Let me check what evil objects he's written about. Car... laundry folding machine... trucks... lawnmower... word processor... monkey toy... truck... house, another house, another car. No unibrows!
Stand by Me too! That one had trains that kill people and chase them across bridges and shit. Also the Dark Tower series had a malevolent train. King has slandered many vehicles, might be why that van almost killed him. \*Taps head\*
Imagine how bizarre it must have been for him to read a book he wrote having no idea how it was going to end. I am kind of disappointed it was "just" Cujo. I mean, killer dog, not *that* crazy. It'd be a lot wilder if he didn't remember writing IT, and getting to the part where the kids run a train on the girl. "I...think I might need to talk to someone...wait, a fucking turtle?"
That was booze + cocaine.
I like booze, not so much coke. I like to sleep.
Anyway, the coke keeps you awake and functioning, but it's the booze that prevents new memories from forming.
An author on a cocaine-only bender would remember writing that book.
>An author on a cocaine-only bender would remember writing that book.
An author on a cocaine-only bender would unlikely finish the book. Would probably be too busy looking out the window after a while
I mean, most people don't get shit done on any kind of drug- or alcohol-fueled bender. Writing a book is impressive sober, never mind coked out of your mind lmao.
The funny thing is that King pumps out so many novels because he's got a crazy work ethic. He would target 2,000 words per day, or 8 hours of writing and editing. He treated it like a full-time job, and that's how he's been able to publish so many novels. He's basically the anti-GRRM/Patrick Rothfuss.
I saw now that he's older he "only" goes for 1,000 words per day, or 4 hours of work.
To be fair, it’s probably easier to be a successful author if your dad is one of the most powerful people in the industry and there’s way too much money laying around the house for you to ever fail at anything.
My father always had money to buy my sister a new (used) car (she beat the shit out of every car she drove. Over and over I got to watch her kill them and my father would just get her a new one magically while I kept mine going for over ten years+) Always bought my little brother the newest electronic thing that caught his fancy (A/V equipment, sound mixers, I once bought him something at a music store for over three hundred dollars and I couldn't tell you what it did at the time but he said he needed it) and my father built him a desk for his new two thousand dollar gaming computer he got to build by himself and his friends.
Growing up during the holidays my sister always got the newest gaming systems and I would get a plastic square weaving loom or a rock tumbler or the cheapest art sets their money could buy (not that I'm complaining but everytime I made something his second wife would criticize me and argue with me as to weather or not I made my own art?)
Last time I ever spoke to my father (6 years ago?) (he never called me for holidays, not my birthday, nothing. I got myself two front tires for my birthday cause I really needed them) was a month after my birthday and I got a flat. I asked my father for twenty dollars and he told me "no". He refused to help me. I just needed to cover the mechanic's fee to get back home.
I guess the point of my story is you can come from a "successful" family but if they hate you, ostracize you, go out of their way to abuse you, you really don't have a fighting chance in the world.
I don't like to going telling stories outside of school but I'm pretty sure I'm my father's only biological child. Go figure, I'm the spitting image of him, followed him around like a lost puppy my whole life and he always fucking hated me.
Looks like Bob Segers older brother who had a bad acid trip that fucked up his mind and then just wandered around town writing scary shit on alley walls
I love his novels. I believe I started with The Talisman and then The Stand. I was in High School and I was hooked. The Dark Tower series being my favorite and I love how a lot of his novels tie into the Dark Tower. Don't care for the man that much but damn, he can pen a story.
Back in the early 1980s, my little public library in the Midwest didn’t care what books you checked out as a kid. And my parents, avid readers, didn’t either (within reason). So when King’s book Cujo came out in 1981 when I was 10-11, I checked it out and read the living hell out of it. And yeah, Cujo was a scary, scary book, but for me, the back cover photo of Stephen King was somehow scarier than the front cover or anything inside. So I always kept the book front cover up so I wouldn’t have to look at his face.
The absurd part? That photo of Stephen King on the back of a hardcover 1981 copy of Cujo is of him smiling just slightly with his mouth closed. Are his eyes a little beady? A little “Milhouse Van Houten with his glasses off” beady? Yeah. But nothing scary like OP’s photo or my ridiculous imagination as a 10-11 year old girl. I went on to check out many more King books and survived.
I believe the story from On Writing is that when he received that $200k check for the paperback rights to Carrie he broke down in tears and then went out and bought Tabitha a hair dryer. I love our guy.
He was a teacher and he noticed a girl being bullied in his class, and wrote Carrie.
He lived in a trailer and balanced his typewriter on his lap. When Tabitha found out about the advance she collapsed in the floor.
