The Science of Stephen King

sensory processing disorder, 209–210

serialization, 118

serotonin, 39

Shakur, Tupac, 31

Sheldon, Paul, 80, 85

Shelley, Mary, 199, 199

shining, 190

“The Shining: The Hellish World of the Tyrannical Patriarch” (Derin), 12

The Shining (King), ix, 10–17, 50, 116, 135, 140–142, 217

alcohol abuse, 11, 13–14

balance of good and evil, 17

domestic abuse, 11–12

film, 140–142

inspiration for, 11

isolation, 11–12

movie, 12

opera, 190

patriarch, tyrannical, 12

short stories, 38

Shumway, Julia, 178

Signet Books, 4

Simon, Helmut, 62

Simons, Laurent, 211

skin conditions, 65

sleep, need for, 110–111. See also Insomnia

Sleeping Beauties (King and King), 129–130

Sleeping Beauty, 129

smallpox, 34–35

vaccine, 52

Smith, Bryan, 159

Smithsonian, 20

Smits, Jimmy, 86

smoking and quitting, 44, 61

benefits, 44

Smythe, James, 92–93

snow birds, 166

sonic weapons, 156

soul, 104, 109, 193–194, 203

Beowulf, 105

and Christianity, 104

and Hinduism, 104–105

and Islam, 104

photographs, 106

weight of, 106–107

spacetime, 182–183

Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 54

Speer, Albert, 156

spinal meningitis, 56–57

St. Augustine, Florida, 192

The Stand (King), 32–37, 165

inspiration for, 32–33

pandemic, 35

Stanley Hotel, 11, 116

Stark, George, 93–96, 100

Star Trek TNG time travel, 184

Stephen King Revisited (Chizmar), 135

Stoker, Bram, 18

Storm of the Century (King), 77

Straub, Peter, 129

Strickland, Ashley, 97

string theory, 79

Stroby, Wallace, 110

Stroud, Les, 124–126

suicidal thoughts, 9

sunlight, 169

survival ism, 124–126

Survivorman, 124

Survivorman Three Areas of Assessment, 125

symbiotic relationships, 145

synesthesia, 209

Szentes, Dorotta, 192

T

tails, 66

vestigial, 66

The Talisman (King and Straub), 129

tampons, 6

tapeworms, 64–65

technology, 198–199, 204

impact on living things, 157

and media, 200–201

telekinesis, 4, 9, 201, 212–213

telepathy, 88, 139, 144–145, 200

telephone

history, 154–155

transatlantic call, 155

Tel Lachish, 108

teratoma, 98

Tesla. See Cars, self-driving

Texas School Book Depository, 187

Thanatos, 116

Thinner (King), 61–66, 93–94

curse, 62, 65–66

inspiration for, 61

plot, 62, 64, 66

Thomas, Ben, 106–107

Thunberg, Greta, 176

time travel, 182–184

Tipler, Frank, 183

Tipler cylinder, 183

tobacco death rate, 43

Tolkien, J. R. R., 32, 73, 203

The Tommyknockers (King), 86–91

film, 86

influences, 87

plot, 87–88, 91

quality of, 96

Tool, 31

Torrance, Danny, 14, 190, 195

Torrance, Jack, 11–12, 14, 17, 142

Torrance, Wendy, 15

torture, 43–44

traffic accidents, 63

cause of, 150

tramp, 68–69

The Tramp, 68

trauma, 57, 67

childhood, 12–14

key to overcoming, 57

Trenton, Donna, 52

Trenton, Ted, 52

Trolley Problem, 152–153

Trucks (King), 129, 147, 150

Trump, Donald, 211

tuberculosis, 21–24

twin

absorption, 95

conjoined, 95, 95, 96

Dicephalic Parapagus, 96

parasitic, 96–98

parasitic, surgery, 97

Siamese, 95, 95

typhoid, 145–146

Typhoid Mary, 145

U

Uber, 151

UFOs, 89–90

uncanny, concept of, 71

Under the Dome (King), 165, 173–178

plot, 173

thought process behind, 173–174

United States Marines, 189

University of California Berkeley, 55

University of Maine, 3

University of Turku, 143

U.S. Air Force, 89–90

USA Today, 166

US Department of Transportation, 150

US Radium Corporation, 87–88

Utah, 32–33

V

vaccination, 35

animal, 52–53

anthrax, 53

history, 52–53

smallpox, 52

vampire, 24, 190

panic, 20–21, 21, 22

VanHentenryk, Kevin, 96

vascular disease, 166

“The Veldt” (Bradbury), 10–11

Vicari, Frank, 97

video games and school shooting, 29–30

Vincent, Bev, 134

virus

coronavirus, 32, 37, 146

Hantavirus, 145

macro, 145

The Vocation of Man (Fichte), 184

Volo Auto Museum, 149

The Voyage and Travels of Sir JohnMandeville, 191

W

Walpole, Harold, 18

Wan, James, 86

Warnecke, Dieter, 62–63

Warnick, Bryan R., 28

Warren Commission report, 186

Washington Post, 94

The Waste Lands (King), 200

water, finding, 126

“Weary Willy,” 68

weather and healing, 168–169

weight loss, 61

reasons for, 64–65

Wendigo, legend of, 58–60

Wendy’s, 198

Westside Middle School, 29

White, Carrie, 4, 217

White, Margaret, 5, 7–8

Wikipedia, 96

Wilkes, Annie, 80, 82–83, 85

Williams, Robin, 70

William Wilson (Poe), 205

Wireman, Jerome, 171–172

witch

touch test, 19

trials, 20

wolves

domestication of, 48–49

endangered wildlife regulation, 49

genetic mutation, 48

species, 51

woman’s perspective, 3–4

Wood, Todd, 108

woods, lost in. See Lost in the woods, surviving being

World War II, 156

wormholes, 182–183

Wound Care Education Institute, 169

wound healing, 169

Wrinkles the Clown, 72

Writer’s Digest, 110

X

The X-Files, 97, 201

Y

yeast, 41

You, 139, 141

youth. See Aging, slowing

Yperman, Jan, 81

Yuning, Gao, 151

Z

Zaire, 7

Zanni, 68–69

Zapruder, Abraham, 187

Zaslavsky, Claudia, 7

zombies, 56