find.

King signs his books only at meetings with readers.

Anyone who bumps into the author on the street or sends him a copy of the book by mail to get the coveted autograph is bound to be disappointed. The thing is that Stephen King gives autographs and signs his novels only at pre-scheduled meetings with readers and during presentations of his books.

King was hit by a van in 1999

On June 19, 1999, Stephen King was in a terrible car accident. The writer was walking down the street when he was suddenly hit by a 1985 Dodge Caravan van. It turned out that the driver was distracted by his dog and lost control of the car. In the hospital, the writer's doctors stated an injury to the right lung, multiple fractures of the right leg, head damage, and King was kept on an artificial respiration apparatus for almost 20 days. The king of horrors was threatened with amputation, but the surgeons managed to save his leg after a series of operations. Later, King's lawyer bought the minivan that hit his client so that the car did not get on the online sale, and he sent it to a landfill under pressure. King himself was very upset that he did not have time to get this minibus personally in order to take his soul and smash the ill-fated Dodge with a sledgehammer.

King wrote this novel while still in high school, but he published it somewhat later and under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. However, after several terrorist attacks in the United States reminiscent of the plot of the book (shootouts in schools and hostage-taking), the author requested the withdrawal of "Rage" (Rage, 1977) from print and from store shelves. They say that a copy of the ill-fated "Fury" was found in a bag of one of the students who showed up to the school with a weapon and threatened to shoot them all. The writer was extremely upset that in the 1980s and 1990s his novel inspired young readers to real crimes and bloody murders, and he did not want this to happen again.

King suffers from triskaidekaphobia

In addition to the fear of flying and the fear of falling into a creative block, Stephen King also suffers from a real phobia under the long and terrible name "triskaidekaphobia". This compound word means a painful fear of the number 13. The writer is so afraid of this numeral that he avoids it in his life in every possible way. He even admitted that he never stopped working on a book if it was the thirteenth page and kept writing until he got to a “safe number.”

He has written and published more than 50 novels (seven of them under the pseudonym Richard Bachman), a huge variety of novels and stories and scripts. Stephen King- multiple winner and winner of more than 20 prestigious national and international awards in the field of literature and cinema. More than a hundred films and television films have been made based on his novels, novellas and stories, including such masters as Brian de Palma, John Carpenter, George Romero, David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick. More than 350 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. The figure, you see, is impressive.

"Evening Moscow" brings to your attention a selection of interesting facts from the biography of the "King of Horrors".

America's Most Mysterious State

Interestingly, so many of King's works take place in his home state of Maine, which he considers "the most mysterious state in America." When Stephen was two years old, his father left the house for cigarettes and was never seen again. He just walked out - and disappeared almost forever. It was not until the 1990s that King found out that his father had simply left for another woman, a Brazilian beauty, with whom he lived very close by and died in 1980.

Football, horror and rock and roll

At school, King was heavily into 1950s horror films, played on the football team (American football) and in a rock and roll band. So the hobbies of the future famous writer were the most versatile. He graduated from high school in 1966 and entered the University of Maine, graduating in 1970. In 1971, he married Tabitha Spruce, whom he met and befriended at university and who shares his family joys and sorrows to this day. Stephen sold his first story to a special detective magazine when he himself was still a schoolboy.

Fanatics have occupied King's attention since childhood

At the end of 1950, the attention of eleven-year-old Stephen, like most Americans of that time, was captured by a series of bloody fanatics committed by 19-year-old maniac Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caryl Fugate (together they killed 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming). Steven has collected a whole album of newspaper clippings about Starkweather's crimes. At that time, King was also very interested in the work of the famous "mystical" writer Howard Lovecraft.

There was no penny, but suddenly Altyn

After graduating from the University, King could not find a good job, the family experienced great financial difficulties. He worked in the laundry and as an English teacher. But young Stephen did not leave writing and in 1974 wrote a novel "Carrie"(recall that it is about an outcast girl, who, as they say now, "trolled" the whole class, but the girl eventually took revenge, and how), although at first he threw it unfinished in the trash. His wife, Tabitha, found him there and made him finish it. King received 200 thousand dollars for him and in the future he could already live very decently, without needing anything. Currently Stephen King is officially the richest writer in the history of world literature.

