Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
Author: Debbie Olson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793600139

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This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King’s works.

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
Author: Debbie Olson
Publisher: Children and Youth in Popular
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781793600127

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This collection uses the representation of children and childhood as a lens to examine both Stephen King's fictional oeuvre and several film adaptations of his works.

It

It
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982127791

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It: Chapter Two—now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times)—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It. Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It. “Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).

Children of the Corn

Children of the Corn
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101974044

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Driving through the cornfields in rural Nebraska, Burt and Vicky run over a young boy—only to discover that they may not be responsible for his death. Out in the corn, something is watching them, and help is nowhere to be found. From the unrivaled master of horror and the supernatural, Stephen King. “Children of the Corn,” first collected in the extraordinary collection Night Shift in 1973 and then adapted into a horror film franchise of the same name, is a terrifying and unforgettable classic of the genre. A Vintage Short.

Night Shift

Night Shift
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307743640

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From the undisputed master of modern American horror: His first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune). • INCLUDES THE STORY “THE BOOGEYMAN” – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20th CENTURY STUDIOS Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is the inspiration for over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn, Chapelwaite, and Lawnmower Man. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); a man convinced that a crack in the closet is responsible for the murder of his children ("The Boogeyman"); and many more shadows and visions that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501157515

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A frightening suspense novel about nine-year-old Trisha, who becomes lost in the woods as night falls.

Some Day

Some Day
Author: Shemi Zarhin
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939931045

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On the shores of Israel’s Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias, a place bursting with sexuality and longing for love. The air is saturated with smells of cooking and passion. Seven-year-old Shlomi, who develops a remarkable culinary talent, has fallen for Ella, the strange girl next door with suicidal tendencies; his little brother Hilik obsessively collects words in a notebook. In the wild, selfish but magical grown-up world that swirls around them, a mother with a poet’s soul mourns the deaths of literary giants while her handsome, wayward husband cheats on her both at home and abroad. Some Day is a gripping family saga, a sensual and emotional feast that plays out over decades. The characters find themselves caught in cycles of repetition, as if they were “rhymes in a poem, cursed with history.” They become victims of inspired recipes that bring joy and calamity to the cooks and diners. Mysterious curses cause people’s hair to fall out, their necks to swell and the elimination of rational thought amid capitulation to unhealthy urges. This is an enchanting tale about tragic fates that disrupt families and break our hearts. Zarhin’s hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel’s larger national story.

Fairy Tale

Fairy Tale
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2024-06-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1668052679

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"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --

Carrie; Christine

Carrie; Christine
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Coronet
Total Pages:
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780340827772

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The Sun Dog

The Sun Dog
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982115432

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication. The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you. Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. There’s something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town’s sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it. But the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn’t exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment.