Summary

On the film’s 50th anniversary, King looks back at the nearly discarded pages, the bargain-basement movie deal and the 1976 classic that transformed horror. In the early 1970s, Stephen King was a struggling and frustrated English teacher in Maine with a wife, two small children and a stack of bills that seemed to be growing much faster than his literary career. During the day, he taught teenagers at Hampden Academy.

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