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Topic	Snake Ranks Anything Horror Related Vol. 3 RANKINGS
Snake5555555555 11/17/18 12:37:51 PM #374:	1. Stephen King (28 points) Nominated by: Inviso (0/6 remaining) https://imgur.com/gallery/DBVpM Importance: 10 Fear: 8 Snake: 10 Stephen King is the definitive and most influential guiding hand in horror of the late 20th and 21st centuries. He's one of the best-selling authors in the world, with over 30 of his books getting a number one spot on the best-sellers list, despite some critical difficulties. The stories range from the straight-forward (Misery) to the ambitious (the epic Dark Tower series), and novels like The Stand, IT, The Shining, and Misery are considered modern-day classics. One of the best parts of King's work is their inter-connectivity, both in theming and in the more literal sense. King repeatedly draws on his own life experiences, and typically writes about outcasts, children coming-of-age, and authors. The fears he portrays are often psychological in nature, and focus on the human mind more so than they do the monsters. The books are often rooted in small-town traps and have an illusion of normalcy separated by a thin line with the fantastical. King makes you believe his stories could really happen, because the horror always come from a very human place and invokes a pathos that's inside all of us. However, with a few exceptions, King always provides hope and a way out of the personal traps we all create for ourselves. There's a crap-ton of adaptations of his books and short stories, ranging from the hilariously bad (Sleepwalkers) to horror landmarks (Carrie, The Shining) to a film considered by some to be the best of all time (The Shawshank Redemption). King's work has parodied, satired, and homaged to in everything from The Simpsons to Friends, and one of the best homages is the smash-hit Stranger Things, and you can see King's hands all over it from its slick opening credits to small-town darkness. King has been there since the beginning for me; the first horror-related thing I ever remember experiencing is the 1990 IT miniseries when I was 6. It scared me silly, but it also ignited the spark that made me a horror fan for life. I'm absolutely indebted to King and his novels and films and miniseries and overall he could very well be my favorite horror creator ever. With a story for everyone, King is the perfect gateway drug to becoming a budding horror fan, and the landscape of horror would look pretty different right now if not for his outstanding influence, and that's something that creates legacy and an indisputable place in pop culture history. --- If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will! http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://i.imgtc.com/3qwvxhc.jpg <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:912564069] in Snake Rank... [t:77057251]...</cite> <quote>1. Stephen King (28 points) Nominated by: Inviso (0/6 remaining) https://imgur.com/gallery/DBVpM Importance: 10 Fear: 8 Snake: 10 Stephen King is the definitive and most influential guiding hand in horror of the late 20th and 21st centuries. He's one of the best-selling authors in the world, with over 30 of his books getting a number one spot on the best-sellers list, despite some critical difficulties. The stories range from the straight-forward (Misery) to the ambitious (the epic Dark Tower series), and novels like The Stand, IT, The Shining, and Misery are considered modern-day classics. One of the best parts of King's work is their inter-connectivity, both in theming and in the more literal sense. King repeatedly draws on his own life experiences, and typically writes about outcasts, children coming-of-age, and authors. The fears he portrays are often psychological in nature, and focus on the human mind more so than they do the monsters. The books are often rooted in small-town traps and have an illusion of normalcy separated by a thin line with the fantastical. King makes you believe his stories could really happen, because the horror always come from a very human place and invokes a pathos that's inside all of us. However, with a few exceptions, King always provides hope and a way out of the personal traps we all create for ourselves. There's a crap-ton of adaptations of his books and short stories, ranging from the hilariously bad (Sleepwalkers) to horror landmarks (Carrie, The Shining) to a film considered by some to be the best of all time (The Shawshank Redemption). King's work has parodied, satired, and homaged to in everything from The Simpsons to Friends, and one of the best homages is the smash-hit Stranger Things, and you can see King's hands all over it from its slick opening credits to small-town darkness. King has been there since the beginning for me; the first horror-related thing I ever remember experiencing is the 1990 IT miniseries when I was 6. It scared me silly, but it also ignited the spark that made me a horror fan for life. I'm absolutely indebted to King and his novels and films and miniseries and overall he could very well be my favorite horror creator ever. With a story for everyone, King is the perfect gateway drug to becoming a budding horror fan, and the landscape of horror would look pretty different right now if not for his outstanding influence, and that's something that creates legacy and an indisputable place in pop culture history. --- If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will! http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://i.imgtc.com/3qwvxhc.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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