Introduction
As someone now in her mid-40s, I have referred to Stephen King as the constant man in my life for a number of years now. I first learned of him when I was around 12 years old, and when sleeping over my cousin’s house we watched the movie Stand By Me . As the credits rolled, and I saw it was based on the novella The Body by Stephen King, I thought, I’ve got to track this book down. I can’t remember exactly whether Different Seasons , the collection which included The Body , was the very first or just one of the first King books I read. Memory is funny like that, and especially mine when it comes to books. I know I very quickly read a bunch of King books all in a row, but some of them I have absolutely no memory of, I just know I read them. I figured, as it’s been over 30 years since I read some of these books, and I have a shocking memory anyway, it was worth re-reading the King books I had, getting any books I was missing, and doing a full chronological read of all of his books. T...