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
S
sadism, 193
Sadistic Personality Disorder, 193
Saldivar, Yolanda, 83
Salem, Massachusetts, 20
witch trials, 20
Salem’s Lot (King), 18–24, 109, 165
protectiveness, 24
and rural gothic fiction, 19
vampires, 24
Salinger, J. D., 29
sanitary belt, Hoosier, 6
sarin gas, 34
Saw, 86
Schaeffer, Rebecca, 83
Schiro, George, 107
Schizoaffective Disorder, 85
schizophrenia, 83–85
and violence, 85
school security, 28
“The School Shooting/Violent Video Game Link: Causal Relationship or Moral Panic?” (Ferguson), 29–30
school violence, 27–29
cause, 29–30
The Science of Monsters (Hafdahl and Florence), 11
Scituate Reservoir, 87
screenplay adaptation process, 139–142
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), 168–169
Secret Service, 30
seizure, 156
Selena, 83
sensory processing disorder, 209–210
serialization, 118
serotonin, 39
Shakur, Tupac, 31
Sheldon, Paul, 80, 85
Shelley, Mary, 199, 199
shining, 190
“The Shining: The Hellish World of the Tyrannical Patriarch” (Derin), 12
The Shining (King), ix, 10–17, 50, 116, 135, 140–142, 217
alcohol abuse, 11, 13–14
balance of good and evil, 17
domestic abuse, 11–12
film, 140–142
inspiration for, 11
isolation, 11–12
movie, 12
opera, 190
patriarch, tyrannical, 12
short stories, 38
Shumway, Julia, 178
Signet Books, 4
Simon, Helmut, 62
Simons, Laurent, 211
skin conditions, 65
sleep, need for, 110–111. See also Insomnia
Sleeping Beauties (King and King), 129–130
Sleeping Beauty, 129
smallpox, 34–35
vaccine, 52
Smith, Bryan, 159
Smithsonian, 20
Smits, Jimmy, 86
smoking and quitting, 44, 61
benefits, 44
Smythe, James, 92–93
snow birds, 166
sonic weapons, 156
soul, 104, 109, 193–194, 203
Beowulf, 105
and Christianity, 104
and Hinduism, 104–105
and Islam, 104
photographs, 106
weight of, 106–107
spacetime, 182–183
Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 54
Speer, Albert, 156
spinal meningitis, 56–57
St. Augustine, Florida, 192
The Stand (King), 32–37, 165
inspiration for, 32–33
pandemic, 35
Stanley Hotel, 11, 116
Stark, George, 93–96, 100
Star Trek TNG time travel, 184
Stephen King Revisited (Chizmar), 135
Stoker, Bram, 18
Storm of the Century (King), 77
Straub, Peter, 129
Strickland, Ashley, 97
string theory, 79
Stroby, Wallace, 110
Stroud, Les, 124–126
suicidal thoughts, 9
sunlight, 169
survival ism, 124–126
Survivorman, 124
Survivorman Three Areas of Assessment, 125
symbiotic relationships, 145
synesthesia, 209
Szentes, Dorotta, 192
T
tails, 66
vestigial, 66
The Talisman (King and Straub), 129
tampons, 6
tapeworms, 64–65
technology, 198–199, 204
impact on living things, 157
and media, 200–201
telekinesis, 4, 9, 201, 212–213
telepathy, 88, 139, 144–145, 200
telephone
history, 154–155
transatlantic call, 155
Tel Lachish, 108
teratoma, 98
Tesla. See Cars, self-driving
Texas School Book Depository, 187
Thanatos, 116
Thinner (King), 61–66, 93–94
curse, 62, 65–66
inspiration for, 61
plot, 62, 64, 66
Thomas, Ben, 106–107
Thunberg, Greta, 176
time travel, 182–184
Tipler, Frank, 183
Tipler cylinder, 183
tobacco death rate, 43
Tolkien, J. R. R., 32, 73, 203
The Tommyknockers (King), 86–91
film, 86
influences, 87
plot, 87–88, 91
quality of, 96
Tool, 31
Torrance, Danny, 14, 190, 195
Torrance, Jack, 11–12, 14, 17, 142
Torrance, Wendy, 15
torture, 43–44
traffic accidents, 63
cause of, 150
tramp, 68–69
The Tramp, 68
trauma, 57, 67
childhood, 12–14
key to overcoming, 57
Trenton, Donna, 52
Trenton, Ted, 52
Trolley Problem, 152–153
Trucks (King), 129, 147, 150
Trump, Donald, 211
tuberculosis, 21–24
twin
absorption, 95
conjoined, 95, 95, 96
Dicephalic Parapagus, 96
parasitic, 96–98
parasitic, surgery, 97
Siamese, 95, 95
typhoid, 145–146
Typhoid Mary, 145
U
Uber, 151
UFOs, 89–90
uncanny, concept of, 71
Under the Dome (King), 165, 173–178
plot, 173
thought process behind, 173–174
United States Marines, 189
University of California Berkeley, 55
University of Maine, 3
University of Turku, 143
U.S. Air Force, 89–90
USA Today, 166
US Department of Transportation, 150
US Radium Corporation, 87–88
Utah, 32–33
V
vaccination, 35
animal, 52–53
anthrax, 53
history, 52–53
smallpox, 52
vampire, 24, 190
panic, 20–21, 21, 22
VanHentenryk, Kevin, 96
vascular disease, 166
“The Veldt” (Bradbury), 10–11
Vicari, Frank, 97
video games and school shooting, 29–30
Vincent, Bev, 134
virus
coronavirus, 32, 37, 146
Hantavirus, 145
macro, 145
The Vocation of Man (Fichte), 184
Volo Auto Museum, 149
The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 191
W
Walpole, Harold, 18
Wan, James, 86
Warnecke, Dieter, 62–63
Warnick, Bryan R., 28
Warren Commission report, 186
Washington Post, 94
The Waste Lands (King), 200
water, finding, 126
“Weary Willy,” 68
weather and healing, 168–169
weight loss, 61
reasons for, 64–65
Wendigo, legend of, 58–60
Wendy’s, 198
Westside Middle School, 29
White, Carrie, 4, 217
White, Margaret, 5, 7–8
Wikipedia, 96
Wilkes, Annie, 80, 82–83, 85
Williams, Robin, 70
William Wilson (Poe), 205
Wireman, Jerome, 171–172
witch
touch test, 19
trials, 20
wolves
domestication of, 48–49