SOURCE: "Peter Straub and Stephen King Team Up for Fear," in People, Vol. 23, No. 4, January 28, 1985, pp. 50-52.

Below, Small interviews Straub and King about their collaboration on The Talisman and possible future projects.

For two years a dark mysterious mass lurked inside the word processors linked by phone to horror novelist Stephen King's home in Maine and spook writer Peter Straub's in Connecticut. Finally, in November, the thing emerged in the form of America's current No. 1 best-seller, The Talisman. A 644-page fantasy about a 12-year-old boy's odyssey in a netherworld filled with vicious werewolves and killer trees, The Talisman is a triumph of terror, and Steven Spielberg has already snapped up the film rights. Thanks to the book's immediate success, the authors have foregone a lengthy book tour. They did agree, however, to a breakfast interview with Assistant Editor Michael Small. After swapping gory stories over eggs, they...