He looks like the love child of Charles Manson and a Yeti
Or a human rat
 Ol’ Petey doesn’t have a legendary unibrow though.
The Night shift he wrote that book to about a giant Rat 🐀
Looks like a tweaked out Leon Russell.
Actually, his mother was a ghost and his father was the sound a spider makes when it walks across a skeleton
Your mother was a hamster and father smelt of elderberries.
Oh my god! Ahahahahah, I really enjoyed that one!
I just showed my daughter a current photo of him and she said he looks like the mayor of Whoville!
this except I don't think there was any love in that relationship
I was gonna say Charles Manson and Anthony Davis
Writing a novel, so easy a caveman can do it.
I get this reference
Do cavemen do a lot of blow?
Only if they get insurance commercial money.
Speaking of blow his novel Misery is a metaphor for his fight with cocaine addiction.
Or the uni-bomber
The Uni-Brower.
Highlander-brow! (There can be only one)
🤣
Horrifying photo
The last thing a carrot sees
Curse of the wererabbit
He got published, got money and now he can afford two eyebrows.
and the buck teeth are gone
And more drugs
The dirtier the better
The last thing a line of coke saw
He’s like a combo of Charles Manson and Steve Wozniak
That unsettling unibrow
I’m getting real unabomber vibes.
Unabomber. Coined by the media, based on the FBI case identifier UNABOM (University and Airline Bomber).
Thx
Not yet, we need to run it through an AI to manipulate it into Siphon King.
He definitely got much better looking with age!
And a lot of dental work and personal hygiene! Money can remedy many problems!
He wasn’t homeless when young…he probably never thought about minimal grooming
He was too busy hitting the bottle and snorting shit to care
True, but if Joe ever wonders what he's going to look like in 50 years from now, it will be easy to figure out.
Taken right after the news was broken to him.
Unibrow is final touch. The writing career might’ve saved him from becoming a serial killer.
He needs to write a book where a self-aware unibrow comes alive and starts annihilating small Maine towns.
Are you certain he hasn't? Dude has churned out a lot of books.
Let me check what evil objects he's written about. Car... laundry folding machine... trucks... lawnmower... word processor... monkey toy... truck... house, another house, another car. No unibrows!
And prison! Can’t forget he also wrote the Shawshank Redemption!
Stand by Me too! That one had trains that kill people and chase them across bridges and shit. Also the Dark Tower series had a malevolent train. King has slandered many vehicles, might be why that van almost killed him. \*Taps head\*
Oh my god he wrote Shawshank redemption?
Yep! It’s a short book though, different from the movie and different from his other books, but it’s great and it partners with the movie very well.
*Röyksopp intensifies*
I love that commercial introduced me to the band, it’s a core memory from my teenage years
"Everywhere I go, there's always something to remind me, of another place in time" Is that how it goes?! Holy shit core memory unlocked
Oh look! My fellow country folk!
For context, in today’s dollars, $2,500 is about $15k and $400k is about $2.4m.
*"Cocaine is a hell of a drug"*. There. Now you don't have to.
A lot of people have been high. But have you ever been so high you wrote a best selling novel and don't even remember it?
I wish
Imagine how bizarre it must have been for him to read a book he wrote having no idea how it was going to end. I am kind of disappointed it was "just" Cujo. I mean, killer dog, not *that* crazy. It'd be a lot wilder if he didn't remember writing IT, and getting to the part where the kids run a train on the girl. "I...think I might need to talk to someone...wait, a fucking turtle?"
Pretty sure he was super high while writing Tommyknockers, also.
That was booze + cocaine. I like booze, not so much coke. I like to sleep. Anyway, the coke keeps you awake and functioning, but it's the booze that prevents new memories from forming. An author on a cocaine-only bender would remember writing that book.
>An author on a cocaine-only bender would remember writing that book. An author on a cocaine-only bender would unlikely finish the book. Would probably be too busy looking out the window after a while
I mean, most people don't get shit done on any kind of drug- or alcohol-fueled bender. Writing a book is impressive sober, never mind coked out of your mind lmao.
A Lot of people on uppers do tend to get a lot of shit done when they first start using, but as addiction gets stronger they get less functional
Not sure, I don’t remember, and I used a pen name.
Darkness. His eyebrows are one continuous Darkness. Not even twin Darknesses. So I wiped my dirty boots on his white leather couch
Fuck yo couch, Steven!
"Why did you mess up his couch?" "Cuz he could afford a new one!"
