Lisa Rogak - Haunted Heart

The Snake Pit (movie), 16

“Something to Tide You Over,” 117

Sometimes They Come Back (movies), 174–75

Sonderegger, Shirley, 140

Song of Susannah, 220

Spacek, Sissy, 82

spiders, 241

Spielberg, Steven, 176

Spignesi, Stephen, 154, 216

Springer Cabins, Orono, 54

Spruce, Joseph, 53

Spruce, Raymond George, 52

Spruce, Sarah (SK’s mother-in-law), 219, 234

Spruce, Tabitha Jane (SK’s wife), 16, 52–55, 96, 101, 153, 165, 169, 173, 202, 207, 218, 221, 236

on celebrities, 3

celebrity status of, 127–28

collaborations with SK not possible, 215–16

early married life, 62

fearlessness of, 214–15

health issues, 193

helps SK with writing ideas, 66, 67, 110

marriage health, 214

marriage to SK, 61

pregnant with first child, 54–55

second child, 68

telling SK to clean up his act, 96, 142, 154, 156–57, 159

third child, 86

work style as writer, 110–11, 177, 186

writing career, 54, 110–11, 128, 136, 176–77, 186–87, 232–33

Spruce (Pinette) family, 53

Sputnik, 18

Stalking the Nightmare anthology, 134

Stanchfield, Bethany, 93

The Stand (book), 5, 87–89, 111, 196

publication of, 87–89

writing of, 80, 86, 87–88

The Stand (miniseries), 181–82, 193

The Stand (movie), 117

Stand by Me (book), 196

Stand by Me (movie), 120, 176

The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition, 162–63

Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colo., 77–78

Stark, Richard, 83

Starkweather, Charles, 21–22

Startling Mystery Stories, 42, 46

Steel, Danielle, 240

Steel, Terry, 104

Stefko, Joe, 189

Steinbeck, John, 43

Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, 148–49, 162, 169–70, 242

Stephen King’s Lawnmower Man, 175

Stephen King’s Rose Red (miniseries), 218

The Storm of the Century (miniseries), 199–200

Stratford, Conn., 13

Straub, Peter, 81, 90, 94, 139, 148, 201, 209–10, 217, 222

Students for a Democratic Society, 51

student teaching, 54

Stu Redman character, 87

Sturgeon, Theodore, 111

“Suffer the Little Children,” 64

suicide, 221

“The Sun Dog,” 163

Survivor (Tabitha Spruce King), 186–87

Swithen, John (pseudonym), 64, 177

Tales by Moonlight anthology, 134

The Talisman (joint venture with Peter Straub), 139, 143

The Talisman (movie project), 176

tall tales, in a small town, 19

Tan, Amy, 171, 177

Tasmanian Devil, 98

Tavern on the Green, New York City, 199

TBR (to be read) bookcase, 218–19

teaching, SK’s feeling about, 62–63

teenagers, troubled, and influence of SK’s books, 194–95

telekinesis, 66

television

censorship on, 133, 194, 200

SK adaptations for, 99–100

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (movie), 46

Thandeka (Naomi King’s partner), 212–13

therapists, SK’s fear of, 1–2, 156, 160

“They’re Creeping Up on You,” 117

Thinner (Bachman), 121–22, 137–38, 143

thirteen, fear of, 1

Thompson, Bill, 59–60, 63, 64, 67, 71–76, 87, 89, 111, 231

Thompson, Flip, 65

Time magazine, 148

toilets

flush, 27

outdoor, 238–39

Tolkien, J. R. R., 55–56

Lord of the Rings series, 55

The Tommyknockers, 148, 154–55

tongue covered with green fungus incident, 118

triskaidekaphobia, 1

“Trucks,” 86, 140

trucks, 140–41

“trunk” novels, SK’s, 236

Tutu, Desmond, 213

Twentieth Century-Fox, 74

20th Century Ghosts (Joe Hill), 226

Twilight Zone (Rod Serling), 120

twins, 161

typewriters, SK’s, 23–24, 81

Unitarian/Universalist faith, 212, 228–29

United Artists, 74

University of Maine at Orono (UMO), 38–55, 127

English Department, 42–44, 91–93, 97–98

SK’s activism at, 999

University of Vermont, 200–201

Unnatural Acts of Intercourse (working title), 242

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

Uris, Leon, 87

Utica, N.Y., 228

vampires, 67, 75–76, 99–100

movies about, 99

Van Ronk, Dave, 36

vasectomy incident, 95

Vassar College, 184

Verrill, Chuck, 97, 142, 164, 182, 191, 230

“A Very Tight Place,” 238–39

Vicodin, 204

Vietnam War, 42, 50, 136

Viking, 89, 110, 151, 173, 189, 190–91

The Village Vomit (high school newspaper), 34–35, 39

Vincent, Bev, 4–5, 139

Vincinanza, Ralph, 210

violence

censorship of, 194

urge to, 124

Virginia Beach, Maine, 142

WACZ, 129

Walken, Christopher, 126

Walsh, George, 110

Warner Books, 114

Warner Brothers, 193

Washington, D.C., 37

The Wastelands, 166

Wavedancer Foundation, 236

Webber, General (ghost), 104–5

Weird Tales, 76

Wells, H. G., 8

We’re All in This Together (Owen King), 227

West De Pere, Wisc., 11, 12

West Durham, Maine, 11, 19–24

Westlake, Donald, 84, 218

White, Sarah Jane, 52

white guys, SK’s view of, 108

Whitney Museum, 161

Wiater, Stanley, 133, 139, 148, 210, 221

Wilder, Thornton, Our Town, 67

Wile E. Coyote, 118

Willden, Nye, 60, 64, 68, 71, 85

Willey, Brenda, 68

William Arnold House (Stephen King family home), Bangor, Maine, 103–5, 164–66

Windolf, Jim, 231

witches, 12

Wizard and Glass, 190

Wolves of the Calla, 220, 222

The Woman in the Room (movie), 175–76

“The Woman in the Room” (story), 77

women, and SK, 121

women’s liberation, 65

Wood, Patty, 185

work, as drug to SK, 221–22

World Series, 107–8

Worumbo Mills and Weaving, 39–40, 60

Wrightson, Bernie, 162

writers

SK’s view on the utility of, 98

star, publishers’ pressure on, 116

writer’s block, SK’s overcoming of, 155, 180

writing

SK’s book on, 213–14

SK’s theory of creation vs. unearthing, 180

WZON, 129, 161

The X-Files (TV show), 197

Yanko’s Taxi Service, 35

Yarmouth, Maine, 192, 228

York, Pennsylvania, 37

Zebra (publisher), 97

Zenith the Common Ivy, 211

A BOY NAMED SHEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN

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HAUNTED HEART. Copyright © 2008 by Lisa Rogak. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Rogak, Lisa, 1962–

Haunted heart : the life and times of Stephen King / Lisa Rogak.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37732-8 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-312-37732-0 (alk. paper)

1. King, Stephen, 1947– 2. Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Horror tales—Authorship. I. Title.

PS3561.I483Z85 2009

813’.54—dc22