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Facts about Stephen King's Horror Legacy
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In 1987, King published Misery, a novel whose obsessive-fan villain Annie Wilkes has become one of horror fiction's most iconic antagonists.
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Many horror conventions and tropes popularized by King, such as small-town settings concealing supernatural evil, have become defining features of the genre.
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The novella The Body, published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons, was adapted into the acclaimed coming-of-age film Stand by Me.
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King's 1974 debut novel Carrie, rejected dozens of times before publication, is widely credited with launching the modern horror fiction boom of the late twentieth century.
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Stephen King's novels have been adapted into films and television series more frequently than those of almost any other living author.