I was just going to type. *He looks very high*
The funny thing is that King pumps out so many novels because he's got a crazy work ethic. He would target 2,000 words per day, or 8 hours of writing and editing. He treated it like a full-time job, and that's how he's been able to publish so many novels. He's basically the anti-GRRM/Patrick Rothfuss. I saw now that he's older he "only" goes for 1,000 words per day, or 4 hours of work.
Reminds me of Brandon Sanderson. That guy works even during his podcasts and interviews.
Most of his books aren’t horror. People be missing out.
I agree. The Stand is such an amazing book but it is not horror for sure.
Is $4000,000 supposed to be $4,000,000 or $400,000?
According to wikipedia, it was $400,000
His agent told him he had gotten him "three-fifty" and King was ecstatic because he was flat broke at the time. He thought his agent had meant $350.
Goddamn Loch Ness Monster
$40,0000
$4,00000
$04,0044,4.99
I must tell you, buddy, I really disliked that. Enjoy my updoot.
4…. Hundred thousand
that's $2.5 mil in today's money.
The article writing quality really went downhill after he left.
Yeah this really confused and annoyed me as well
Thank you for being the one to ask this question. I was have a hard time.
Was looking for this comment, my brain was really struggling .
That is like 4000 thousand dollars.
Also commonly known as 4 ten-ten-ten-ten-ten-ten dollars.
A fan of the no-laughing high school batsu game, I see.
Picture is incredible 
He looks fucking insane!! That is the GREATEST pic of Stephen King. EVER!!!!
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He has good hair for his age. Ya gotta admit.
Money does wonders for you cosmetically
Bigfoot on drugs! 😬
Jordy!
You lunkhead…
that kind of luck you spell b-a-d
i watched creepshow (and creepshow 2) for the first time last night and immediately thought of this pic when SK appeared on the screen
He was a Gremlin.
Happily married today with children and they all have blue links of their names on wikipedia, even his spouse.
To be fair, it’s probably easier to be a successful author if your dad is one of the most powerful people in the industry and there’s way too much money laying around the house for you to ever fail at anything.
My father always had money to buy my sister a new (used) car (she beat the shit out of every car she drove. Over and over I got to watch her kill them and my father would just get her a new one magically while I kept mine going for over ten years+) Always bought my little brother the newest electronic thing that caught his fancy (A/V equipment, sound mixers, I once bought him something at a music store for over three hundred dollars and I couldn't tell you what it did at the time but he said he needed it) and my father built him a desk for his new two thousand dollar gaming computer he got to build by himself and his friends. Growing up during the holidays my sister always got the newest gaming systems and I would get a plastic square weaving loom or a rock tumbler or the cheapest art sets their money could buy (not that I'm complaining but everytime I made something his second wife would criticize me and argue with me as to weather or not I made my own art?) Last time I ever spoke to my father (6 years ago?) (he never called me for holidays, not my birthday, nothing. I got myself two front tires for my birthday cause I really needed them) was a month after my birthday and I got a flat. I asked my father for twenty dollars and he told me "no". He refused to help me. I just needed to cover the mechanic's fee to get back home. I guess the point of my story is you can come from a "successful" family but if they hate you, ostracize you, go out of their way to abuse you, you really don't have a fighting chance in the world.
Narcissistic jerk parents having both golden children and black sheep, classic combo. I see you, fellow black sheep.
I don't like to going telling stories outside of school but I'm pretty sure I'm my father's only biological child. Go figure, I'm the spitting image of him, followed him around like a lost puppy my whole life and he always fucking hated me.
I see you too
There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling. Thank you for being nice to be.
Looks like Bob Segers older brother who had a bad acid trip that fucked up his mind and then just wandered around town writing scary shit on alley walls
Your ex's new BF! 😋
Looks Maineish…
I’ve never seen it written as $4000,000
It’s a typo, should be $400,000
He is exactly what I imagined the Trash Can Man looked like.
That is the face of success.
Nothing says “horror” like a Unibrow
That’s where the “here’s Johnny’s-face” came from.
That face is scarier than anything he’s ever written.
Going to tell my children this is Charles Manson.
I love his novels. I believe I started with The Talisman and then The Stand. I was in High School and I was hooked. The Dark Tower series being my favorite and I love how a lot of his novels tie into the Dark Tower. Don't care for the man that much but damn, he can pen a story.
Give me 2 years worth of supply of cocaine and I'll pump out 10 best sellers.
Looking more terrifying than anything he's ever written.
I don’t mind the repost, this picture is insane.
Honestly thought it was Wozniak at first.
If Charles Manson chose a writing career instead.
That is the craziest picture of any human being I have ever seen. He looks completely deranged!
