title: Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen King
author: Stephen King
description: "My soul must be very black, indeed," observes King, virtuoso of horror fiction, but these 30-odd interviews do not lay bare his soul. They do, however, reveal some interesting things about his insomnia and persistent fears (he hates darkness), his literary sources, work habits (he writes two hours a day, seven days a week) and how his scary novels are linked to his childhood insecurities and feelings of inadequacy. The interviews, conducted by various journalists over the past decade, originally ran in media ranging from Penthouse to the Baltimore Sun. Shrugging off critics who dismiss his work as derivative, King explains his fascination with the horrific and calls himself a good writer, not a great one. His comments on his novels and their movie adaptations are often astute, as when he interprets Carrie as a parable of women's consciousness or pans Stanley Kubrick's frigid direction of The Shining. <BR>Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  "MASTERFUL, CHILLING, JUICILY HORRIBLE . . . FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO TAKE THEIR
  SCARE STRAIGHT."
  
  
  
  
  
  —The New York Times Book Review
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Creeds. An ideal family. Physician father, beautiful wife, charming little
  daughter, adorable infant son. Close, loving, wonderfully alive. When they
  found the old house and enchanting grounds in rural Maine, it seemed too good
  to be true. It was. For the truth was bloodchilling—something more horrifying
  than death itself, and hideously more powerful. . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PET SEMATARY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "A STUNNER . . .  A GUARANTEED BLOCKBUSTER . . . King gets you to believe the
  unbelievable . . . reaches out and touches the dread ... it scared the starch
  out of me."
  
  
  
  
  
  —Detroit News
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "FOR SHEER HORROR, Stephen King wins skeleton hands down. A bunch more as good
  as Pet Sematary and King will outdistance even Poe"
  
  
  
  
  
  —Cosmopolitan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "UNRELENTING, CONVINCING . . . AWESOME POWER ... HIS BEST YET!"
  
  
  
  
  
  —Pittsburgh Press
  
  
  
  