Samuel March has been a wire service copy editor, magazine writer and foreign correspondent for a radio network. He sat in his bath one evening and heard Stephen King interviewed o...view moreSamuel March has been a wire service copy editor, magazine writer and foreign correspondent for a radio network. He sat in his bath one evening and heard Stephen King interviewed on the radio. King was asked where he got his ideas for the horrors in his books. King said he tried to think of something that aroused such deep-rooted anxiety that people did not dare to think about it consciously. March got out of the bath and started writing this book.view less