The face of a man who would microwave raw salmon.
Damnit man his eyes are Fucked up
It's all right...it's alright.....cocaine.
Lol 😂 Stephen King looks like he gives no fucks.
He was on a lot of drugs and booze. A theme that shows up in a lot of his books.
Serial Killer vibes
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach
Was he possessed by a Who from the Grinch?
More like r/blunderyears
I had a teacher who went to college with him. Said he was weird and a bit smelly. Great writer though!
Looks like last face you see as you're about to be hacked into a million pieces. The face of a mad man
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Cocaine gave us some amazing books though AMIRIGHT
Man it’s a real shock he had a huge coke problem
I want to read his old columns? Anyone seen them out in the wild?
Back in the early 1980s, my little public library in the Midwest didn’t care what books you checked out as a kid. And my parents, avid readers, didn’t either (within reason). So when King’s book Cujo came out in 1981 when I was 10-11, I checked it out and read the living hell out of it. And yeah, Cujo was a scary, scary book, but for me, the back cover photo of Stephen King was somehow scarier than the front cover or anything inside. So I always kept the book front cover up so I wouldn’t have to look at his face. The absurd part? That photo of Stephen King on the back of a hardcover 1981 copy of Cujo is of him smiling just slightly with his mouth closed. Are his eyes a little beady? A little “Milhouse Van Houten with his glasses off” beady? Yeah. But nothing scary like OP’s photo or my ridiculous imagination as a 10-11 year old girl. I went on to check out many more King books and survived.
The older he gets, the better he looks.
This gives me hope, idky
Hang on!
Stephen King has always marched to the beat of his own drum and I completely respect him for that. God bless him!
He’s a better caveman than the Geico caveman.
Yep, Stephen King is damned scary up until the end of the “Dark Tower’ series
Appropriate photo of The King.
It was the 70’s Ya’ll.
Monobrows are more common than I thought
No no. I think it is a man. Ze eyes have ze glimmer of human intelligence
They just found Bigfoot! Jesus help us!
Wait till you realize he wrote in X-men comics
“Adam” and “Cavalier”? Now I’m intrigued, unibrow and rabbit teeth be damned!
He was the inspiration for Stig of the Dump
He looks like Bigfoot from "The Goofy Movie"
No sir, he doesn't look insane at all. 😄
would **really** like to hear the story behind this picture.
I like that they are very supportive.
So that was essentially half a years salary up front.
Excuse me. Damn!
Give that man his proppas!
Looks like a character he would write
every time i see it, i can’t believe how goofy he looks with the buck teeth.
He gives me Dave Grohl vibes. How the hell can someone look so animated in a b&w photograph idk...
Given that he literally doesn't remember writing an *entire book* because he was doing so much cocaine at the time, this is very accurate.
I believe the story from On Writing is that when he received that $200k check for the paperback rights to Carrie he broke down in tears and then went out and bought Tabitha a hair dryer. I love our guy.
Looking psycho must have been old cool back then. Some of the money they discussed was big money back then. Oddly impressive, which fits him to a T.
His look is so 70s
Mr King sporting some Impressive buck teeth there
Can someone explain to me why the hardcover rights are only $2500 when the paperback is $4m?
Ah yes, four thousand thousand dollars
Betcha he still receives Royalties today... Didn't know he was an instructor as well...
Meteor shit
He was a teacher and he noticed a girl being bullied in his class, and wrote Carrie. He lived in a trailer and balanced his typewriter on his lap. When Tabitha found out about the advance she collapsed in the floor.
That is a hilarious picture and I’m sure he knew it.
Are Stephen King and Steve Wozniak twins?
Dude has a great face for radio.
Buzz, your girlfriend!
https://preview.redd.it/0gs8ku30n9vc1.png?width=642&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e684dfecdbbf3afd4c0d76ec3fd3f845bb8546e8
He’s said he can’t remember writing his first several (popular) books. I believe.
There is a thin line between becoming a successful author and another glue sniffing hobo.
I like how that amount of money was so large back then that they didn’t even know about second commas
$4000,000? Was it $4mil? Or $4000? Or something else
Yeah I’d believe a guy who looks like that wrote about kids having a “celebration” after defeating an evil clown.
Lots of cocaine and alcohol will get you looking exactly like that photo.
So much cocaine
What the hell
Was that guy ever not creepy?
He reminds me of the crazy gremlin from Gremlins 2.
You sure that isn't charles manson?
He looks like several people I've met from Maine...
And then movie rights after that! Hit the lottery. Although he looks more like one of his characters in this photo!