20 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About Stephen King

He suffers from a triskydecaffesopia – fear of the number 13.

"The number 13 does not fail to slide the ice finger up and down my spine. When I write, I never stop working if the page is 13th or multiples of 13. I continue to write until I get to the "safe" number. I always take the last two steps from my stairwell at once to turn 13 into 12. In the end, the soles of the English gallows were 13 somewhere until 1900. When I read, I will not stop on page 94, 193 or 382, because the sum of them also makes 13. "

A collection of stories

by H. Lovecraft, called The Lurker Of the Threshold is often mentioned by Stephen King as the catalyst who made it a writer. It was a book his father found in the attic. On the cover of the book is a demon painted.

He once said in a BBC interview that Jack Torrance (Radiance) is his most autographic character.

By the time he wrote the book, he also drank as much as Jack. At first, he saw Jack as a "heroic character who fights his demons the way the mighty American men have to do it."

An article in the Fun edition The Onion claims that King does not remember ever to have written the tomicucoll.

After which the writer admits that this is actually true because he cannot remember how he wrote many novels from the 80 because of his then alcoholism, including Kujo.

In his home in Maine Stephen King and his wife Tabitha possess three radios.

When it becomes clear that the author Richard Bachmann is actually Stephen King, he stops using the pseudonym, saying that Bachmann is dead. The cause of death declared by him is "cancer of the pseudonym".

He tells his colleague Neil Gaiman that if he has a chance to live his life again, he would not change anything. Except to appear in an American Express advertisement.

According to the Guinness Records, the books of King were filmed more than any other author.

 He was declared unfit for military service in Vietnam because of high blood, low vision, flat feet, and pierced eardrum.

A big fan of Ramones, he writes the notes to the Tribûtniâ album We're A Happy Family.

King was always interested in the acting game and appeared in not one of his films. As a man of ATM in killer machines, a minister at a pet cemetery, a cemetery guard in the Somnambulls, Teddy Wyzak in Clash, Tom Holby in Langolierite, Dr. Bengore in The curse, Gage Creed in the television version of Radiance and a pizza delivery guy in the red rose.

Initially, he discarded the first variant of Kerry, written with the idea of a narrative, but his wife Tabitha sees the potential in history and insists on continuing it. Finally, he dedicates to her the book.

The original title of the Williams Lott was Second Coming, but again, King Tabitha's wife intervened, noting that it sounded like a "bad sex story" and eventually he changed it.

Anger, his first novel as Richard Bachmann, tells of a high school student with a disturbed psyche who holds his classmates at gunpoint. After it was found that Jeffrey Lan Cox, a high school with a disturbed psyche took his classmates as hostages, had read and was inspired by the book, and after three more similar cases, King allowed the book to be stopped by printing in the United States.

King was accused of vandalism because he did not recognize him when he began to sign books during an unexpected visit to an Australian bookstore.

So loved the movie 28 Days later, that he bought a whole projection, 275 tickets. Ironically, the film director may currently be making a remake of the pet cemetery.

Allegedly, he was present at a screening of Labyrinth of the Fath and sat next to director Guillermo del Toro. During the scandalous scene with pale man, the king slightly jumped into his chair, which del Toro described as "the best experience ever."

Ronald MacDonald is one of the influences for the creepy clown Pennywise.

After an almost deadly incident that occurred in 1999, the sisters who cared for King in his home received a special order under no circumstances to joke on the subject of misery...

A musical on "Kerry"? Yes, in 1988, something like this happened. First at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford at Avon, UK and then on Broadway later in the year. Although the tickets are always were booked, the reactions are mixed – and the performance soon stops playing. He returned to 2012 as a non-Broadway production.