plot, 159–160
Little House on the Prairie, 125
Local Interstellar Cloud, 89
The Long Walk (Bachman/King), 29, 218
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 32, 73, 203
Losers Club, 72
lost in the woods, surviving being, 124–127
Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory, 107
Lovecraft, H.P., 87
Lovell, Maine, 159
LSD, 213
M
MacDonald, J. M., 26
MacDonald Triad, 26
MacDougall, Duncan, 105–107
MacFarland, Trisha, 124, 127–128
Machine, Alexis, 93–94
Macleod, Bonnie, 215–218
macro viruses, 145
Maitland, Terry, 205–207
Maki, Robert, 48
Mallon, Mary (Typhoid Mary), 145–146
Mapp, Sally, 81
Marcel, Jesse, 90
marriage, 159
mass hysteria, 20
mass murder, 27
matrix, 201
Matschinger, H., 84
Maximum Overdrive, 129, 147
McBain, Ed, 25
McDonald’s, 202
McGee, Charlie, 217
McGill University, 206
McKinley, William, 181
Mears, Ben, 19, 24
meat, reducing consumption of, 177
Medical News Today, 37
medium, 217–218
Melendez, Sara, 13–17
Memelink, Andrew, 75–78
memories
changing, 206
long-term, 206
repressed, 160
short-term, 206
menstruation, 5–7
and asthma, 6
calendar, 6, 6, 7
and lunar calendar, 7
and otherness, 6
products, 6–7
vicarious, 5
mental health, 161
reform, 28
mental illness
depiction, 16
stigma, 85
messages, subliminal, 197–198, 201–203
Metallica, 31
methamphetamine, 117
“Methods for Studying Coincidences” (Diaconis and Mosteller), 131
mice, training, 119
Miescher, Friedrich, 207
Miller, Laura, 148
mimes, 69
mindfulness techniques, 57
mirror therapy, 167
Misery (King), 80–85
film, 83
good and evil, 80
pain relief, 82
plot, 80, 82
The Mist (King), 148
MK-Ultra, 212–214
Monell Chemical Senses Center, 38
monsters, 210
Moore, Kate, 87
Moriarity, Erin, 215
Morrison, Dick, 43–44
Morse, Donald R., 104
Mosteller, Frederik, 131
motivational tools, 43–44
Motorola, 155
Mount Ararat, 108, 109
Mr. Mercedes (King), 190, 196–204
app, 201
inspiration, 196
plot, 196–197, 204
subliminal messages, 201
Mueller, Theresa Hoglund, 169–170
Murray, Gilbert, 144
music
as defense to murder, 31
and hostility, 31
and school shooting, 30–31
Musical Ear Syndrome, 92
Myers, Michael, 67
N
Nader, Karim, 206
Nagasaki bombing, 185
Napoleon, 34
NASA, 182
breakthrough propulsion physics program, 182–183
National Alliance on Mental Illness, 163
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 74, 78
National Traffic Safety Board, 151
near-death experiences, 195
Needful Things (King), 80, 103–109, 133, 165
plot, 104, 107
Nelson, Lewis, 34
Nelson, Winona, 58–60
Neuromancer (Gibson), 201
neutron activation analysis, 188
Newman, Katherine, 28
Newsday, 198
Newton, Isaac, 184
New York Times, 4, 87, 106, 148
Nicholson, Jack, 142
nicotine addiction, 43. See also
Smoking and quitting; Tobacco
death rate
body’s response, 44
Nightshift (King), 38–44
fungi, 41–42
television show adaptation, 38
nineteen, number, 73
Noah’s Ark fragment, 107–108
Norton, Susan, 19, 24
NOVA, 48
O
obesity, 63–64
obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), 208–209
Ojibwe, 58–59
On Death and Dying (Kubler-Ross), 172
“One for the Road” (King), 19
On Writing (King), 4
opera, 190
Oram, Chamdre, 66
