The Resurgence of Stephen King

One will argue that over his long career, renown horror author Stephen King has never disappeared from the mainstream media but he’s never really been in the spotlight either. He’s kept quiet and continued to publish novels meant to brought about varying degrees of fright in his audiences. But not only has King given us some of the most terrifying tales every to be written, there subsequent adaptations to film have given us some the best horror films in cinema history. I honestly believe that some people forget some classic horror films are even based upon King’s novels. For example, when people look at Stanley Kubrick’s classic adaptation of The Shining , the see a classic film with one of the most terrifying performances of all time from Jack Nicolson. While they’re correct, it’s always important to acknlowedge the source material, which in many cases is King. Why I included the term “resurgence” as the title of this post is because now that we’re in the remake, reboot or r...