King's forbidden book

In the late 1970s, under the pseudonym King Richard Bachman published his early novel called Fury. The book was pulled from sale after real school shootings began to occur in Kansas. A juvenile delinquent who killed three of his classmates found a copy of this book, after which King himself decided to completely withdraw the book from sale.

"Tommyknockers" as the fruit of an altered consciousness

In 1999, Stephen King, while walking his dog, was hit by a minivan and seriously injured. And he even announced the end of his work, but changed his mind, only slowed down the pace of writing books. Interestingly, two years after the accident, the driver who hit King died of a drug overdose. Meanwhile, King and himself in life had big problems with alcohol and drugs. He later admitted that he hardly remembers how he wrote a huge novel. "Tommyknockers"(The plot of the novel for those who have not read: Bobby Anderson finds a strange metal object in the forest, the dimensions of which, according to preliminary calculations, are huge. Following an inexplicable impulse, Bobby begins to dig it out and discovers a spaceship that has been on Earth since time immemorial. The ship affects on Bobby: under his influence, she excavates day and night, forgetting about sleep and food, while simultaneously building various amazing devices (a mind-reading typewriter; an engine that allows a tractor to fly, etc.) With the help of his relatives and doctors, the writer managed overcome these addictions.Since the late 80s, he has been leading a purely sober lifestyle.

Not a day without a line

Interestingly, King set himself a writing "quota" of 2,000 words every day. It doesn't stop until it's done. If he did not make up the norm, he makes up in the following days.

Many have heard the story that Stephen King's father mysteriously disappeared when the boy was two years old and his brother David was four. Just went out for cigarettes and didn't come back. Only as adults did the brothers learn that their father had started another family, in which he had four children and had lived all the time near their old house. By the way, David is not Stephen's brother, he was adopted two years before the birth of the writer. But Stephen King himself never mentions it.
Stephen was a sickly boy.
One of the most vivid childhood impressions from childhood is otitis, which the writer fell ill with in the first grade (at the age of five) and the pain from piercing the eardrum, which he had to endure during three procedures. “My cry is still in my ears,” he wrote, almost fifty years later. During one of his serious illnesses, six-year-old Stephen decided to rewrite the comic with a sequel, just out of boredom. This is where his literary career began. “My cry is still in my ears,” he wrote, almost fifty years later.

King's first reader was his mother (it was she who prompted him to write his own stories). When he brought her four of his own pieces, she paid the boy 25 cents each. “It was my first dollar I ever made,” writes Stephen King. His mother's support and his faith in his son's ability helped him later.

In the late fifties, a children's magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, was published in America. Its editor, Forrest J. Ackerman, is a literary agent and lover of fantasy. This magazine was Stephen's favorite reading material.
Later, Forrest began to publish another magazine - "Cosmonaut", in which the boy sent his first story. The story was never published, and Stephen King happily forgot about it. But twenty years later, the famous writer had to face his childhood story - he signed it for ... Forrest J. Ackerman, who kept this unremarkable work all these years. The first issue of the magazine "Famous Monsters of Filmland", 1958
In 1962, Dave and Stephen King published a home newspaper called Dave's Mustard Platter, which was read by the entire town of Derham. First, the boys made prints on a hectograph, and then they bought a rotaprint. A little later, it was on this hectograph that Stephen printed the first book, on the cover of which was written "the work of Stephen King" - a free reworking of one of his favorite horror films under the "edgarposh" title "The Well and the Pendulum".

Stephen King met his wife in college. After three years of marriage, they already had three children. To feed them, the writer had to work in the laundry. During this time, he wrote "The Night Shift" and "Sometimes They Come Back" - at night and at lunchtime. Stephen King says of writing, "The job of a writer has as much to do with sweeping the floor as it does with mythical moments of insight."

