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
Stephen King short fiction bibliography (1993), "Everything's Eventual" (2002), "Just After Sunset" (2008), and "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" (2015); and in King's four novella collections: "Different Seasons" (1982), "Four Past Midnight" (1990), "Hearts in Atlantis" (1999), and "Full Dark, No Stars" (2010). Some of these pieces, however, remain uncollected. A full listing as of December 31, 2004 with citations appears in "The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King" by Rocky Wood, et al. (); as of December 31, 2005 in "Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished" ( and ) by Rocky Wood, "et al."; and as of late 2007 in Justin Brooks' "Stephen King: