Stephen King:

If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you're under stress or to pick your nose on your morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business...

— Stephen King Contemporary

Horror fiction

Context

From his essay 'Why We Crave Horror Movies'

Date / Period

1981

Source

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Explanation

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Method

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