Stephen King The Attic

Soon it s revealed how their father hal discovered the toy monkey inside an antique chest owned by his father hal s father was a merchant mariner who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Stephen king the attic.

Or valley of the dolls flowers in the attic and the bridges of madison county to name just a few is worth a semester at a good writing school. When he read his father s copy of the lurker in the shadows he claimed to have found home. The craft of. They chose the latter to be his second novel and blaze became a trunk novel king rewrote the manuscript editing out much of what he perceived as over sentimentality in the original text.

In writing the teleplay king incorporated a variety of influences including elements of jackson s novel as well as the winchester mystery house in san jose california. In fact it was written before carrie and king offered the original draft of the novel to his doubleday publishers at the same time as salem s lot. Originally conceived as a feature film writer stephen king pitched the idea for rose red to steven spielberg in 1996 envisioning it as a loose remake of robert wise s 1963 film the haunting. He called stephen up to the attic where stephen discovered a box filled with horror novels.

Stephen king found inspiration to be a writer through h p. In 1999 a feature film remake of the haunting was released after which king s script was revised and expanded into a miniseries. Lovcraft s collection of short stories that he found while going through old storage with his brother in the attic. Lovecraft and it sparked his interest in becoming a horror writer.

The very first book king picked up from the box was the thing from the tomb by h p. He unknowingly modelled the plot after his childhood experiences against it. King announced on his website that he found it in an attic. I think there s also been a remake of the movie adaptation of flowers in the attic so i may check that out too.

Hal suspects that the monkey led to his father s disappearance. The story begins with two young brothers peter and dennis finding a cymbal banging monkey toy in the attic of their great uncle s house.