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| - In a shocking confession, best-selling horror maestro Stephen King has admitted to having shared "home, hearth, and bed" with another writer, Richard Bachman, for several years during his marriage to wife Tabitha. Having nearly died following his having been struck by Bryan Smith, who, although driving, was involved with his dog, Smooches, and claims not to have seen King, who was walking alongside Route 5 while reading a novel, King decided to "come clean" about his relationship with Bachman.
- The pseudonym was created by King for two main reasons: because the general view of publishers at the time was writers should be limited to a book a year and he wanted to see if he could re-build his fame once again. It was later found out that King was in fact Bachman by the similiarities in writing style as well as an eager fan scrolling through American Writer's records- which led him to finding Bachman's address as being King's.
- He was quite nearly named Gus Pillsbury after King's mother's father, but was ultimately named after Donald Westlake's pseudonym "Richard Stark" and the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Having published five novels, Bachman "died" in 1985 of "cancer of the pseudonym" after he was discovered, and his death served as the inspiraton for King's 1989 novel The Dark Half. Two further "trunk novels," written by Bachman, were "discovered" by Claudia in the attic of their New Hamsphire home and subsequently published; the first of them, The Regulators, was released in conjunction with Desperation, as the two books presented different versions of the same story and cast of characters.
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| - The pseudonym was created by King for two main reasons: because the general view of publishers at the time was writers should be limited to a book a year and he wanted to see if he could re-build his fame once again. It was later found out that King was in fact Bachman by the similiarities in writing style as well as an eager fan scrolling through American Writer's records- which led him to finding Bachman's address as being King's. Even though he was exposed, King still writes novels as Richard Bachman and Stephen King's novel, The Dark Half, was based on the main character's struggle with his pseudonym, which eventually materializes into a real person.
- He was quite nearly named Gus Pillsbury after King's mother's father, but was ultimately named after Donald Westlake's pseudonym "Richard Stark" and the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Having published five novels, Bachman "died" in 1985 of "cancer of the pseudonym" after he was discovered, and his death served as the inspiraton for King's 1989 novel The Dark Half. Two further "trunk novels," written by Bachman, were "discovered" by Claudia in the attic of their New Hamsphire home and subsequently published; the first of them, The Regulators, was released in conjunction with Desperation, as the two books presented different versions of the same story and cast of characters. The second "trunk novel" was, in fact, a reworked manuscript that had been turned down by Doubleday in order to publish `Salem's Lot.
- In a shocking confession, best-selling horror maestro Stephen King has admitted to having shared "home, hearth, and bed" with another writer, Richard Bachman, for several years during his marriage to wife Tabitha. Having nearly died following his having been struck by Bryan Smith, who, although driving, was involved with his dog, Smooches, and claims not to have seen King, who was walking alongside Route 5 while reading a novel, King decided to "come clean" about his relationship with Bachman.
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