SOURCE: "'A Single Powerful Spectacle': Stephen King's Gothic Melodrama," in Extrapolation, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 62-75.
In the following essay, Egan analyzes King's use of elements of the gothic and the melodramatic in his work.
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