Cell (King), 147, 154–158, 199
cell phone batteries, 157
foaming at the mouth, 156
inspiration, 154
technology impacting life, 157–158
“The Pulse,” 156
cell phones, 154
batteries, 157
history, 155
prevalence of, 157–158
cells, 56
cemeteries, pet, 58
Cemetery Dance Magazine and Publications, 132, 134–135
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44, 51, 146
Central Maine Hospital, 159
Chambers, Polly, 104
Chaplin, Charlie, 68
Chapman, Jay, 123
Chapman, Mark David, 29
characters, balancing, 140
chemical-biological warfare, 32–33
Chernobyl disaster, 185–186
Chester’s Mills, Maine, 173
child abuse, 7
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” (Browning), 73
Chizmar, Richard, 130, 132–136
Christine (King), 50, 147
crumpling vehicle special effects, 147
CIA, 212–214
City College of New York Planetarium, 182
clairaudience, 213
clairvoyance, 215–218
Clawson, Frederick, 93–94
climate change, 175
mitigation, 175–177
Clostridium difficile, 42
clowns, 67–68
evil, 69
fear of, 67–68, 70–71
history of, 68–70
medical, 70–71
suspicious sightings, 71–72
CNN, 97
cocaine, 86, 92
Coffey, John, 118–119, 123
coincidence, 131
and personality, 131–132
“Coincidences and the Meaning of Life” (Beck), 131
Cold Mountain Penitentiary, 123
cold weather and health, 127
“The Colour Out of Space” (Lovecraft), 87
Columbia University, 206
Columbine High School, 20, 28–29
coma, 111
Commedia dell’Arte, 68–69
The Conjuring, 86
Connally, John, 187
Connecticut Historical Society, 22
consumption. See Tuberculosis Cooper, Martin, 155
Cornish, Robert E., 55
coronavirus, 32, 37, 146
corpse reanimation, 54–55
Corthron, Kara Lee, 139–142
cosmic strings, 183
coulrophobia, 68, 70–72
exposure therapy, 72
counselors, depictions of, 164
Crandall, Jud, 60
cravings, food, 38–39
and brain, 39
and emotional eating, 39
and hormone imbalance, 39
and nutritional imbalances, 39
Creative Pilgrimages, 169
creek, following, 125
Creepshow, 38
crematoriums, pet, 58
crucifixion, 121
cruelty to animals, 26
CTV, 214
Cujo (King), 47–53, 184
ending, 53
metaphor for addiction, 48, 53
organization, 47
plot, 52
rabies vaccination, 52
writing process and inspiration, 47–48
curses, 62, 65–66
gypsy pie, 66
Ötzi the Ice Man, 62–63, 63
cybersecurity, 198–199, 202
cyberspace, 201
cyberverse, 198–199
Cyrurgia, 81
D
Dallas, Texas, 186
Dandelion Wine (Bradbury), 10
Dansby, Samantha, 160–165
The Dark Half (King), 92–100
auditory hallucinations, 94–95
folklore, 98
inspiration, 92
plot, 92–95, 100
sparrows, 100
twins, 96
Dark Tower, 73–74
Dark Tower Series (King), 19, 78–79, 148, 190, 203
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (King), 74, 159
Dawkins, Richard, 7
Dead Sea Scrolls, 107
The Dead Zone (King), 218
Dean, James, 149
de Anghiera, Pietro Martire, 191–192
death
cause of, 56
cell death, 56
harbingers of, 116
near-death experiences, 195
of a pet, 54
and reanimation, 54–55, 55
row, 118, 120
Decker, Charlie, 26, 31
dehydration, 126–127
in a car, 52
in a car, child deaths, 52
de Leon, Ponce, 191–192
Delmore, Dr., 36
delusion, shared, 171
Dengue fever, 145
depression, 8–9, 112
Derin, Jacob, 12
Derry, 19, 72
Deschain, Roland, 80
Diaconis, Persi, 131
Dickens, Charles, 118
Dickinson, Emily, 99
Different Seasons (King), 77, 203
dimension, fourth, 182
Discover, 106
dissociative disorders, 74, 83, 162–163, 193–194
DNA, 206–207, 207
analysis, 206
Doctor Sleep (King), 190–195
astral projection, 193–195
inspiration, 190
plot, 190
dogs, 47
attacks by, 51
cadaver, 208
death of, 50
domestication, 49
early interaction with humans, 49
evolution of into pets, 48–51
as pets, number of, 48
rabies vaccination, 52
reanimation, 55
species, 51
and wolves, 48
“Dollar Baby” policy, 38
domestic abuse, 15–16, 1112
dopamine, 44, 78
doppelganger, 205
Doubleday, 4
Down syndrome, 143
Dracula (Stoker), 18
drawing and quartering, 121–122
The Drawing of Three (King), 73–79
inspiration, 73
parallel universes, 78–79
Dreamcatcher (King), 139–146
byrum, 144–145
dreams, shared, 143
film, 139
fungus, 144
inspiration, 139
macro viruses, 145
quarantine, 146
telepathy, 144
written longhand, 139, 146
dreams, 11
lucid, 194
role of, 143
shared, 142
Ducey, Doug, 151
Duddits, 143
Dugway Proving Ground, 33, 33
Dugway sheep incident, 32–33
Duma Key (King), 166–172
Alzheimer’s disease, 170
brain injury, 168
inspiration, 166
painting, 169
phantom limb, 167
plot, 167–168, 171–172, 178
weather and healing, 168
E
East Carter High School, 28–29
Eastlake, Elizabeth, 170
Ebola, 145
eczema, 65
Edgecomb, Paul, 118, 123
Education Digest, 28
Einstein, Albert, 182
El Cuco, 210
electric chair, 122–123
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 202
Ellis, Luke, 212
empath, 215
End of Watch (King), 197, 199, 201
Energy Star products, 177
enuresis, 26
Environmental Research Letters, 177
Epping, Jake, 182, 189
ESP, 214–215
Esposito, Elaine, 111
Estes Park, Colorado, 11
European Journal of Pediatrics, 70
evidence
DNA, 206
eyewitness, 206
exhumation, 23–24
The Exorcist, 201
The Expanse, 200
extraterrestrial materials, 88–89
Eye of the Dragon (King), 41
The Eyes of the Dragon (King), 85
F
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 203
fairy tales, 59–60
fans, obsessive, 83
Faulkner, William, 18
fear, 43
“Fear and Loathing in Beverly Hill” (You), 140
fecal transplantation, 42
Federal Trade Commission, 120
Ferdinand, Franz, 185
Ferguson, Christopher, 29–30
fetus in fetu, 98
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 184
fiction
American Gothic, 18
rural gothic, 18–19
Southern American Gothic, 18
fingerprints, 207
Firestarter (King), 203, 217
firing squads, 122
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 84
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 84
Flint City, Oklahoma, 205
Florence, Kelly, 11
Florida, 166
flu, 36
foaming at the mouth, 1567
folie-a-deux. See Delusion, shared Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampire (Bell), 21