In depth on Stephen King
... Stephen King writes literature of the most horrific, gruesome, and disturbing nature that you can find in the mainstream literary world and is also a best-selling author. Through his works and his own testimony, you will find that there are subtle hints to King’s persona. These hints show that King exhibits paranoia, schizophrenia, and a strong inclination to violent behavior. ... It is also characterized by substance abuse, which King has freely talked about in interviews. In a interview in the book Conversations with Stephen King, King stated: “The more miserable and inadequate I felt about what I saw as my failure as a writer, the more I’d try to escape into a bottle. ... These thoughts reflect King’s own thoughts, where he believes that people he knows could eventually be out to kill him. ... King’s ability to create such believability in a character with such paranoia only creates the idea that King, in fact, contains paranoia himself. King also committed himself into a mental asylum at one point in his life, and was quoted on saying “I’d try to figure out how and why I’d ever committed myself to that particular lunatic asylum.” (33) King also had a troubled childhood life, another cause for paranoia. ... King says, “My mother once told me he was the only man on the sales force who regularly demonstrated vacuum cleaners to pretty young widows at two o’ clock in the morning.” (35) King’s father also had many run-ins with the law, and was forced to create aliases for himself and his family, thus creating a confused identity for King.