I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify; and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
— Stephen King Contemporary

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Interview with Douglas E. Winter

Date / Period

1981

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Controversial

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