Stephen King (born 1947) is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction. In his works, King blends elements of the traditional gothic tale with those of the modern psychological thriller...
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Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Two years later, his father, a merchant seaman, went to the grocery store for a pa...
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Stephen King has written twenty-six novels (including five under the pen name Richard Bachman), five collections of short fiction, one book of criticism, six screenplays, and other short works. Accord...
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Nicholls is an Australian critic. In the following review of Skeleton Crew, he lauds King's use of colloquial images and dialect, while asserting that occasionally King's use of vulgar l...
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Dolan is an American educator and critic. In the following review of Skeleton Crew, he suggests that King's stories are powerful because of the "realization by the reader that the line b...
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In the following review, Bolotin provides a mixed assessment of Skeleton Crew.
Stephen King's fiction, at its best, is equivalent to the post-Expressionist art found in the tiny galleries of...
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In the following essay, Magistrale offers a mixed assessment of King's short fiction collection Skeleton Crew and asserts that the stories focus on the same themes as King's longer ficti...
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Stockholm/Copenhagen (dpa) - More than 100 flights operated by the
SAS Group were cancelled Friday over the recent decision to ground
its fleet of propeller aircraft of the ...
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Royal Dutch Shell evacuated staff from two oil installations in southern Nigeria and the military boosted troop levels in the volatile area Tuesday after a dozen village elders were killed in a riv...
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Riga (dpa) - A Cypriot-registered freighter which ran aground off
the Latvian coast Monday is still leaking "small amounts" of oil,
with no salvage yet possible, authorities...
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Stockholm/Copenhagen (dpa) - As investigations continued into the
possible cause of the two emergency landings earlier this week, the
SAS Group on Friday cancelled weekend f...
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson raised at least $2 million for his presidential campaign, a tally that puts him in good standing in the race for the Democratic nomination.Almost 1,000 people attend...
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Most of Mexico's offshore oil and gas production shut down Tuesday as a weakened Hurricane Dean swirled into the Gulf of Mexico. Skeleton crews kept oil flowing near the central coast, where Dean w...
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Wellington (dpa) - A Japanese whaling factory ship remained
crippled and drifting Friday near Antarctica as a fire continued to
burn after more than 30 hours in the processi...
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Wellington (dpa) - New Zealand urged the Japanese government
Friday to immediately move a whaling factory ship crippled by fire
out of Antarctic waters to remove the threat ...
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Wellington (dpa) - The body of a sailor who disappeared when fire
broke out on a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica was discovered
Saturday in the burned-out processing s...
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Critical Essay by Peter Nicholls
SAS cancels flights over grounded propeller planes
