While Stephen King is universally beloved when it comes to horror, his actual stories tend to be very specific. Indeed, King revisits certain themes and horror scenarios over and over, clearly sticking with his own personal interests as an author. Many have likely noted that King has written multiple stories about alcoholic authors struggling to keep their lives together. This makes sense when you read King's personal tales of cocaine addiction, a problem he grappled with throughout the 1980s. Many of King's stories, from "The Body" to "It" to "Dreamcatcher," are based on his personal nostalgia for the 1950s, and the close-knit group of guy friends he had as a boy.

King also often writes about the dangers of religious zealotry and the terrors of living with abusive parent figures. He of

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