Stephen King’s Carrie turns 50
Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it’s still challenging and guiding the genre. @TalkScaredPod writes: https://t.co/zG4tUL9LKI
- Esquire (@esquire) April 5, 2024
Stephen King’s first novel was published 50 years ago today.
King initially struggled with writing it and threw the pages in the trash but his wife Tabitha dug them out and encouraged him to keep going.
Margaret Atwood writes “Carrie is a study of what it’s like to be hardscrabble poor and brutally marginalized in America. It’s territory King has returned to again and again. He knows it inside out. He grew up in it.”