How come Steven King has allways been so sucessful at horror films and books?
King has a way to reach into human familiarity, such as by mentioning real baseball teams, famous cigarette brands or the hardships we all go through as normal citizens of Western civilization, such as breakups, getting old, or general anxieties. We feel attached because he mentions all the little things that are so important to most. He reaches into people, and I’m so fascinated by the things he talks about that I have never even been through. In this way, it makes the fiction and horror a lot more plausible and frightening then most other horror writers who set up a scenario and the adequate elements it needs to define itself as such, like people destined to save the world. Of course you know from page 49 that the book has a good ending. Don’t know that with King though, ever. Stephen King just has normal characters in his books, and I swear everyone in ”It” is somebody I know, or knew, in my life. If he’s able to reflect life, even with a cautious step for what is generally accept
