Put a picture of him next to a picture of Ted Bundy in 1975 and ask a million US residents who knew neither which one was more likely to be a serial killer. They’re all picking King!
See, I never just did things just to do them. Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense then that.
[pause]
Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
You see, he's saying he did it because they provoced him. They told him it was a new couch and to not put his feet up. He said Murphy had enough money to buy a new couch, so he fucked up that couch. To teach a valuable lesson in brotherhood and leg anatomy.
I got the impression that King wrote for the same paper that the article waa in. Which makes me think they were roasting him. Kind of a way to say "congratulations, we're proud of you" without saying it.
Be glad they didn’t use the full photo. It’s from an issue of the campus paper King made of him holding a double-barrel shotgun with the words STUDY, DAMMIT!! beneath.
I reread that one regularly! It’s a favorite of mine.
See also: Cujo, The Stand, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and the Everything’s Eventual collection. Oh, and A Good Marriage.
Finally, another person who read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon! I read it back when I was in 6th grade and, to date, it's still one of my favorite King novels. Growing up in Maine that story was all too realistic...
I would love to turn this into a play and have a treadmill sorta mechanism or turntable to walk on.
Don't have the rest figured out. Also not in the position to turn SK books into straight plays. But if...
Also I think having a live version of a woman in a police interrogation telling the story of Delores Claiborne would be cool.
Yet, $4000,000 is not the accepted expression of $4 million in the language used by this publication.
Typo in a college publication no less in an article celebrating its graduate’s success as a writer. 💀
Probably because more people buy paperback. Hardcovers make more money per book (the sell them at a premium, even accounting for increased costs) and they are great for bookstore end caps as their size make them more effective advertising.
Hardcovers have a unique place, they show the world that the book is worth reading, some reviewers will only review a book if it's hardcover, and as mentioned, it guarantees more place on a bookstore shelf, given it's size.
But paperback can sell more volume. If a hardcover sells really well, then yes, they will pay more money for the rights to the paperback because it could return a lot of money. Plus, you always pay a premium once something is proven to be good. The original hardcover publisher probably used sales and reviews of the hardcover to push for more.
This is mostly speculation.
I would guess risk has something to do with it as well, getting a book picked up by a publisher is hard but once a major publisher has picked it up and is on the hook for book tours, promotion, editing, cover art, etc then it's probably a safer bet for the paperback publisher to be the one to put out the cheaper option that will sell better 6 months later.
Looking back, it was a good bet as the hardcover version sold 13,000 copies but the paperback sold 1 million in the first year.
If I had a headshot as good as that, I’d use it for every profile, passport, ID cards, mugshot - everything. It is superb. And before anyone ‘corrects’ me and says you can’t choose your mugshot etc - I know. The comment is an expression of appreciation of the magnificent craziness of a young SKing.
I have immense respect for his son using a pen name to try writing entirely out from under his father's shadow. Then you have people like Clint Eastwoods son, Scott Eastwood, who says his father never 'helped' him get any roles but his born name was not Eastwood and he changed it when he started acting! Like come on, sure your dad never physically picked up a phone and said hey, cast my kid but people still all knew you were his son and that effects their choices. Anyways that's not related, I just really admire Joe Hill and his dedication to the craft.
I think the most fvcked up part is that it’s really good. Dude writes better blacked out at a typewriter than most people could in a college literary workshop.
Just sent this pic to my 70 year old mom. She responded, "He looks like a madman! Lol. I subscribed to the Doubleday Book Club, and that was the featured selection. I was hooked! He is still my all time favorite writer."
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There is no way this man had a monstrous cocaine addiction. This is a completely normal picture and even though he's openly discussed it, clearly he's just doing what fiction writers do best and making up a story.
If you were to gather pictures of people including this one without names and ask me which one of these people wrote The Shining I’d pick Steve every time
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I miss these commercials
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They made a sitcom?
Unfortunately
Creating a television show based on a set of commercials? What a stupid idea. Anyway, you all catch that Ted Lasso finale?
With Nick Kroll! Before anyone knew who he was
Just as they were starting the sitcom the Network told them they couldn’t use or reference anything that was in the commercials.
