Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966.
King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, these five stories announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time. "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy painting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide.
When Room 322 leaves her a quarter for a tip, Darlene lets that quarter take her for a ride. In "Luckey Quarter" Darlene is a single mom struggling to raise two kids on her income as a chambermaid in Reno. In "The Little Sisters of Eluria" Roland is a gunslinger in a deserted town when he gets ambushed. He wakes up as he is being rolled into an autopsy room.
In "Autopsy Room Four," the last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is entering the woods to find his golf ball. "Everything's Eventual" features Dinky Earnshaw - a 19-year-old pizza boy - who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally "eventual" (awesome) job.
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