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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Literary scholar Caroline Bicks spends a year immersed in Stephen King's archive, using manuscripts, notes, correspondence, and revisions to examine how a writer builds fear. Her research becomes a personal journey through memory, family, creativity, and the monsters that accompany readers beyond the page. Blending criticism, memoir, and archival discovery, Bicks traces the labor behind familiar stories while reflecting on why horror can feel consoling as well as terrifying. The book is an affectionate encounter with King's creative process and an inquiry into what our fears reveal about us.

Publisher: Hogarth
Publication date: 2026-04-21
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780593736722

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Literary Criticism / American Biography & Memoir Popular Culture / Horror

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