The breakthrough to fame was the novel Carrie (1974), which King initially threw in the trash. The drafts were found and saved by his wife Tabitha, who also forced the writer to finish the novel after all. By that time, Fury, The Long Walk, and The Running Man had already been written.
By the way, Stephen King does not like his "Kerry". According to him, he does not understand the main character and does not believe some of the characters. The rights to this novel were sold by his literary agent to Signet Books for $400,000. This money helped the writer's family to get out of poverty. First edition of Carrie, 1974

In the works of King, one can often find analogies with his own biography. The novel "Misery" (1987), in which an abnormal nurse holds the writer captive (the film adaptation of this novel is one of the most successful adaptations of King, with the inimitable Kathy Bates, who won Oscar and Golden Globe awards for her role in this film) , he wrote about himself in captivity to alcohol and drugs.

The Tommyknockers (1987) is an analogy novel, a cry for help. The voices in the head of the writer, who took possession of her will and invisible alien rulers of the mind. King joked that he had already drunk so much that he did not remember writing "Cujo" (1981), a novel about a St. Bernard who caught rabies. Since the late 80s, the writer has not drunk a drop of alcohol. Kathy Bates as Mad Nurse. One of the scariest shots from the movie Misery, 1990

In 1999, Stephen King's life could have ended in a car accident. Rather, he himself did not get into an accident, he was hit by a van flying at breakneck speed, driven by a not quite normal driver named Brian Smith. At the time of the accident, he reached into the back seat to push his Rottweiler away from the meat fridge. The writer was saved, and he even returned to normal life, although at first no one believed in such an optimistic outcome, especially the doctor who first examined the writer after the accident. The most interesting thing is that Brian Smith himself is like a character who has descended from the King's pages, flying into reality to do away with the creator. King, who is known to be a fan of rock music, had a long history of playing rhythm guitar in the all-writer rock band the Rock Bottom Reamanders. Moreover, the group did not just gather in the garage of one of its members, but performed with concerts, had its fans and even brought in a certain income. In addition to music, writers discussed their literary achievements and ideas - such a versatile creative union.
In many of King's works, there are "winks" to the Regular Reader - a person who, without any doubt, exists in reality, for whom Stephen King wrote and still writes. The heroes of one work, casually mentioned in another, the bringing together of various cycles and storylines, the unity of place and time - all these features of writing make the books he wrote a single work - the life of a man named Stephen King.

This article provides a list of very interesting facts about Stephen King, some of which, many readers might not even know...

1. King is a fan of the television series Lost and wrote an article about the show for the Entertainment Weekly. Rumors that King wrote a book related to the series, The Sinister Twin, under the pseudonym Gary Troup, have not been confirmed.

3. The book "Rage" was withdrawn from sale. When real school shootings began to occur in Kansas, a copy of this book was found in a juvenile delinquent who killed three of his classmates, after which the author himself decided to withdraw the book from sale.

4. Stephen King is the creator of the fictional town of Castle Rock.

5. King's daughter Naomi married a woman named Tandeka, who works as a school theology teacher. The wedding took place in Nashville, Tennessee in June 2000.

6. The 304-page novel "Running Man" King wrote in just 10 days (Source - "Memoirs of the Craft").

7. Owns three radio stations in Maine.

8. In 1992, the Kings sponsored the construction of Mansfield Stadium, and in 2002, Stephen made the first "pitch" at the opening game of the International Senior League in baseball.

9. King is a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball club.

10. King is a fan of the Ramones punk band. Refrain from their iconic Blitzkrieg Bop song "Hey-ho, let's go!" (Eng. "Hey-ho, let's go!") became the epigraph to the second part of the novel "Pet Cemetery". As a token of their gratitude, the Ramones wrote the song "Pet Sematary" which is featured in the film of the same name.

11. King was treated for alcohol and cocaine addiction. (The source is his numerous mentions of this in many afterwords of books and interviews. As an example, the afterword to "A Bag of Bones" or "Memoirs of a Craft").

