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“I feel like I’ve done my job”
- MOORE
If Stephen King is known as the master of horror fiction, then Lisey’s Story is perhaps his most deeply personal novel – inspired by a brush with death 21 years ago when he was hospitalised with double pneumonia, only to return home to find his wife Tabitha had cleaned out his study with plans to redecorate.
“It was totally empty. All the books and magazines were gone, the mementos, the plaques, the photographs on the wall, everything was gone. It was totally empty,” recalls King. “I was still pretty sick and really only halfway in my right mind from a fever, and I thought to myself, ‘I’ve died. I’m a ghost.’ For a minute, I thought that I was haunting my old study, and this is what it looks like.”
Wondering how his wife might act without him, King was prompted to write his award-winning 2006 novel Lisey’s Story, which, while containing all the supernatural elements expected of his work, offers an insightful look at the intricacies of a long marriage.
Renowned for his hands-off approach to many film adaptations of his work
