Stephen King - Lets Talk About Fear

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Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.

The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It's night. Sometimes when the wind

blows the way it's blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it's on, and so let's talk very honestly about fear.

Let's talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madness. . . and perhaps over the edge.

My name is Stephen King. I am a grown man with a wife and three children. I love them, and I believe that the

feeling is reciprocated. My job is writing, and it's a job I like very much. The stories - Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, and

The Shining - have been successful enough to allow me to write full-time, which is an agreeable thing to be able

to do. At this point in my life I seem to be reasonably healthy. In the last year I have been able to reduce my

cigarette habit from the unfiltered brand I had smoked since I was eighteen to a low nicotine and tar brand, and I

still hope to be able to quit completely. My family and I live in a pleasant house beside a relatively unpolluted

lake in Maine; last fall I awoke one morning and saw a deer standing on the back lawn by the picnic table. We

have a good life.

Still. . . let's talk about fear. We won't raise our voices and we won't scream; we'll talk rationally, you and I. We'll

talk about the way the good fabric of things sometimes has a way of unravelling with shocking suddenness.

At night, when I go to bed, I still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blanket after the lights go out.

I'm not a child any more but. . .I don't like to sleep with one leg sticking out. Because if a cool hand ever reached

out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, I might scream. Yes, I might scream to wake the dead. That sort of

thing doesn't happen, of course, and we all know that. In the stories that follow you will encounter all manner of

night creatures; vampires, demon lovers, a thing that lives in the closet, all sorts of other terrors. None of them

are real. The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm

careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Sometimes I speak before groups of people who are interested in writing or in literature, and before the question-

and-answer period is over, someone always rises and asks this question: Why do you choose to write about such

gruesome subjects?

I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that I have a choice?

Writing is a catch-as-catch-can sort of Occupation. All of us seem to come equipped with filters on the floors of

our minds, and all the filters having differing sizes and meshes. What catches in my filter may run right through

yours. What catches in yours may pass through mine, no sweat. All of us seem to have a built-in obligation to sift

through the sludge that gets caught in our respective mind-filters, and what we find there usually develops into

some sort of sideline. The accountant may also be a photographer. The astronomer may collect coins. The

schoolteacher may do gravestone rubbings in charcoal. The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that

refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession. In civilized society we have an

unspoken agreement to call our obsessions 'hobbies.'

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