The Science of Stephen King

parallel universes, 78–79

Dreamcatcher (King), 139–146

byrum, 144–145

dreams, shared, 143

film, 139

fungus, 144

inspiration, 139

macro viruses, 145

quarantine, 146

telepathy, 144

written longhand, 139, 146

dreams, 11

lucid, 194

role of, 143

shared, 142

Ducey, Doug, 151

Duddits, 143

Dugway Proving Ground, 33, 33

Dugway sheep incident, 32–33

Duma Key (King), 166–172

Alzheimer’s disease, 170

brain injury, 168

inspiration, 166

painting, 169

phantom limb, 167

plot, 167–168, 171–172, 178

weather and healing, 168

E

East Carter High School, 28–29

Eastlake, Elizabeth, 170

Ebola, 145

eczema, 65

Edgecomb, Paul, 118, 123

Education Digest, 28

Einstein, Albert, 182

El Cuco, 210

electric chair, 122–123

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 202

Ellis, Luke, 212

empath, 215

End of Watch (King), 197, 199, 201

Energy Star products, 177

enuresis, 26

Environmental Research Letters, 177

Epping, Jake, 182, 189

ESP, 214–215

Esposito, Elaine, 111

Estes Park, Colorado, 11

European Journal of Pediatrics, 70

evidence

DNA, 206

eyewitness, 206

exhumation, 23–24

The Exorcist, 201

The Expanse, 200

extraterrestrial materials, 88–89

Eye of the Dragon (King), 41

The Eyes of the Dragon (King), 85

F

Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 203

fairy tales, 59–60

fans, obsessive, 83

Faulkner, William, 18

fear, 43

“Fear and Loathing in Beverly Hill” (You), 140

fecal transplantation, 42

Federal Trade Commission, 120

Ferdinand, Franz, 185

Ferguson, Christopher, 29–30

fetus in fetu, 98

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 184

fiction

American Gothic, 18

rural gothic, 18–19

Southern American Gothic, 18

fingerprints, 207

Firestarter (King), 203, 217

firing squads, 122

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 84

Fitzgerald, Zelda, 84

Flint City, Oklahoma, 205

Florence, Kelly, 11

Florida, 166

flu, 36

foaming at the mouth, 1567

folie-a-deux. See Delusion, shared Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampire (Bell), 21

Forwald, Haakon, 3

fountain of youth, 191

Fountain of Youth Agricultural Park, 192

fragmentation reproduction, 42

Frankenstein (Shelley), 199, 199

Freeman, Brian, 134

Freneau, Philip, 57

Freud, Sigmund, 71

friend, meeting because of Stephen King, 164–165

friendship, child, 67

From a Buick 8 (King), 147–153

plot, 148

fungi, 41–42, 144

G

Gacy, John Wayne, 70

Gage, Phineas, 168

Gaia.com, 193

Galistan, Diane, 98

Gamble, Sera, 140

Gardner, Randy, 110

Garfield, James A., 181

gastrointestinal disease, 65

Gaunt, Leland, 80, 104, 109

Gellar, Uri, 214–215

Gerald’s Game (King), 80

Getting It On (Bachman/King), 25

“Ghosts,” 129

Gibney, Holly, 196, 208–210

Gibson, William, 201

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

(King), 124–128

inspiration, 124

plot, 124, 127

pneumonia, 127

global warming, 174–177

God of the Lost, 124

Goldberg, Joe, 149

Goldberg, Phyllis, 213

Goldman, Rachel, 56–57

Goldman, Zelda, 56–57

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 73

Gordon, Tom, 124

Gothic fiction, 18

government, 211

Governor’s Highway Safety Association, 63

Grady, Delbert, 142

grave robbers, 22

gravitational field manipulation, 3

gravity, 78

Gray, Mr., 145

“Gray Matter” (King), 38–39

“The Great New England Vampire Panic” (Smithsonian), 20–21

Greene, Andy, 86

greenhouse gases, 176

The Green Mile (King), 50, 118–123, 126

healer, 119

mouse, 119

plot, 118–119

Grenadine, Richie, 38–39, 41–42

grief, 159–162, 172

anticipatory, 172

Grim Reaper, 99–100, 116–117

Grisham, John, 118

Griswold, Connecticut, 20–21

groupthink, 20

Guardian, 92, 211

Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, 121

guillotine, 121, 121

Guinness World Records, 111

gun

control, 28

residue, 188

Guns (King), 29

The Gunslinger (King), 203

Guth, Alan, 78–79

Gwendy’s Button Box (King and Chizmar), 129–136

creation of, 133

plot, 130–131, 136

Gwendy’s Magic Feather (Chizmar), 133

gypsy, 62

pie, 66

H

Hafdahl, Luke, 39–40

Hafdahl, Meg, 11

Halleck, Billy, 61–62, 64, 66

hallucination

auditory, 92, 94, 162

visual, 162

hands, clawlike, 66

hanging, 121

Hantavirus, 145

Hargenson, Chris, 8

Harris, Ed, 29

Hartsfield, Brady, 196–197, 201

Haut, Walter, 90

Haven, Maine, 87

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 18

healers, 119–120

healing hole, 191

health, 62

Heath High School, 29

Hedberg, Elaine, 151

Hedberg, James, 182

Helgenberger, Marg, 86

Henn, Rainer, 62

Hensel, Abby, 96

Hensel, Brittany, 96

heroin, 75, 77

detoxing, 78

effect on the body, 78

Hezekiah’s Gate, 107–108

Hidden Bodies (Kepnes), 140

Hippocrates, 5, 167

“Historical Examination of United States Intentional Mass School Shootings in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Implications for Students, Schools, and Society,” 27

Hitler, Adolf, 185

HIV/AIDS, 36–37

HMHS Britannica, 132

The Hobbit (Tolkien), 203

hobbling, 82

hobo, 68–69

Hodges, Bill, 196, 200, 204

Holmes, Odetta, 74

Hooke, Robert, 154–155

Hopley, Duncan, 66

horror literature, 134

House Select Committee on Assassination, 188

“Humbug” (The X-Files), 97