Stephen King- God of horror

[tachii]

having grown up on king how could i not love him. first films ever watched were Pet Sematary and Misery (don't remember the order in which they were released).

books:
pet sematary
the stand
cujo
carrie

[cyqe]

Just like Urgeok, I'm old enough that I've been reading Stephen's books as they came out,starting with Carrie when I was 10 years old. I have never seen Stephen King as a horror writer. Nothing that he writes scares me. He is, however, a master storyteller. I've read everything that he has written and have kept all of his books, just because I am that constant reader he is always talking about.
I was never bored until he got hit by the van and then suddenly his stories started to suck. It was as if everything that he wrote was a screenplay for a movie. His characters became shallow and his writing was more action orientated.
I will always read each book as it comes out because I am that faithful but I will always miss the real stories.

[spookychild]

I love Stephen King's writting but I wouldn't call him a God
It is my favorit Stpehen King book. I've read it more times than I care to count.

Originally posted by scaredsilly
how can you love horror and not love stephen king. i'm 24 now and i've loved him since i was about 9. :)

The fact that you loved him at the tender age of nine sort of explains why his horror is not regarded as scary by so many.;)

[evilreign]

yeah, he rights good stories, but I cant say I have ever been scared by one.

[Miss Olivia]

I have. Pet Sematary scared the hell out of me, maybe because I read the book before I ever saw the movie. The passages about the Wendigo and the swamp, and the constellations that were wrong all really freaked me out. I usually get really wrapped up in the books I read, though. I have a really active imagination, and when I read things, I usually dream about them at night.

[evilreign]

Well true I haven't read PEt semetary which they say is his scariest book.

[Miss Olivia]

It's definitely worth it.

[evilreign]

without any spoilers, what is a general overview of the plot?

[Miss Olivia]

Here's the overview from the front of the book:

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 to good to be true. It was. For the truth itself was bloodchilling--something more horrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful...


If you have a family, this book is harder to read. I can honestly say, though, that there are passages that made every hair on my body stand on end, and my skin raise into goosebumps. It involves raising the dead, and evil spirits, and things that go bump in the night. This is King's scariest book by far, in my opinion. And I've read every book of his that was written before 1998 or so. That's around the time I read Insomnia and hated it to the point where I stopped bothering.