Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing
(By Stephen King)
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Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing is an exclusive Book-of-the-Month Club anthology of hard-to-find non-fiction pieces, little-known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own "windows" - or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King's humor and wisdom.
Included in this collection are unpublished early fiction (very early; King was twelve when he wrote "Jumper" and "Rush Call"); a pre-Carrie article with tips for selling stories to men's magazines ("The Horror Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story"); advice to his son on writing (with the look-twice title "Great Hookers I Have Known"); recommendations to teen readers in a Seventeen article ("What Stephen King Does for Love"); a long chapter from his wonderful treatise on the horror genre ("Horror Fiction" from Danse Macabre); and even a first-time-in-print short story, "In the Deathroom" (just for fun).
Intended as a companion to Stephen King's 2000 book On Writing, Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing captures the author's mind in action-spontaneous, subversive, quirky, yet morally and ethically serious. Together, they comprise virtually the sum of the thoughts on writing of the dominant force in American fiction for the past three decades.
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• Introduction by Peter Straub
• Dave's Rag: Jumper, Rush Call
• The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story
• Foreword to Night Shift
• On Becoming a Brand Name
• "Horror Fiction" from Danse Macabre
• An Evening at the Billerica Library
• The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
• How It Happened
• Banned Books and Other Concerns
• Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader
• "Ever Et Raw Meat?" and Other Weird Questions
• A New Introduction to John Fowles's The Collector
• What Stephen King Does for Love
• Two Past Midnight: A Note on "Secret Window, Secret Garden"
• Introduction to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
• Great Hookers I Have Known
• A Night at the Royal Festival Hall: An Interview by Muriel Gray
• An Evening with Stephen King: March 30, 1999
• In the Deathroom”
