![]() ![]() King found inspiration in the Dugway sheep incident of March 1968, an episode in which some 6000 sheep dropped dead on ranches near the army’s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. ![]() Chemical weapons tests helped spark Stephen King’s thinking. The land of Mordor ("where the shadows lie, according to Tolkien) was played by Las Vegas.” 3. ![]() “Only instead of a hobbit, my hero was a Texan named Stu Redman, and instead of a Dark Lord, my villain was a ruthless drifter and supernatural madman named Randall Flagg. King set out to pen The Stand to scratch a 10-year itch to “write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting.” Wrote King: Stephen King wanted to pay tribute to a fantasy master. In this early iteration, the virus apparently originates in Southeast Asia. Stephen King first dreamed up the superflu known as “Captain Trips” in the 1969 science fiction short story “Night Surf,” which was published in the University of Maine’s Ubris literary journal. Even if you’ve read every word of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic classic, you may still be able to learn something about one of the horror master’s most popular works. ![]()
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![]() Stylistically, the story deliberately ignores many of the conventional "rules of good writing", including a paragraph about jelly beans which is almost entirely one run-on sentence. It is nonlinear in that the narrative begins in the middle, then moves to the beginning, then the end, without the use of flashbacks. " 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is a dystopian science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison that was published in 1965. ![]() "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Use the lead layout guide to ensure the section follows Wikipedia's norms and is inclusive of all essential details. The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten. ![]() ![]() ![]() The accused was seen near the coaster on the night of the sabotage his fingerprints were found on the missing pieces of the coaster and he owned an acetylene torch needed to commit the sabotage. But where to start? After all, all of the evidence points to his client's guilt. Along with his sister Becca, and private investigator Cameron Mills, it is Elijah's job to present the best defense possible, in the hopes that the jury will see things his way. ![]() When an employee is accused of sabotaging a brand new rollercoaster in order to kill his overly curious boss, Elijah refuses to believe it. 17 short (sometimes very, very short) stories about the end of the world, by gods, war, pollution, alien invasion, robot insurrection, and passing away gently when time has run out.Writers of the Future winner Luc Reid offers the human side of the end of the world-even when there are no humans involved.Elijah Deville is a crafty lawyer. ![]() |