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and desire for anonymity, 185–86

Cell, 229–30

Cemetery Dance magazine, 170

censorship

SK’s opposition to, 135, 142

by TV networks, 133, 194, 200

Center Lovell, Maine, 90, 101

Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, Maine, 203–5, 216

Cerf, Bennett, 41

Chabon, Michael, 225

Chapman, Mark, 108–9

charity, SK giving to, 148–49, 169, 236–37, 242

Charles P. Brown House, Bangor, Maine, 237

Charlie McGee character, 107, 132

“Chattery Teeth,” 170

Chesley, Chris, 23–24, 36, 121

Chicago, Illinois, 10, 11, 12, 42

child abuse, 168

childhood

remembering what it was like, 145, 147

SK’s, 7

children

SK’s fear of something bad happening to them, 87, 94, 144

SK’s reason for having them, 107

SK’s writing for, 151–52

Tabby’s method of raising, 111

traumatized, SK’s books about, 147

violence toward, censored by TV networks, 194

“Children of the Corn,” 86, 136

Children of the Corn (movies), 174

Chizmar, Richard, 170

Christine (book), 120, 125, 221

Christine (movie), 125–26

Chute, Carolyn, 167

cigarette smoking, SK’s, 241

Clancy, Tom, 190, 212, 240

Clayton, Uncle, 24

cocaine, 96–97, 131, 142, 160

“Code Name: Mousetrap,” 34

Coffee House, Orono, 49

collectors, 135–36

college students

in the 1960s, 44–45

SK’s view of, 92

Collings, Michael, 124, 146–47

Colorado, SK’s stay in, 77–78, 80

The Colorado Kid, 229

Columbia University, 226–27

Columbine High School massacre, 194–95

comic-book format, 233

Comics Review, 33–34

commercial endorsements, by SK, 132–33

Commercial Union York Insurance, 216

completist collectors, 135

Conference on the Fantastic and the Arts, Fifth International, 136

conventions, SK’s attendance at, 136

cops, SK’s view of, 48

Corman, Roger, 211

Cosmopolitan magazine, 65

“The Crate,” 98, 117

creative writing programs, 227

SK’s teaching of, 91–92

Creepshow (movie), 117–19, 156

critics

advice to listen to them, 174

disdain for popular fiction, 219

Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., 10

Crystal, Billy, 235

Cujo, 138, 168

limited edition of, 114

writing of, 2, 112–14

Cycle of the Werewolf, 131

Danse Macabre, 112

Darabont, Frank, 175–76, 196, 208, 233, 239

Dark Forces, 239

The Dark Half, 161

The Dark Tower (final book of series), 220

Dark Tower series, 56, 166, 187, 190, 200, 212, 214, 220, 222

The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 148

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, 233

Dawn of the Dead (movie, by Romero), 135

dead bodies, SK’s familiarity with, as child, 21, 33, 37

Dead White Men literature, 43

The Dead Zone (book), 94, 116

publication of, 99

The Dead Zone (movie), 126–27

DeFillipo, Marsha, 6

De Laurentiis, Dino, 126, 132, 140–41

Democratic National Convention (1968), 42

De Palma, Brian, 82

Depression, Great, 9

Desperation, 188–89, 240

DeWalt, Maurice, 60

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red (prequel by Ridley Pearson), 218–19

Dick, Philip K., 189

Different Seasons, 119

divorce, 14

dogs, 112–13

Dolan’s Cadillac, 161, 177

Dollar Babies (noncommercial films supported by SK), 116, 176

Dolores Claiborne (book), 173–74, 179

Dolores Claiborne (movie), 184

Dosen, Alma, 93

Doubleday, 59–60, 63, 67, 71–76, 83, 86, 87–89, 111, 129, 162

SK’s contract with, 88–89, 122–23

doughnuts, 62

Doyle, Conan, 200

Dracula (Stoker), 67

draft, military, 50–51

Dreamcatcher, 206, 209, 212, 216–17

Drew University, 38

drinking

as escape, 70

SK’s, 69–70

underage, 36–38

drugs

on college campuses, in 1960s, 44–45

getting off, cold turkey, 158–60, 208

in media world, in 1970s, 96

SK’s use of, 45, 96–97

The Drum (high school newspaper), 34

Duma Key, 239–40

du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca, 191

Dunkin’ Donuts, 62

Durham, Maine, 10, 27, 68, 77, 99

Durham Elementary School, 27

Dutton, 189

Dylan, Bob, 36, 49

ear doctor, SK’s bad experience with, 14

Eastern Maine Medical Center, 169

Ebert, Roger, 127, 132, 208

e-books, 210–12

E.C. Comics, 15–16, 117

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 238

Ellis, Bret Easton, 228

Eminem, 223

emotional control, New Englanders’, 16

Emperor’s New Clothes syndrome (SK’s insight), 141

England, SK’s stay in, 90

Entertainment Weekly, SK’s column in, 222, 240

ESP, SK’s belief in, 105

Estes Park, Colo., 77–78

Everest House, 111

Everything’s Eventual (collection), 220, 238

The Exorcist (book and movie), 71

The Eyes of the Dragon, 148, 151–52, 211

facts, SK often wrong about, in his writing, 5–6

fairy tales, 146

fans, 90, 94, 140, 177–78

dangerous, 108–9, 136, 152–53, 170, 217, 236

questions about SK’s childhood experiences, 106–7

SK’s thoughts on, 153

fantasy, SK’s attraction to, 55–56

father

of an author, unconscious writing for, 123

SK as, 115

fatherhood, SK on, 78–79, 87, 115

Father Knows Best, 78

“Father’s Day,” 117

Fat Man and Ribbon (high school play), 39

Faulkner, William, 43

Fayed, Dodi, 132

FBI, 195

fears, of SK, 1–2, 144, 195–96, 214, 241

fence, SK’s, in Bangor, 104

Feury, Jim (Mighty John Marshall), 129

“The Fifth Quarter,” 64, 177

fire, SK’s love of, 88

Firestarter (book), 116, 147

publication of, 107

writing of, 95

Firestarter (movie), 132

SK’s dissatisfaction with, 132

First Universalist Church, Yarmouth, Maine, 192, 228

Fish, Jim, 82

Fitzgerald, F-stop, 160

Flaws, Oren, 11, 19

“The Float,” 58

Florida, 233

flush toilets, 27

flying, fear of, 195–96

Fogg, Nellie Weston (grandmother), 8–9, 19, 21

death of, 33

Fort Wayne, Ind., 11, 12

“The 43rd Dream,” 34

Four Past Midnight, 163

free love, 54

French-Canadians, 53

friends, SK’s, cut off because they wanted a free ride, 120–21

From a Buick 8, 202, 209, 221–22

Fugate, Caril, 21

Fulghum, Robert, 171

Gaines, Bill, 15

Gallery magazine, 55, 98

“The Garbage Truck” (SK’s college newspaper column), 47–51

Garris, Mick, 193

gay and lesbian community, 185, 228–29

Gazzara, Ben, 76

Gerald’s Game, 168–69, 174, 179

Getting It On (working title), 59–60, 83

The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (collaborative musical with John Mellencamp), 240–41

ghosts, 104–5

ghost stories

English, 90

in a small town, 19

G.I. Joe toys, 149–50

girls

courage of, on dates, 47

SK’s writing about, 65–66

unpopular ones, as models for later SK stories, 28–29, 65

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, 199, 201

“The Glass Floor,” 42

God

as character, 189