A No Go Area?

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Notaro

Stark Raving Normal
Mar 23, 2007
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"The closest I want to come to definition or rationalization is to suggest that the genre [of horror fiction] exists on three more or less separate levels, each one a little less fine than the one before it. . . I recognize terror as the finest emotion . . . and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find I cannot terrify him/her, I will try to horrify; and if I find I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." - Stephen King, "Danse Macabre"

I remember reading the above quote years ago and I've always wondered what would be a storyline that Stephen King wouldn't write about. His stories contain horrific acts

perpetrated against all and sundry, young and old but what topic or storyline would be taboo , untouchable, a no go area?
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
Jun 15, 2007
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"The closest I want to come to definition or rationalization is to suggest that the genre [of horror fiction] exists on three more or less separate levels, each one a little less fine than the one before it. . . I recognize terror as the finest emotion . . . and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find I cannot terrify him/her, I will try to horrify; and if I find I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." - Stephen King, "Danse Macabre"

I remember reading the above quote years ago and I've always wondered what would be a storyline that Stephen King wouldn't write about. His stories contain horrific acts

perpetrated against all and sundry, young and old but what topic or storyline would be taboo , untouchable, a no go area?
....great question!.....can't recall him ever answering that query....