Stephen King wrote some of the most famous horror novels of the 20th century and has no memory of writing one of them.
Cujo came out in 1981. King was drinking a case of sixteen-ounce tallboys a night and using cocaine to keep going. He has said plainly that he barely remembers writing the book at all. It exists, sold millions, became a film, and the man whose name is on the cover was somewhere else the whole time.
He kept producing through all of it. Christine, Pet Sematary, IT, The Tommyknockers, all written in the same stretch. The output never dropped. That was the frightening part. The work stayed good while the man behind it came apart.
His wife ended it. Tabitha emptied his trash can onto the rug in front of him: beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Valium, Xanax, NyQuil, Robitussin, mouthwash. Everything he had been hiding, in one pile. Then she told him to choose.
Here is the part nobody talks about. Right as he was getting clean, King wrote Misery. A famous writer wakes up held captive by a woman who calls herself his number one fan. She drugs him, isolates him, and will not let him stop producing pages for her.
King later said Annie Wilkes was cocaine. The number one fan who fed him, trapped him, and never wanted to leave. His mind had been screaming for help through his own monsters for years, and he only saw it after he put her on the page.
He got sober in the late 1980s and never went back. The writer made it out. He just had to turn the drug into a character first, then write the scene where she loses.
Tunç Okan’ın yönettiği 1974 yapımı “Otobüs” filminde, 9 Türk işçisinin hurda bir otobüsle Stockholm meydanına terk edilişi ve sonrasında yaşananlar anlatılıyor. Filmin en çarpıcı sahnelerinden biri işçilerin yürüyen merdivenle ilk tanışma anı... 🎥
Tunç Okan’ın yönettiği 1974 yapımı “Otobüs” filminde, 9 Türk işçisinin hurda bir otobüsle Stockholm meydanına terk edilişi ve sonrasında yaşananlar anlatılıyor. Filmin en çarpıcı sahnelerinden biri işçilerin yürüyen merdivenle ilk tanışma anı... 🎥