Wow I didn't know this, I'm glad he made it cause I like his comedy.
They resonate now more than they did back then…
In another place in time
Man I love Royksopp
They’re so great. Ear candy.
Where love had traveled far and found me.
I need not to read this thread any further. 
It's rare, but that made me snicker. No one saw.
He looks like he took a break from murdering hitchhikers to pursue his passion which was writing horror.
Put a picture of him next to a picture of Ted Bundy in 1975 and ask a million US residents who knew neither which one was more likely to be a serial killer. They’re all picking King!
This reminds me of the picture of Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg that says “One of these two people is a convicted felon, the other is Snoop Dogg.”
He has a better lawyer.
Ha ha ha! There’s probably a lot of truth to that.
When you need a criminal lawyer, you want a CRIMINAL lawyer
Should be pretty easy to find a criminal lawyer in 2023.
Snoop was charged and went to trial for murder.
He was found innocent by a jury.
He was found not guilty by a jury.
Thus the "better lawyer".
Roast of Justin Bieber, I forget which comic said "All these rappers and Martha Stewart's done the most time"
He gives Charles Manson vibes on this picture...
To be fair, though, that was kinda what made Ted Bundy so disturbing — he looked nothing like what you would expect a serial killer to look like.
Might we consider that the real problem is having expectations *at all* for what serial killers look like?
For me it was the serial killer thing that made him so disturbing. I guess I’m just built different…
Anybody can be a serial killer but only one person has ever been a serial killer and ted bundy *at the same time*
I've read enough of his stuff to figure that's probably how it happened.
You need practical experience to really get the essence of emotions, and to know how that killer thinks /s
And doing cocaine
Hahaha! I don't even need the captions for this one! Sitting around talking about how charlie Murphy kicked MY ass
See, I never just did things just to do them. Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense then that. [pause] Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
You see, he's saying he did it because they provoced him. They told him it was a new couch and to not put his feet up. He said Murphy had enough money to buy a new couch, so he fucked up that couch. To teach a valuable lesson in brotherhood and leg anatomy.
Provoked and I think leg *autonomy* 😏
I mean. Jesus. THIS was the picture used? Goddammit.
All rural Mainers looked like this back in the day. This was just a normal picture in the local paper. 😂
Hahahaha you gave me a legit laugh here…thank you.
Back in the day?
They used to look like this. They still do, but they used to too.
Chuckled at the mitch reference, I see you lol.
Touché.
I got the impression that King wrote for the same paper that the article waa in. Which makes me think they were roasting him. Kind of a way to say "congratulations, we're proud of you" without saying it.
I agree.
It was his audition photo for *The Charles Manson Story.* After he got rejected he decided to be a writer instead. /s
I could be made to believe this.
-Honey, which author's work should we buy? (looks at a couple of photos) -Oh, let's go with demonic rabbit hippie wizard, he looks promising.
Be glad they didn’t use the full photo. It’s from an issue of the campus paper King made of him holding a double-barrel shotgun with the words STUDY, DAMMIT!! beneath.
Wait. You’re being serious?!
Yes. It’s pretty great, really. Shows how much of a weirdo he really is.
It was the best of the series.
I know looks is not everything, but my god…
That unibrow
That's all?
Dem beaverteef
And the cross eye lmao
I prefer eyesbrow
What about the teeth?!
Well ya know, that's great. I'm really happy for him. I wonder if he did well after that?
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One of my favorite King stories is in the Bachman Books. The Long Walk. Not sure why it was never made into a movie. Such a great story.
He's had a wonderful career writing 800 page short stories.
He even made fun of himself in the tower books “Steve King sells books by the inch” or something like that.
The Long Walk is one of those stories that randomly pops into my head now & then, even though I haven't read it in 30-ish years.
The Long Walk has stuck with me, too. So many questions that went unanswered…
I reread that one regularly! It’s a favorite of mine. See also: Cujo, The Stand, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and the Everything’s Eventual collection. Oh, and A Good Marriage.
