Forwald, Haakon, 3
fountain of youth, 191
Fountain of Youth Agricultural Park, 192
fragmentation reproduction, 42
Frankenstein (Shelley), 199, 199
Freeman, Brian, 134
Freneau, Philip, 57
Freud, Sigmund, 71
friend, meeting because of Stephen King, 164–165
friendship, child, 67
From a Buick 8 (King), 147–153
plot, 148
fungi, 41–42, 144
G
Gacy, John Wayne, 70
Gage, Phineas, 168
Gaia.com, 193
Galistan, Diane, 98
Gamble, Sera, 140
Gardner, Randy, 110
Garfield, James A., 181
gastrointestinal disease, 65
Gaunt, Leland, 80, 104, 109
Gellar, Uri, 214–215
Gerald’s Game (King), 80
Getting It On (Bachman/King), 25
“Ghosts,” 129
Gibney, Holly, 196, 208–210
Gibson, William, 201
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
(King), 124–128
inspiration, 124
plot, 124, 127
pneumonia, 127
global warming, 174–177
God of the Lost, 124
Goldberg, Joe, 149
Goldberg, Phyllis, 213
Goldman, Rachel, 56–57
Goldman, Zelda, 56–57
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 73
Gordon, Tom, 124
Gothic fiction, 18
government, 211
Governor’s Highway Safety Association, 63
Grady, Delbert, 142
grave robbers, 22
gravitational field manipulation, 3
gravity, 78
Gray, Mr., 145
“Gray Matter” (King), 38–39
“The Great New England Vampire Panic” (Smithsonian), 20–21
Greene, Andy, 86
greenhouse gases, 176
The Green Mile (King), 50, 118–123, 126
healer, 119
mouse, 119
plot, 118–119
Grenadine, Richie, 38–39, 41–42
grief, 159–162, 172
anticipatory, 172
Grim Reaper, 99–100, 116–117
Grisham, John, 118
Griswold, Connecticut, 20–21
groupthink, 20
Guardian, 92, 211
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, 121
guillotine, 121, 121
Guinness World Records, 111
gun
control, 28
residue, 188
Guns (King), 29
The Gunslinger (King), 203
Guth, Alan, 78–79
Gwendy’s Button Box (King and Chizmar), 129–136
creation of, 133
plot, 130–131, 136
Gwendy’s Magic Feather (Chizmar), 133
gypsy, 62
pie, 66
H
Hafdahl, Luke, 39–40
Hafdahl, Meg, 11
Halleck, Billy, 61–62, 64, 66
hallucination
auditory, 92, 94, 162
visual, 162
hands, clawlike, 66
hanging, 121
Hantavirus, 145
Hargenson, Chris, 8
Harris, Ed, 29
Hartsfield, Brady, 196–197, 201
Haut, Walter, 90
Haven, Maine, 87
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 18
healers, 119–120
healing hole, 191
health, 62
Heath High School, 29
Hedberg, Elaine, 151
Hedberg, James, 182
Helgenberger, Marg, 86
Henn, Rainer, 62
Hensel, Abby, 96
Hensel, Brittany, 96
heroin, 75, 77
detoxing, 78
effect on the body, 78
Hezekiah’s Gate, 107–108
Hidden Bodies (Kepnes), 140
Hippocrates, 5, 167
“Historical Examination of United States Intentional Mass School Shootings in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Implications for Students, Schools, and Society,” 27
Hitler, Adolf, 185
HIV/AIDS, 36–37
HMHS Britannica, 132
The Hobbit (Tolkien), 203
hobbling, 82
hobo, 68–69
Hodges, Bill, 196, 200, 204
Holmes, Odetta, 74
Hooke, Robert, 154–155
Hopley, Duncan, 66
horror literature, 134
House Select Committee on Assassination, 188
“Humbug” (The X-Files), 97
Huneke, R. J., 198–203
hunger, 127
Hunter, Evan, 25
Hutton, Timothy, 96
hyperesthesia, 144
hyperthyroidism, 65
I
ichthyosis, 65
identity theft, 202
If It Bleeds (King), 210
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” (Dickinson), 99
Illustrated Man, 10
“The Indian Burying Ground” (Freneau), 57
indigenous people
Wendigo legend, 58–60
indigenous people and land rights, 57
inflation, 78–79
Innocence Project, 206
insomnia, 111
acute, 111
chronic, 111–112
comorbid, 112
maintenance, 112
onset, 112
record, 110
Insomnia (King), 110–117
harbingers of death, 116
history of, 110
inspiration, 110
plot, 117
The Institute (King), 211–219
inspiration, 211
plot, 212
Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), 174
International Business Times, 98
Irving, Washington, 18
Ishango Bone, 6, 7
isolation, 11–12
It (King), 14–15, 67–72, 136
childhood friendships, 67
films, 67
length, 67
plot, 67
trauma, 67
J
Jackson, Michael, 129
Jackson, Shirley, 18
Jacobson, Annie, 215
Jenkins, Deputy Coroner, 122
Jenner, Edward, 52
Jentsch, Ernst, 71
Jerusalem’s Lot, 18–19
appearance in other stories, 19
history, 19
Jessup, Violet, 132
jester, 69
Jesus, 55, 55
Jewett City, Rhode Island, 21
Jingles, Mr., 119
Joker, 69
Jones, Jim, 131
Jonestown Massacre, 130, 132
Joo, Ilana, 192
Journal of Religion & Psychical Research, 104
Journal of Scientific and Applied Photography, 112
Journal of Social Psychology, 197
K
Kandel, Eric, 206
Kapa, Ryan, 28
Kelly, Emmett, 68
Kemmler, William, 122
Kennedy, John F., 181
assassination, 187–188
Kepnes, Caroline, 140–141
King, Owen, 129, 205
King, Stephen
addictions, 13, 61, 86, 92
clowns, 72
collaboration, 129
criticism of technology, 199–200
descriptions, 74
evil, 153
friend being hit by train, 12–13
hit by a car, 139, 146, 159–160, 166
inspiration for other authors, 10
intervention, 92
Kennedy assassination memory, 181
life, 3–4
mortality, 159
popularity, key to, 1
pseudonym, 25–26, 94, 129
renaissance of, 135
shock as a child, 12
weight, 61
writing career, 3–4
King, Tabitha (Spruce), 3–4, 92, 159
Kingdom Hospital, 159
Kirlian, Semyon, 112
Kirlian digital aura camera, 113, 115
Klebold, Dylan, 29
Koch, Robert, 22
Kreuger, Freddy, 67
Kruszelnicki, Karl, 106
Kubler-Ross, 172
Kubrick, Stanley, 12
L
Landon, Lisa, 159
Landon, Scott, 162
Lazarus, 55, 55
Leadbetter, Charles Webster, 112
Lemke, Susanna, 63, 66
Lennon, John, 29
Leone, Sergio, 73
Leo X, Pope, 192
leptin, 39
lethal injection, 123
Levenson, Marlene, 214
LIFE, 4
life expectancy, 118
Lincoln, Abraham, 22, 181
ling chi, 121
Lisey’s Story (King), 159–165
inspiration, 159
marriage and grief, 159