Today, September 21, the world-famous writer Stephen King turns 70. And, probably, this is the case when you can neglect the rules and not list the names of his novels. "King of Horrors" knows how to awaken in the reader a feeling of deep fear. But is there anything that horrifies him?.
Arachnophobia of the work of Stephen King inhabits a lot of frightening creatures, some of the most famous: St. Bernard Kujo from the novel of the same name or mutant rats from the story "The Night Shift". But there is only one zoophobia, about which the writer does not have the courage to write: "I want to write about spiders, because they are afraid of almost everything. Personally, I can not imagine anything more terrible, more disgusting than spiders ".
Aviaphobia With his fear of flying, Stephen King once shared a talk show with the famous TV presenter Dennis Miller. Here is how it describes it in his biography, Lisa Rougek: "They discussed the fear of flying, and King shared his theory, suggesting that the collective fear of passengers on board helps prevent a plane crash. That's right, "Miller nodded. - Tension in the bodies of passengers prevents the aircraft from falling. Not really, "Steve hastened to explain.. It's a matter of extrasensory perception, and anyone who has at least a couple of convolutions will understand that this will not work. Take three or four people scared to death - and the plane will be saved. Fear is worth the flights, where there is not one afraid to fly a passenger. Here they are, and there are air accidents. Can you believe me? ".
Aylurophobia Among King's phobias there are also black cats, however trivial it was. Once King said that he could just change his mind about going somewhere if he saw on the way a black cat.
Kingphobia Stephen King made his personal nightmare - the fear of clowns - a massive phobia. It is with the release of his novel "It" that many psychologists associate the isolation of this fear in a separate kind of phobia. "Master of Fear" showed that the mask of the clown hides not a smiling good-natured but a frightening stranger. "As a child, I saw how other children also cry at the sight of clowns. In my opinion, in this character there is something eerie, something ominous - under the guise of joy and fun, evil can hide, "King once said.
No-phobia Darkness always portends something bad, and for King it is at all evil. This is sometimes even joked by his friends. The writer himself never falls asleep without a night light, and at a party or in a cinema at full darkness he will surely get the phone and highlights what is happening on the screen.
"In a way, I'm afraid of everything, without exception," summed up Stephen King. And the truth is, how then would he be able to convey this feeling so naturally if he had not experienced it himself?.