When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.
Stephen KingA person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.
Stephen KingBut it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
Stephen KingThe glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Stephen KingI hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.
Stephen King