Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe, especially in West Germany, Messner is a media darling, with an ebullient personality to match his outsize ambitions. He is the author (without any ghost) of numerous magazine stories chronicling his exploits, and he usually carries the photo credit as well. In addition, he has written 24 books, which have sold roughly 500,000 copies worldwide...
...brothers James recorded their visions. Surely horror should have become an outdated category by now. Surely science should have driven a stake through its heart. But, no, the genre is, in every sense, the home of the undead. In the '40s Critic Edmund Wilson mused about the persistence of ghost stories: "What is the reason, then -- in these days when a lonely country house is likely to be equipped with electric light, radio and telephone -- for our returning to these antiquated tales? . . . First, the longing for mystic experience which seems always to manifest itself in periods of social confusion . . . Second...
...replaced by Firestarter (1980), Cujo (1981), a nonfiction investigation of horror called Danse Macabre (1981), and a collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). In his spare time he turned out Christine and Pet Sematary (both 1983) by himself, and The Talisman (1984) in collaboration with Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story. Another collection of short stories appeared in 1985. And still that did not exhaust King. Because publishers were wary of overkill, he submitted five other novels under another name. When Richard Bachman's cover was blown, after Thinner climbed aboard the best-seller list, the pretense was shelved...
...Hutter, a professor of English at UCLA, calls King's "brilliant creation of a shared nightmare." A marriage breaks up and a trusted dog suddenly turns on its owners; a teenager's love affair with his Plymouth Fury is totaled when the car is possessed by the vengeful ghost of a previous owner; the caretaker of a vast mountain resort hotel finds himself slowly overtaken by the malevolent spirits envisioned by his little boy; two college students volunteer for a government experiment and become parents of a daughter with a unique gift: she can make things burst into flame with...
News Editors for this Issue: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '86-'87 Night Editors: Kristin A. Goss '87 Matthew H. Joseph '88 Copy Editor: Casper the Friendly Ghost '90 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Photo Editor: Lisa Clark '89 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse...