Stephen King's Possible Novel

[Patrick]

I often read some of his thoughts about differences in people with disabilities like deafness, developementally delayed, wheel chairs, and so forth via his more nobler characters. I also noticed that his mother used to work at a center for disabilities as a janitor and often I would read some of his noble thoughts/emotional responses in The Plant,his distain for people who believe in eugenic and also admiration for some of the characters who are challenged with disabilties. I also remembered a section in Danse Macrebe which he described horror beach movies as an illyic town that an eugenic squad had gone through, exterminating the teenagers with weight problems, cleft lips, pimples, unaccepted in cool crowds...I often am surprised that he never attempted writing a dystopia novel about the extermination of the deaf, developmentally delayed, and disabled, because I feel that his version of the world would be the wet your pants kind of scary to me.

Had he tried writing a novel like that in his lifetime? I have to admit that his thoughts and some passages and essays really reinforce my idea for my own work. I think maybe he was not sure about the often secret worlds of those that society doesn't normally speak of.

[Liriope]

I think the point of dystopia is kinda that that's what happens when people come up with crazy ideas for bettering the world.

King always came across to me as more interested in what makes people afraid than in what makes people terrifying.

[Bondama]

Patrick, I agree with you completely -- it seems to me that SK could handle that topic in such a way that we'd be seeing a whole new view of it. -- Although, it could be that he hasn't written a novel of this sort because after Phillip K. Dick's novella (sorry...having an elder moment... can't remember the name) - Anyway, what I was trying to say was that it was done very, very well by other authors (although that's never stopped himself before!!!

[Patrick]

Yes. It seems that I kept seeing his possible novel on that in my head so often that I even went ahead and wrote something like that even if I know it would not be as scary as Stephen King would have done it.

Now I am inspired by Let the Right One In to do like something like a superhero horror novel to change my entire concept of the dystopia novel epic in my head.
I hope someday Stephen King would read it and love it even if the idea is not original.

[Patrick]

Lee wrote: "I think the point of dystopia is kinda that that's what happens when people come up with crazy ideas for bettering the world.

King always came across to me as more interested in what makes people..."

I would have thought that before but after reading some works like Salemn Lot and The Mist, it seemed that the people, especially those who bow down to evil or do nothing or serve it are more scarier than the monsters themselves, or revel in destructions, especially those who slay monsters and become monsters themselves. They are the devils you don't know!

[Bonita]

Yeah, they are the real monsters - the religious fanatics are just one example.