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Abstract

In the more than four decades since King published his first novel, Carrie, King has remained incredibly prolific, publishing more than fifty novels and short story collections, while also stretching beyond the boundaries of traditional publishing into serial publishing, ebooks, and graphic novels, as well as non-fiction, including his critical consideration of the horror genre, Danse Macabre, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), and the ebook exclusive Guns in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. He has even expanded into the musical realm, co-writing Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All (2013) along with his Rock Bottom Remainders bandmates, and working with John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett as the playwright for the musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012). In recent years, King has also been active publishing in smaller venues, from literary publications such as Tin House, which published the short story “Afterlife” in 2013, to more mass market magazines like Esquire, which first published King and Hill’s “In the Tall Grass,” as well as King’s stories “Morality” in 2009 and “That Bus Is Another World” in 2014. While these stories—and other previously small-market published work—were eventually included in King’s 2015 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, in a time when many print publications struggle to remain relevant in an increasingly online, e-format world, King’s work breathes a bit of life into the publication of literary magazines, reeling in the die-hard King fans hungry for his latest story. King continues to push the boundaries of publication, bringing his work to his Constant Readers in myriad ways, from traditional print and magazines to ebook and audiobook exclusives.