SOURCE: "What Makes Him So Scary," in Discovering Stephen King, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, Starmont House, Inc., 1985, pp. 9-14.
In the following essay, Indick surveys techniques used by Stephen King to create fear in such novels as Carrie, Pet Sematary, and The Shining.
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