The Science of Stephen King

near-death experiences, 195

Needful Things (King), 80, 103–109, 133, 165

plot, 104, 107

Nelson, Lewis, 34

Nelson, Winona, 58–60

Neuromancer (Gibson), 201

neutron activation analysis, 188

Newman, Katherine, 28

Newsday, 198

Newton, Isaac, 184

New York Times, 4, 87, 106, 148

Nicholson, Jack, 142

nicotine addiction, 43. See also

Smoking and quitting; Tobacco

death rate

body’s response, 44

Nightshift (King), 38–44

fungi, 41–42

television show adaptation, 38

nineteen, number, 73

Noah’s Ark fragment, 107–108

Norton, Susan, 19, 24

NOVA, 48

O

obesity, 63–64

obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), 208–209

Ojibwe, 58–59

On Death and Dying (Kubler-Ross), 172

“One for the Road” (King), 19

On Writing (King), 4

opera, 190

Oram, Chamdre, 66

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 181–182, 186–189

Ötzi the Ice Man, 62–63, 63

out-of-body-experience (OBE), 194–195

The Outsider (King), 205–210

blood type, 107

fingerprints, 207

inspiration, 205

plot, 206, 210

overdose, drug, 78, 156

Overlook Hotel, 11, 141, 195

Owens, Dedric Darnell, 28

Oxford, 7

P

pandemic, 35–36

Pangborn, Alan, 104

panic disorder, 9

parallel universes, 78–79, 162

parasites, 64

Pare, Ambrose, 167

parenting

authoritative, 8

lack of affection, 8

religious, 7, 16

religious and child abuse, 7

Parkland Memorial Hospital, 187

Pasteur, Louis, 52–53

Patch Adams, 70

patriarch, tyrannical, 12

Pennywise the clown, 67, 69, 72

persuasion, subliminal, 197

Pet Semetary (King), 50–51, 54–60, 217

burial grounds, 57

film, 129

inspiration, 54

meningitis, 56–57

trauma, 56–57

Wendigo, legend of, 58–60

phantom limb sensation, 167

Phenomena: The Secret History of theU.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (Jacobson), 215

The Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 118

Pituch, Ronald, 31

plague, 33, 35–36

plants, edible, 124–125

plot points, changing for film, 141

Plymouth Fury, 147–148

pneumonia, 127–128, 159

Poe, Edgar Allan, 18, 205

Poltergeist, 69

Portland, Maine, 3

The Possibility of Evil (Jackson), 18

pregnancy, 39

Privacy Badger, 202

protagonists, 80

“Protecting Students from Gun Violence: Does ‘target hardening’ do more harm than good?” (Warnick and Kapa), 28–29

pseudonym, 25–26

psoriasis, 65

Psychiatry Today, 83–84

psychic driving, 214

psychic surgery, 119–120

Psychological Strategy Board, 89

psychopomp, 98–100

psychopomps.org, 99

Pumpkinhead, 210

Q

quarantine, 146

quark-gluon plasma, 79

“Quitters, Inc.” (King), 43–44

motivational tools, 43

plot, 43

R

rabies, 156

Radcliffe, Ann, 18

Radcliffe, Sally, 104, 108

Radford, Ben, 68

Radin, Dean, 215

radiocarbon dating, 107–108

radium, 87–88

Radium Girls, 87–88

Radium Girls (Moore), 87

Rage (Bachman/King), 25

censorship, 29

history of manuscript, 25

inspiration for school shooting, 29

plot, 26–27

revenge, 26

school violence, 27

Rajapaksa, Roshini, 127

Ramey, Roger, 90

ransomware, 202

reading, importance of, 10

Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, ModernScience, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe (Radin), 215

“Re-Branding Stephen King” (Smythe), 92

Reilly, Shawn, 149

reincarnation, 105

Reiner, Rob, 83

reinforcement, negative, 43–44

Reis, Philipp, 155

relativity, theory of, 182

relics, 107, 109

religion

and happiness, 8

and health, 7–8

and parenting, 7, 16

and science, 107

research for books, 13

revenge, 26

Revonsuo, Antti, 143

rewards, 44

rheumatoid arthritis, 103–104

Richard, Eugene C., 148

Rita Hayworth and the ShawshankRedemption (King), 77

RMS Olympic, 132

RMS Titanic, 132

Roadwork (Bachman/King), 29

Roberts, Ralph, 110, 112, 116–117

Robinson, Jerome, 196

Rolling Stone, 86

Romani people, 62

Romano, Aja, 1

“Ronnie” (Metallica), 31

Rope Technique, 194

Rose Madder (King), 14–15

domestic abuse, 15–16

sexual addiction, 15

Rose the Hat, 190

Rossington, Cary, 65

Rossington, Judge, 65

Roswell, New Mexico, 89–90

Roswell Incident, 89–90

Royal Humane Society of London, 54

The Running Man (Bachman/King), 29

Rusk, Brian, 104

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 34

S

sadism, 193

Sadistic Personality Disorder, 193

Saldivar, Yolanda, 83

Salem, Massachusetts, 20

witch trials, 20

Salem’s Lot (King), 18–24, 109, 165

protectiveness, 24

and rural gothic fiction, 19

vampires, 24

Salinger, J. D., 29

sanitary belt, Hoosier, 6

sarin gas, 34

Saw, 86

Schaeffer, Rebecca, 83

Schiro, George, 107

Schizoaffective Disorder, 85

schizophrenia, 83–85

and violence, 85

school security, 28

“The School Shooting/Violent Video Game Link: Causal Relationship or Moral Panic?” (Ferguson), 29–30

school violence, 27–29

cause, 29–30

The Science of Monsters (Hafdahl and Florence), 11

Scituate Reservoir, 87

screenplay adaptation process, 139–142

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), 168–169

Secret Service, 30

seizure, 156

Selena, 83