#21DaysofHorror Day 15. There was a comicon at my work this weekend. These 2 girls were nice enough to let me take their picture and were the inspiration for today‘s post. I was in my teens, in the back of our family suburban on our way out of town reading about an evil clown. I was on campus during spring break reading about people who turned into zombies after having answered a phone call. I nearly pooped my pants reading Salem‘s Lot when I 👇🏼
Reggie heard someone tiptoe to my door at 3am in the morning. I remember it raining while I was reading Dreamcatcher at my favorite place I ever lived while I had the door open smelling the rain. I remember discovering a love for the short story and the novella through you. I may have not been a constant reader but thanks for being a constant author and giving me all those nightmares. Shown are all the ones I‘ve read by him but I think I might be 👇🏼 2y
Reggie missing one or two. One last memory- I remember reading about the government stealing mail in Firestarter right before DeJoy started sabotaging the post office during the pandemic. (edited) 2y
Cinfhen That photo of the girls is 🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥 2y
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Cinfhen Love your memories 😁 2y
LeahBergen The Shining girls have always been one of my very favourite horror things! And King was a big part of my teenage reading experience, too. 🖤🖤 2y
BookwormAHN I remember reading my first Stephen King novel when I was 11. It was The Dead Zone, still one of my favorites and it was my first adult novel 🖤 2y
TrishB I throw a sickie off school to read ‘Salem‘s Lot. I was wrapped in a blanket in the living room and my dad brought me some hot chocolate in - but at a really scary bit. I jumped, he jumped and the hot chocolate went everywhere!! I‘m grateful for all the reading memories he‘s given us too. ❤️ 2y
LitStephanie @LeahBergen me too! My boyfriend and I dressed up as them for Halloween a few years back and won a costume contest. 🤣 2y
LitStephanie I love your post about reading memories! I remember reading The Shining alone in my apartment at night. Bad idea. I was so scared I herded my cats into the bathroom with me whenever I had to go because I was scared to be alone in a room, ha! 2y
vivastory @TrishB 🤣 That's hilarious 2y
vivastory @LitStephanie The Shining is hands down one of the most terrifying things I've ever read. I can definitely see why it inspired book in the freezer 2y
vivastory I really need to read Desperation & Regulators. The 25th anniversary recently passed. I didn't realize that they were both published the same day. I feel like King doesn't get enough credit for the innovative approaches to publishing that he's done over the years. 2y
TrishB @vivastory I also borrowed my Mums rosary beads and draped them across my headboard! 2y
Reggie @TrishB lol, there was this girl at school, Jessica, and her mother loved Stephen King. And her book mark was this card of the Virgin Mary with the prayer Hail Mary on the back. And she would tell us those were the only books she used that bookmark on. 2y
Reggie @LeahBergen “come play with us, Danny.” Lol🖤 2y
Reggie @BookwormAHN Wow. I love the Christopher Walken movie of that book. You know who was also at our comic con was Anthony Michael Hall. The guy who was in the Dead zone series and the new Halloween Kills. He‘ll always be the 80‘s nerd to me. 🖤 2y
Reggie @LitStephanie Thanks! And also, Lol to the cats. 🖤 2y
Reggie @vivastory to me, those two are two of his scarier books. In the Regulators, everyone in the neighborhood is trapped in a street they can‘t leave. And in the middle of all of it a car comes down the street and someone shoots from it. That very same night I had a nightmare where a car comes down our street and shoots at our green house. It was so dreadful I remember waking up so scared. 2y
Reggie @vivastory and in Desperation there is a family vacation gone sooo wrong I still get sad and angry thinking about what happens to that family. 2y
TrishB This is a great thread 😁 I don‘t really get scared now, when I was a teenager I loved that feeling even though you couldn‘t sleep and nearly wet yourself at every sound in the house!! 2y
vivastory @Reggie I've heard such great things about both books & the covers are my favorite King covers. 2y
vivastory @TrishB It really is! I've been thinking that at some point a #KingAtoZ challenge could be fun. I think it'd be interesting to see how answers would change since the previous one. 2y
TrishB @vivastory great plan 👍🏻 I really enjoyed the last one. 2y
LeahBergen @LitStephanie That‘s awesome! 🤣 2y
LitStephanie @vivastory I think The Shining is one of the scarier things I have read, too. I remember being petrified at the hedges, and also when Jack has alcohol on his breath even though there is no alcohol at the hotel. The Jack Nicholson movie is great, but the book was so much scarier. 2y
Bookzombie I love your post! It makes me want to pick up more King. This whole chat was lovely as well. Also, that photo! I agree AMH will always be the 80‘s nerd. 2y
Reggie @Bookzombie just saying if you find yourself agonizing over having to pick between watching Halloween Kills or Malignant. Pick Malignant. AMH is in Halloween Kills and plays a character so annoying I was rooting for Michael to take him out. Also, I don‘t know if you ever saw Friday the 13th part 6 where the Jason is in the Winnebago and grabs that girl into the restroom and shoves her face into the mirror. She was also there! Her name is Darcy 2y
Reggie Demoss. 2y
ValerieAndBooks Reading Cujo right now! Read it waaaay back in HS. 2y
lydiadeetz31 Stephen King The Regulators is INCREDIBLE! Highly suggest it. 2y
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