Secret Windows
Book by Stephen King
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing is a collection of short stories, essays, speeches, and book excerpts by Stephen King, published in 2000. It was marketed by Book-of-the-Month Club as a companion to King's On Writing. Although its title is derived from a King novella (Secret Window, Secret Garden), it is not otherwise related to that novella or the film adaptation, Secret Window.[1]
The texts in the collection are primarily concerned with writing and the horror genre. Several of the entries have been published elsewhere, including introductions King had written for other authors' novels, as well as introductions and essays from King's previous books.[1] This volume also includes several short works that had not been previously published elsewhere, including lectures given by King, an interview with King conducted by Muriel Gray, a never-before-published short story by King, titled "In the Deathroom," and an introduction written by Peter Straub.
Contents
| Title | Originally published in |
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| Introduction by Peter Straub | Previously unreleased |
Dave's Rag
| Dave's Rag (1959–1960) |
| The horror market writer and the ten bears: A true story | Writer's Digest (1973) |
| Foreword to Night Shift | Night Shift (1978) |
| On becoming a brand name | Adelina magazine (1980) |
| Horror fiction | Danse Macabre (1981) |
| An evening at the Billerica (Massachusetts) library | 1983 |
| The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet | Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine (1984) |
| How It happened | Book-of-the-month-club news (1986) |
| Banned books and other concerns: The Virginia Beach lecture | Virginia Beach Public Library (1986) |
| Turning the thumbscrew on the reader | Book-of-the-month-club news (1987) |
| "Ever et raw meat?" and other weird questions | The New York Times book review (1987) |
| A new introduction to John Fowles's The Collector | The Collector (1989) |
| What Stephen King does for love | Seventeen (1990) |
| Two past midnight: A note on Secret Window, Secret Garden | Four Past Midnight (1990) |
| Introduction to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door | The Girl Next Door (1995) |
| Great hookers I have known | |
| A night at the Royal Festival Hall: Muriel Gray interviews Stephen King | 1998 |
| An evening with Stephen King | 1999 |
| In the Deathroom | Blood and Smoke (1999) |
References
- ^ a b Gray, Richard (8 January 2022). "Inconstant Reader: Secret Windows – essays and fiction on the craft of writing". The Reel Bits. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
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Stephen King
- Carrie (1974)
- 'Salem's Lot (1975)
- The Shining (1977)
- The Stand (1978)
- The Dead Zone (1979)
- Firestarter (1980)
- Cujo (1981)
- Christine (1983)
- Pet Sematary (1983)
- Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
- The Talisman (1984)
- It (1986)
- The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
- Misery (1987)
- The Tommyknockers (1987)
- The Dark Half (1989)
- Needful Things (1991)
- Gerald's Game (1992)
- Dolores Claiborne (1992)
- Insomnia (1994)
- Rose Madder (1995)
- The Green Mile (1996)
- Desperation (1996)
- Bag of Bones (1998)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
- The Plant (2000; unfinished)
- Dreamcatcher (2001)
- Black House (2001)
- From a Buick 8 (2002)
- The Colorado Kid (2005)
- Cell (2006)
- Lisey's Story (2006)
- Duma Key (2008)
- Under the Dome (2009)
- 11/22/63 (2011)
- Joyland (2013)
- Doctor Sleep (2013)
- Mr. Mercedes (2014)
- Revival (2014)
- Finders Keepers (2015)
- End of Watch (2016)
- Gwendy's Button Box (2017)
- Sleeping Beauties (2017)
- The Outsider (2018)
- Elevation (2018)
- The Institute (2019)
- Later (2021)
- Billy Summers (2021)
- Gwendy's Final Task (2022)
- Fairy Tale (2022)
- Holly (2023)
| The Dark Tower series |
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| Richard Bachman novels |
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collections
- Night Shift (1978)
- Different Seasons (1982)
- Skeleton Crew (1985)
- Four Past Midnight (1990)
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
- Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
- Everything's Eventual (2002)
- Just After Sunset (2008)
- Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
- If It Bleeds (2020)
- You Like It Darker (2024)
- Danse Macabre (1981)
- Nightmares in the Sky (1988)
- On Writing (2000)
- Secret Windows (2000)
- Faithful (2004)
- "Guns" (2013)
- Creepshow (1982)
- Cat's Eye (1985)
- Silver Bullet (1985)
- Maximum Overdrive (1986; also director)
- Pet Sematary (1989)
- Sleepwalkers (1992)
- A Good Marriage (2014)
- Cell (2016)
- "Sorry, Right Number" (1987)
- Golden Years (1991)
- The Stand (1994)
- The Shining (1997)
- "Chinga" (1998)
- Storm of the Century (1999)
- Rose Red (2002)
- Kingdom Hospital (2004)
- Desperation (2006)
- "Heads Will Roll" (2014)
- The Stand (2020–21)
- Lisey's Story (2021)
- Heroes for Hope (1985)
- American Vampire (2010)
collaborations
- Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997)
- Black Ribbons (2010)
- Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012)
edited
- The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007)
- Six Scary Stories (2016)
- Flight or Fright (2018)
concepts
- Dollar Baby
- Fictional locations in Maine
- Castle Rock
- Derry
- Jerusalem's Lot
- Shawshank State Prison
- All-World
- Tabitha King (wife)
- Joe Hill (son)
- Owen King (son)
- List of adaptations
- Bibliography of works on Stephen King
- Raymond H. Fogler Library archives
- Rock Bottom Remainders
- People, Places and Things
- Philtrum Press
- Six Stories
- Stephen King Goes to the Movies
- Charlie the Choo-Choo
- Hearts in Suspension
- The Secretary of Dreams
- King on Screen
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