Stephen Edwin King, a.k.a. “The King of Terror”, is one of today’s most popular and best-selling writers and is an immensely popular, horror-fiction author. King’s great success as an author is not without cause however. Many elements in King’s writing style and method differentiate him from the crowd and crowns him “The King of Terror”. Stephen, his brother, and mother moved quite frequently when he was a child. When he …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.S. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. His family and upbringing have a great deal to do with the way King writes. Such influences affect how King writes, and, therefore, are some of the best reasons for his outstanding success. They also are the roots of his unique writing style, which ultimately crowns him “The King of Terror”.