Pseudonym cancer ; Stephen King's deceased alter ego returns with a thriller that that fills a gap in the master's oeuvre

The Independent on Sunday | June 3, 2007| | Copyright

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By Richard Bachman with a foreword by Stephen King

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Stephen King initially used the pseudonym "Richard Bachman" for two reasons: because his publishers refused to let him to put out more than one book a year, and because he wanted to test whether it was possible to have the same massive success twice. Most of the Bachman novels were written between 1966 and 1973, and are downbeat thrillers rather than horror novels. The Running Man has science- fiction elements, but it was only with 1984's Thinner that it became difficult to tell Bachman and King apart (so much so ...

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