SOURCE: "Stephen King's Canon: The Art of Balance," in A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction, edited by Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison, University of South Carolina Press, 1996, pp. 42-54.
In the following essay, Casebeer traces influences from King's life that have affected his writing and delineates different stages and common elements in his fiction.
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