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Why Stephen King's It still terrifies 30 years on
The bestselling tale of teenagers haunted by a demon remains effective because it’s about so much more than a scary clown. I think you’d struggle to find a more-read author in the 1980s than Stephen King. Throughout the 70s and early 80s, King carved a path for himself as the world’s foremost writer of horror fiction. His books were a double threat: they were both immaculately written and presented, on their most basic levels, subjects that were designed to terrify readers. Each book focused on a topic that drilled into our own neuroses, either real or imagined: the vampires found in Salem’s Lot, the isolation presented by The Shining...
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Because he writes well and his terrible issues are timeless. He has written a book for children, you know?
Not that I know of, his wikipedia page is detailed in what he's written however so it's worth a look.