Stephen King’s archives reveal surprising skeletons in the closet
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By Eric Spitznagel
Published on April 19, 2026.
Caroline Bicks, the author of "Monsters in the Archives" at the University of Maine, has written a new book about Stephen King's meticulous crafting of fear and inspirations. The book was inspired by King's experiences in "Pet Sematary" and "The Shining". Bicks spent a year inside their personal archive, a climate-controlled space at their Victorian mansion in Bangor containing manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs of nearly all King's ever written. King nearly lost his own toddler son Owen to a speeding truck, an incident so traumatic that King wrote it almost verbatim into the novel. Bicks has been afraid of King's books since reading them as a teenager and hopes to understand his methods in creating fear.
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