The science of Stephen King
Subtitle: from Carrie to Cell, the terrifying truth behind the horror master's fiction
By: by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg.
Contributors: Weinberg, Robert E.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780471782476
Subjects: King, Stephen, -- 1947- -- Knowledge -- Science; Science in literature
Description: Introduction: Where Science and Fiction Intersect -- From Proms to Cells: The Psychic World of Stephen King -- Carrie -- Firestarter -- The Dead Zone -- Hearts in Atlantis Cell -- The Green Mile -- On the Highway with Stephen King -- "Trucks"--They Came From Outer Space -- Dreamcatcher -- The Tommyknockers -- The Fourth Horseman -- The Stand -- Up the Dimensions with Stephen King -- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger -- Insomnia -- Traveling in Time with Stephen King - The Langoliers -- Parallel Worlds -- "The Mists" -- From a Buick 8 -- The Dark Tower -- The Tailisman -- Longevity an Genetic Research - The Golden Years -- Evil, Obsession, and Fear -- The Tommyknockers -- Carrie -- The Talisman -- It -- The Stand -- Danse Macabre -- The Shining -- Misery -- "Night Surf."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.