![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() King applies naturalistic methods to an environment created by popular culture. From such premises, they move cinematically through an atmosphere resonant with a popular mythology. ![]() The characters have the trusted two-dimensional reality of kitsch: They originate in clichés such as the high school “nerd” or the wise child. King’s fictions begin with premises accepted by middle Americans of the television generation, opening in suburban or small-town America-Derry, Maine, or Libertyville, Pennsylvania-and have the familiarity of the house next door and the 7-Eleven store. Even a zombie lurching through the night” is a “cheerful” thought in the context of a “dissolving ozone layer.” As a surrogate author in The Mist explains King’s mission, “when the technologies fail, when… religious systems fail, people have got to have something. From the beginning, his dark parables spoke to the anxieties of the late twentieth century. September 21, 1947) may be known as a horror writer, but he calls himself a “brand name,” describing his style as “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and a large fries from McDonald’s.” His fast-food version of the “plain style” may smell of commercialism, but that may make him the contemporary American storyteller without peer. ![]()
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