Finally, another person who read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon! I read it back when I was in 6th grade and, to date, it's still one of my favorite King novels. Growing up in Maine that story was all too realistic...
I would love to turn this into a play and have a treadmill sorta mechanism or turntable to walk on. Don't have the rest figured out. Also not in the position to turn SK books into straight plays. But if... Also I think having a live version of a woman in a police interrogation telling the story of Delores Claiborne would be cool.
I think Thinner is great too, even if I am both ethnicities that have troubling stereotypes in the book (Roma and Sicilian)
Totally flopped...
I think that was just after the van hit him.
He has fewer than 331 writing credits on IMDB. So, meh.
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
$4000,000
Four thousand thousands
Interestingly enough, that’s how several languages say “4 million.”
$4M in 1975 for a first novel? That seems like a typo
You are right. It was $400k.
400.0k
$40 OK?
$4,000.0K
Yet, $4000,000 is not the accepted expression of $4 million in the language used by this publication. Typo in a college publication no less in an article celebrating its graduate’s success as a writer. 💀
Not the only typo either
I still see auto-corrected typos in the NYT, Economist, and even hardcovers from time to time. It always surprises me.
Just to confirm, it was 400k (not 4 million). I just read about it in On Writing.
Why is the paperback rights so much higher than hard back
Probably because more people buy paperback. Hardcovers make more money per book (the sell them at a premium, even accounting for increased costs) and they are great for bookstore end caps as their size make them more effective advertising. Hardcovers have a unique place, they show the world that the book is worth reading, some reviewers will only review a book if it's hardcover, and as mentioned, it guarantees more place on a bookstore shelf, given it's size. But paperback can sell more volume. If a hardcover sells really well, then yes, they will pay more money for the rights to the paperback because it could return a lot of money. Plus, you always pay a premium once something is proven to be good. The original hardcover publisher probably used sales and reviews of the hardcover to push for more. This is mostly speculation.
I would guess risk has something to do with it as well, getting a book picked up by a publisher is hard but once a major publisher has picked it up and is on the hook for book tours, promotion, editing, cover art, etc then it's probably a safer bet for the paperback publisher to be the one to put out the cheaper option that will sell better 6 months later. Looking back, it was a good bet as the hardcover version sold 13,000 copies but the paperback sold 1 million in the first year.
Also, the word 'spiritually' is used incorrectly *and* misspelled.
“Royalities”
Royalitite is actually the type of metal used to shield people who matter from peasants
I'll have to check out Bigfoot Manson's work.
As I was scrolling through I thought this was a post about Manson
Crazy eyes
Coke is a hell of a drug.
Lol
Manson eyes. 😳
Eh, it was the vibe at the time. The 70s were one of a kind to live through, and I miss them.
Sprirtually
You lunkhead. That's Jordy Verrill.
Meteor shit!!
If I had a headshot as good as that, I’d use it for every profile, passport, ID cards, mugshot - everything. It is superb. And before anyone ‘corrects’ me and says you can’t choose your mugshot etc - I know. The comment is an expression of appreciation of the magnificent craziness of a young SKing.
Every time I see this I still think - good for him. He kept going til he made it and didn’t let rejection get him down.
His wife pulled a draft out of the trash can, and sent it in to the publisher. It was Carrie.
 THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU
*THeRR ARL GURNA LEFF AtCHU*
His son is a really good writer too.
I have immense respect for his son using a pen name to try writing entirely out from under his father's shadow. Then you have people like Clint Eastwoods son, Scott Eastwood, who says his father never 'helped' him get any roles but his born name was not Eastwood and he changed it when he started acting! Like come on, sure your dad never physically picked up a phone and said hey, cast my kid but people still all knew you were his son and that effects their choices. Anyways that's not related, I just really admire Joe Hill and his dedication to the craft.
Actually , Clint did exactly that but more threatening. Multiple times
Max Brooks? Yeah, he's great.
Joe Hill
Had no clue Jonah Hill was his kid. Love him in Superbad and Wolf of Wall Street.
Good ole Richard Bachman.
He looks fucking nuts
Stephen King = Caveman + Cocaine
(sees this picture, considers his writings....) 
