Stephen King at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication. King has used other pseudonyms. The short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel "Carrie"), that was published in "Cavalier" in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel "Blaze", King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" was the person using the
The King Is Dead (novel) is the final Ellery Queen novel set in Wrightsville, but only for a chapter. While some Queen novels focus on character development, this one is in the "puzzle" category, with complex clues and efforts to explain seemingly impossible events. According to one fan resource, "There isn't too much mystery about whodunit -- it's more a question of howdidhedoit." The King Is Dead (novel) The King Is Dead is a novel published in 1951 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel set primarily on a fictional island, but also partly in Wrightsville, a fictional small town in the northeastern United