James Arthur Anderson is a professor at Johnson & Wales University's North Miami Florida campus where he teaches writing, literature, and science fiction. He has published book-length critical studies on H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury, and received The Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for Nonfiction from the Horror Writers Association in 2016.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1.Carrie: The Truth Within the Lie

2.'Salem's Lot: The Word Gives Being

3."The Word Processor of the Gods": The Writer Creates the World

[...] Shining: The Sleep of Reason

[...] Sematary: The Spoken Secret

6.Misery: The Death of the Author

[...] Dark Half: The Duplicity of Language

8."Secret Window, Secret Garden": The Writer's Secrets

9."The Body": Portrait of the Artist

10."The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" and "Dedication": Nature, Nurture and the Writer's Psyche

[...] Running Man: Simulacra and Simulation

[...]: The Unnamable Horror

13.Needful Things: The Linguistics of Brand Names

[...] Green Mile: Remembrance of Things Past

[...] of Bones: King's Horror Matures

[...]: The Metalinguistics of Technology

[...]'s Story: Private Language

18."Ur": Textual Reality

19. "1922" and "A Good Marriage": The Secret Collection

20.Joyland: Linguistic Registers

21.Revival: Cosmic Horror

[...] of Watch: To Be or Not to Be

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index