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 181–182, 186–189
Ötzi the Ice Man, 62–63, 63
out-of-body-experience (OBE), 194–195
The Outsider (King), 205–210
blood type, 107
fingerprints, 207
inspiration, 205
plot, 206, 210
overdose, drug, 78, 156
Overlook Hotel, 11, 141, 195
Owens, Dedric Darnell, 28
Oxford, 7
P
pandemic, 35–36
Pangborn, Alan, 104
panic disorder, 9
parallel universes, 78–79, 162
parasites, 64
Pare, Ambrose, 167
parenting
authoritative, 8
lack of affection, 8
religious, 7, 16
religious and child abuse, 7
Parkland Memorial Hospital, 187
Pasteur, Louis, 52–53
Patch Adams, 70
patriarch, tyrannical, 12
Pennywise the clown, 67, 69, 72
persuasion, subliminal, 197
Pet Semetary (King), 50–51, 54–60, 217
burial grounds, 57
film, 129
inspiration, 54
meningitis, 56–57
trauma, 56–57
Wendigo, legend of, 58–60
phantom limb sensation, 167
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (Jacobson), 215
The Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 118
Pituch, Ronald, 31
plague, 33, 35–36
plants, edible, 124–125
plot points, changing for film, 141
Plymouth Fury, 147–148
pneumonia, 127–128, 159
Poe, Edgar Allan, 18, 205
Poltergeist, 69
Portland, Maine, 3
The Possibility of Evil (Jackson), 18
pregnancy, 39
Privacy Badger, 202
protagonists, 80
“Protecting Students from Gun Violence: Does ‘target hardening’ do more harm than good?” (Warnick and Kapa), 28–29
pseudonym, 25–26
psoriasis, 65
Psychiatry Today, 83–84
psychic driving, 214
psychic surgery, 119–120
Psychological Strategy Board, 89
psychopomp, 98–100
psychopomps.org, 99
Pumpkinhead, 210
Q
quarantine, 146
quark-gluon plasma, 79
“Quitters, Inc.” (King), 43–44
motivational tools, 43
plot, 43
R
rabies, 156
Radcliffe, Ann, 18
Radcliffe, Sally, 104, 108
Radford, Ben, 68
Radin, Dean, 215
radiocarbon dating, 107–108
radium, 87–88
Radium Girls, 87–88
Radium Girls (Moore), 87
Rage (Bachman/King), 25
censorship, 29
history of manuscript, 25
inspiration for school shooting, 29
plot, 26–27
revenge, 26
school violence, 27
Rajapaksa, Roshini, 127
Ramey, Roger, 90
ransomware, 202
reading, importance of, 10
Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe (Radin), 215
“Re-Branding Stephen King” (Smythe), 92
Reilly, Shawn, 149
reincarnation, 105
Reiner, Rob, 83
reinforcement, negative, 43–44
Reis, Philipp, 155
relativity, theory of, 182
relics, 107, 109
religion
and happiness, 8
and health, 7–8
and parenting, 7, 16
and science, 107
research for books, 13
revenge, 26
Revonsuo, Antti, 143
rewards, 44
rheumatoid arthritis, 103–104
Richard, Eugene C., 148
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (King), 77
RMS Olympic, 132
RMS Titanic, 132
Roadwork (Bachman/King), 29
Roberts, Ralph, 110, 112, 116–117
Robinson, Jerome, 196
Rolling Stone, 86
Romani people, 62
Romano, Aja, 1
“Ronnie” (Metallica), 31
Rope Technique, 194
Rose Madder (King), 14–15
domestic abuse, 15–16
sexual addiction, 15
Rose the Hat, 190
Rossington, Cary, 65
Rossington, Judge, 65
Roswell, New Mexico, 89–90
Roswell Incident, 89–90
Royal Humane Society of London, 54
The Running Man (Bachman/King), 29
Rusk, Brian, 104
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 34