12. In 1988, King received an offer to write and direct the film A Nightmare on Elm Street 5.

13. In 1999, King was the victim of a ridiculous accident - a young guy was distracted by a dog traveling with him in a van and knocked down a writer walking near the highway. Stephen still feels the consequences - the former broken ribs, leg and damaged lung make themselves felt.

14. King does not use a mobile phone. Perhaps the reasons for this are revealed in the novel Mobile Phone (2006).

15. At the dawn of his literary career, King, disappointed in the failure of his stories, wanted to quit literature, but his wife dissuaded him.

16. In the first part of the video game "Silent Hill" there are several "easter eggs" referring to the work of King.

18. Often sells the rights to film adaptations of his works for $ 1 to beginners and already famous directors, as he loves film adaptations of his novels.

19. When Stephen was 2 years old, his father left the house for cigarettes and did not return. His fate has remained unclear.

20. As a teenager, King was going to volunteer in Vietnam, but his mother managed to insist that he first graduate. As a result, Stephen was never taken into the army due to his vision difficulties and flat feet.

21. The novels "Fury" and "The Long Walk" were written by King before he started working on "Carrie", but due to various circumstances, he could not print them for quite a long time.

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Stephen King is arguably the most popular horror author whose books have captivated millions of readers around the world.

In addition, a large number of his works were filmed, and some film adaptations, such as "Green Mile" and "The Shawshank Redemption" surpassed, according to some, the original.

Many people know his work, but what do you know about King himself, about his fears, about his connection with the Simpsons series?

Interesting facts from the biography of Stephen King

Here are 10 incredible facts about one of the most famous contemporary writers in the world:

10. Fear of flying - Stephen King is afraid of flying

There are many things a writer is afraid of. King wrote many plots from his books based on your own fears. He is afraid of psychiatrists- a fear that he acquired during the struggle with alcohol and drug addiction many years ago.

King is also very afraid of spiders and one day hopes to write another horror movie about it. But the biggest fear experienced by the writer is the fear of air travel.

He already disliked airplanes, and after one day the plane in which he was flying, caught in turbulence, all passengers had to wear oxygen masks, and his seat came off the floor, and he fell with him, Kingu it took a long time to be patient to get on the plane again.

9. King's accident - he bought a van that ran over him

There was a time when King wrote several thousand words a day, and quite a few works were published in a short time. But everything changed when a van ran over him while walking.

It happened in 1999, and after the accident, King was in critical condition. His ribs, leg and hip were broken, and his lung was severely damaged. In three weeks, he underwent several operations and was then discharged from the hospital. He wasn't sure he could write again.

During his slow recovery, he not only wrote a little, but also managed to purchase from the police the van that hit him.

It was originally supposed that he wanted to smash it with his own hands on the anniversary of the accident, but in fact, King just didn't want this van to fall into the hands of some fan or critic..

8. King wrote several comics

Stephen King is a freak. He co-wrote "American Vampire"(American Vampire) - a series of graphic novels in the style of horror - written by American writer Scott Snyder. The artist of this comic is Rafael Albuquerque, and the first issue was published in 2010.

He also supervised graphic adaptations of his own works. Among them, work on "Dark Tower" and "Confrontation"(post-apocalyptic novel). In addition, he collaborated with fellow American writer Peter Straub on The Talisman and with George Romero on the motion picture Horror Kaleidoscope.

In 1986 he wrote an introduction to Issue 400 of Batman Comic, thereby letting know that among all superheroes, he prefers the dark knight, and not the popular, already at that time, Superman.

King is also big X-Men fan. Once he was asked to write a charity issue of a book about the X-Men, and he accepted. The book is called "Heroes of Hope"("Heroes For Hope: Starring The X-Men"), and it was released to draw public attention to the problem of hunger in African countries.

7. There was a time when King defended violent video games.

In 2008, he spoke out against a potential change in Massachusetts law that would limit or a ban on the sale of video games with scenes of violence persons under 18 years of age.

He believed that the law was an attempt to act as a surrogate mother for the state's children, which, in his opinion, is "terrible" because. because of him, pop culture becomes a scapegoat when it comes to violence.

