/lit/ - Literature

>>6852379

His nightmares are actually wet dreams. It's true. Think about it.

The idea for the shining came from a nightmare he had.

>>6852379
His existence, like all human existence, is an unending nightmare from which he cannot wake.

He has dreams where he's confronted with the undeniable reality that he's a talentless hack. He doesn't care though so they're not really nightmares

>>6853544
2deep4me

His nightmare is that readers everywhere turn away from genre and YA fiction and turn to the greats of classic literature. In his writing classes, the students call his advice bad and makes fun of his taste in books. Even his favourite author, J.K. Rowling, admits that her books were poorly writen and just made for money, and encourages Stephen King to repent as well. The dream climaxes when Stephen King, lonely from his fans turning on him, wanders around in a cemetery, sees the rotting corpse of Harold Bloom rise from the ground and calls his work cliched. He wakes up, and is happy to see that most people are still plebs and cheers himself up by selling a short story about, say, a haunted ceiling fan or something.

>>6852379
People find King's works scary? Not 'creepy', not 'weird', but actually causing fear? Fucking really?

>>6854155

I don't get that either, Stephen King is more about being disturbing/creepy than being fearful.

I actually think he's gotten better with age, his books now probe more into deeper, more realistic fears we have. He's gone from dealing with the supernatural to seeing the horrors in our everyday life. The ending to his recent book Revival left me quite disturbed for a while.