The Science of Stephen King

Chapter Ten: It

1. Kozlowski, David. (August 31, 2017) “Stephen King Talks About The Horror of Pennywise and IT.” LRM Online.

2. Wilding, Mark. (December 29, 2019) “Having a Laugh: Is this the end for Clowning?” The Guardian.

3. (2020) “Commedia dell’Arte Characters.” Italy Mask.co.

4. Meiri, Noam et al. (February 1, 2017) “Fear of clowns in hospitalized children: prospective experience.” European Journal of Pediatrics.

5. Freud, S. (1955) The Uncanny in Art and Literature (2nd Edition). London: Penguin Books.

6. Hermann Ph.D., Henry R. (2017) “Alternate Human Behavior in Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals.” Science Direct.com.

7. Reyes, Mike. (September 8, 2017) “Master of horror Stephen King revealed his personal feelings on clowns.” CinemaBlend.

Chapter Eleven: The Drawing of the Three

1. Browning, Robert. (1895) “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.” A Victorian Anthology. Cambridge: Riverside Press.

2. Armenti, Peter. (August 18, 2017) “How Did Stephen King to the Dark Tower Come? Through Robert Browning’s ‘Childe Roland.’” Library of Congress.gov.

3. (2020) “Dissociative Disorders.” National Alliance on Mental Health.

4. (July 2018) “Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction.” National Institute on Drug Abuse.

5. Thoma, Scot. (February 3, 2020) “Alcohol and Drug Abuse Statistics.” American Addiction Centers.org.

6. (2018) “Heroin.” The National Institute on Drug Abuse.

7. Brooks, Megan. (June 17, 2015) “Drug Overdose Now Leading Cause of Injury-Related Deaths.” Medscape.

8. Guth, Alan. (March 18, 2014) “Alan Guth Explains Inflation Theory.” World Science Festival.

9. Vyas, Kashyap. (August 27, 2018) “String Theory Explained: A Brief Overview for Starters.” Interesting Engineering.

10. King, Stephen. (1982) The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. Grant: Hampton Falls.

Chapter Twelve: Misery

1. Wiel van der, Mark. (1350) “A Broken Leg in the Year 1350: Treatment and Prognosis.”

2. Vic. (October 8, 2010) “Setting a Broken Bone: 19th century medical treatment was not for sissies.” Jane Austen’s World.

3. Gallimore, Joe. (August 4, 2017) “How Stephen King’s ‘Misery’ Predicted Modern Fandom.” Bloody Disgusting.

4. Guarniero, Bevilacqua. (June 2017) “The schizophrenia stigma and mass media: a search for news published by wide circulation media in Brazil.” International Review of Psychiatry.

5. Chan, Sherry Kit. (January 2019) “The effect of media reporting of a homicide committed by a patient with schizophrenia on the public stigma and knowledge of psychosis among the general population of Hong Kong.” Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology.

6. Chan, Sherry Kit. (January 2019) “The effect of media reporting of a homicide committed by a patient with schizophrenia on the public stigma and knowledge of psychosis among the general population of Hong Kong.” Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Chapter Thirteen: The Tommyknockers

1. Greene, Andy. (October 31, 2014) “Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview.” Rolling Stone.

2. Moore, Kate. (February 1, 2019) The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks: Chicago.

3. Wallace-Wells, David. Et al. (March 20, 2018) “13 Reasons to Believe Aliens are Real.” NY Mag.com.

4. (April 2020) “UFO Story.” Roswell-NM.gov.

5. (November 9, 2009) “Roswell.” History.com.

Chapter Fourteen: The Dark Half

1. Smythe, James. (October 21, 2013) “Re-reading Stephen King.” The Guardian.

2. Brown, Steve. (2019) “Bachman Exposed.” Lilja’s Library.

3. Bogdan, Robert. (1990) Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. University of Chicago Press.

4. Strickland, Ashley. (March 21, 2017) “Risky Surgery Separates 10-month-old From Parasitic Twin.” CNN.

5. Galistan, Diane. (September 2, 2019) “Teenager endured her parasitic twin for five years before mass of flesh and bones was discovered.” International Business Times.

Chapter Fifteen: Needful Things

1. (2020) “Soul.” Merriam Webster.

2. Morse, Donald R. (July 1, 2005) “Can Science Prove the Soul, the Afterlife and God?” Journal of Religion & Psychical Research.