Playboy Interview: Stephen King

Playboy Interview: Stephen Kinga candid conversation with the author of "carrie" and "the shining" about ghosts, vampires, big bucks and other gruesome tales of horrorIn the early winter of 1972, a Maine housewife dusting her husband's makeshift study fished a discarded manuscript out of the wastebasket and sat down to read it. When Stephen King returned from teaching high school English that evening, his wife, Tabitha, persuaded him to resume work on the abandoned novel, des...