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
Books about Stephen King his own partly autobiographical "" (2000), as well as scattered throughout King's "Danse Macabre" (1981). A critical analysis of King's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's "The Modern Weird Tale" (2001). Books about Stephen King There have been many books published about Stephen King and his works. 1981 Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King Edward J. Zagorski: New American Library, Education Dept 1984 Stephen King: The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre Douglas E. Winter Signet Updated edition (December 2, 1986) 1986 Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King Tim