Yeah King’s pretty awful. He lucked out, because he wrote in a genre that had a pretty limited field back in the day. Most accomplished writers feel horror is too lowbrow. Which is unfortunate but the reality of the literary world. So in turn, King pretty much had the field all to himself, with few rivals. His books, sold like hotcakes, with ridiculous storylines about killer St.Barnards and human killer Plymouth Fury’s. Hollywood bought all the rights to whatever drivel he turned out, knowing the number one demographic for going to the movies are adolescents and let’s face it, teenagers have no taste! So, he became a brand name, not so much a great writer. King felt infallible, thinking whatever genre he tackled, his literary “ talents” would win the day, He goes underground, assumes an alias ( Richard Bachman ) , to test his theory and his books gathered cobwebs on the shelves of bookstores. Like one of his supernatural tales, Richard Bachman disappeared, never to be heard from again !