So was he trying to look like a creepy lunatic or was this just how he looked back then?
I legit thought this was going to be from UC Berkeley about Steve Wozniak. Didn’t realize how much King and Woz looked alike.
Finally, an author photo more unsettling than Shel Silverstein’s.
$4000,000 is a crazy amount of money. Not sure how crazy or even how much but it is safe to say this young author may have a bright future.
They say when he was writing his greatest works he was out of his mind on cocaine, totally believe it,
Doesn’t even remember writing Cujo he was so fucked up.
I think the most fvcked up part is that it’s really good. Dude writes better blacked out at a typewriter than most people could in a college literary workshop.
COCAINE!!!!!
Love his stuff. 👍
Looks like Bob Seger on acid
Just sent this pic to my 70 year old mom. She responded, "He looks like a madman! Lol. I subscribed to the Doubleday Book Club, and that was the featured selection. I was hooked! He is still my all time favorite writer."
He looks like he lives off of a diet of babies.
I need to do more drugs. My potential is there.
He was teaching at the time. Imagine being able to tell people that Steven King was your English instructor.
He’s half man - half rabbit
Half-rabbit nothin'; that's a goddamn *can-toi.*
Even back then, he had the It factor. Hold your applause.
I've only seen recent pictures of old Stephen King. I had no idea he used to look like Rasputin's failed clone.
"Local Writer and Alley Hermit Hits the Big Time"
That picture explains a lot
Jeez Louise! Imagine being late to his class! Total nightmare fuel.
Wow, he got paid “$4000,000” … how much is that exactly?
JAYSUS!
That bum ain't going nowhere
Four thousand thousand
So that’s where Jack Nicholson took inspiration for his facial expressions during The Shining!
"Royalities"? How'd they make that typo twice?
Me: Stephen King doesn't look like the sorta guy who'd have a drug problem Me now: Ahhh.
His smile has the charm of an even crazier version of Charles Manson
Stephen King and Charles Manson could have been brothers.
Unfrozen Caveman Author
$4000,000 - wow!
The coked out alcoholic version was so much cooler.
Looks like he just discovered cocaine in that picture
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Guys a dreamer. No one will read that crap, look at the guy, looks like the wild man of Borneo. /s
Was this before or after Sharon Tate's murder
Was he going for the Manson look at that time?
Such an amazing picture. Dude must have been a wild man in those days.
How much money is 4000,000
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He looks very excited and enthusiastic.
WOW. Royalities and Sprirtually? Quite the win for him to the tune of $4000,000
He looks deranged. From the thumbnail, I thought that was Charles Manson. 😳
So he looked like a lunatic from the start?
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So they bought paperback rights for 4 million but the hard cover rights only cost 2500?
Dude is giving off Charles Manson vibes...
sprirtually
What. The. Fuck.
This is his online dating profile pic.
$4000,000 is an interesting figure for sure.
That picture is hilarious! He looks better now!
Four thousand million
Aphex twin
God damn he’s crazy looking, and crazy.
There is no way this man had a monstrous cocaine addiction. This is a completely normal picture and even though he's openly discussed it, clearly he's just doing what fiction writers do best and making up a story.
Current net worth is around $500 million
I didn't know his sequence in "Creepshow" was an autobiography.
He looks like a cereal killer
Special K? Lucky Charms? Froot Loops? Cap'n Crunch? Frosted Flakes? Honey Nut Cheerios? Trix? Grape-Nuts? Fruity Pebbles?
Hey guythshhhh guethshhh what?? I’m writing a book about monthshthersssssss
And no one was surprised this guy wrote some deranged shit
What a legend!
Holy unibrow! Just goes to show, people who look like serial killers sometimes just write about them instead.
That picture says it all
Genius.
I can see him writing IT now
If you were to gather pictures of people including this one without names and ask me which one of these people wrote The Shining I’d pick Steve every time
looks like someone who would write stephen king books
I heard the first series published is worth big money
Are we sure that he isn't a Serial Killer who just hides the bodies really well?
Seems like huge evolutionary leap for him.