Rage is quite possibly one of the most controversial works that Stephen King has written to date, though it didn’t start out that way. The story surrounds Charlie Decker, a senior in high school, who one day decides to bring a gun to school and shoot a teacher, Mrs. Underwood. However, in the course of … Read More …
In 1996, Stephen King published two novels simultaneously. Desperation and The Regulators, the latter being published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. Having seemingly put his alter ego to rest with the novel, The Dark Half, King resurrected Bachman in order to publish two novels that would coincide with each other. The story begins in what … Read More …
Roadwork is yet another novel penned by Stephen King under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. There is something more dark and sinister within the Bachman books than with King’s more popular works. Whether this is a trick of the mind convincing the reader that there is another personality penning the works of Bachman within Stephen … Read More …
The Long Walk, like The Running Man and The Regulators, is a novel that was penned under Stephen King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman. There’s something a bit more sadistic about King’s Bachman books, which may very well be why he began writing them under a penname. The Long Walk, however, might just be the most disturbing … Read More …
Within the books written by Richard Bachman, Stephen King’s not-so-secret pen name, there is almost always an air of desperation. The Running Man is certainly no exception. One of King’s shorter novels, The Running Man is set within a dystopian future in which the poor are seen more by the government as worrisome rodents than … Read More …
Thinner is yet another novel that King penned under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. Unlike the other Bachman tales such as Roadwork or The Long Walk, this tale is not one of desperation, but one of guilt and regret. It does, however, take us to the edge of desperation within the last chapters of the … Read More …