He also noted that the law does not prohibit a 17-year-old teenager from watching horror films with scenes of violence, but forbids playing, for example, Grand Theft Auto.

6. He wrote his first book while working two jobs and living in a trailer.

In his autobiographical book "Memoirs of a Craft"("On Writing"), in addition to practical advice for aspiring writers, King mentioned how he submitted his work to newspapers and magazines and was often rejected.

His first published novel was "Carrie", but before him, King wrote two books that refused to be published. Despite frequent failures, work in the laundry and as a cleaner and a large family, he tried to find time to write, which allowed him to become what he is now.

5. Stephen King's house has a lot of security systems.

Being Stephen King is pretty dangerous. Of course, there are many benefits of being a famous person, but it also means that you can have a lot of fans, some of which are different. unstable psyche.

April 20, 1991 crazy a fan broke into King's house and threatened his wife with a bomb, claiming that King stole the idea for the main character in Misery from his aunt. King's wife, Tabitha, ran to the neighbors and called the police, who eventually discovered that the bomb was just a fake.

The fan was arrested and imprisoned for 18 months.

From that moment on throughout the house a video surveillance system was installed, as well as a high wrought iron fence around the house.

4. King and his wife own several radio stations

Music plays an important role in the life of Stephen King. In his works, the writer often mentioned groups or songs that he personally liked.

He especially loves the group AC/DC and The Ramones. In the film "Maximum Acceleration", based on his book, only AC/DC songs can be heard.

King wrote the liner notes for an album dedicated to the punk band The Ramones.

But King's role in music is much more than just a rock lover. He and his wife own and operate The Zone Corporation, a company that owns 3 radio stations operating in Maine.

radio station WZON in Bangor has political talks, and the affiliate station WZLO broadcasts music of different styles and directions of rock. WKIT-FM positions itself as "Stephen King's Rock and Roll Station" and even mentioned in the book "11/22/63" , where one of the characters works as a DJ at this radio station.

3. He was in the same band as the creator of The Simpsons

Rock-Bottom Remainers was a rock band that featured many different American writers, including Stephen King, Amy Tan, Scott Thurow, Joel Selvin, James McBride, Barbara Kingsolver, Greg Eales, and Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.

The group appeared in the 1990s, and its name comes from the term "remaindered book", which means unsold books that were on sale.

All the money collected by the group from concerts is about $2 million- went to charity.

The band played covers of their favorite songs, including "Stand by Me" door Ben King- one of the most popular rhythm and blues tunes of the 20th century, "Rockaway Beach" by The Ramones, and others.

Stephen King played guitar from 1992 until the band's last show on June 23, 2012 at the American Library Association's annual conference in Anaheim.

2. Stephen King doesn't sign autographs.

There are several theories about why King doesn't sign autographs. Among his fans there is a myth that it is connected with a certain superstition, and this should not be surprising, given his strange phobias.

Another theory is that if you send a book to a writer to sign, then King burn the book and send the ashes to the fan.

But, as is usually the case, none of the theories are true, as King disproved them and gave the real reasons for refusing to sign his books, and these reasons are quite simple. King just doesn't like it when famous people are made into idols..

By refusing to sign autographs, King made his autograph even more valuable. But still, when he tours to promote his new book, King can give an autograph.

1. "Rage" - a book that has been banned (at the request of King)

King has always valued freedom of speech and advocated that violent video games should not be banned from being sold to persons under 18 years of age. There is also a lot of violence and other scary stuff in his books.

But in the case of one book, he did make an exception. "Rage"(Rage), a novel written by King in 1977 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman was withdrawn from sale at the request of the writer himself.

The fact is that some students took weapons with them to school, and one day a boy who took children from his class hostage found this book. After that, there were more cases in the 1980s and 90s when terrorist attacks occurred in American schools, very similar to those that King described in his book back in 1977.

After all that happened, King wrote several times about the impact of his work on people, and spoke out about the fact that does not regret his decision to ban the sale of one of his books.