Blaze (novel) Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of "Different Seasons") it was written before "Carrie" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as "'Salem's Lot". They chose the latter to be his second novel and "Blaze" became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the
Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done was shot with a handheld camera by the episode's director, TJ Scott, with Maslany and Outerbridge improvising the dialogue and use of props. The subsequent shot of the barn on fire was created by the visual effects company Intelligent Creatures. The title of the final two episodes, "Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done" and "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried", are taken from a Francis Bacon quotation in his philosophical work "Novum Organum": "It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means