After the author Richard Bachman was outed as a pseudonym for one of the single most popular English-language writers of the late 20th century, his creator felt the need to address the “why” of it all. In an intro for The Bachman Books, which collected four of the novellas penned under that name, Stephen King explained that he took on the literary alter ego partially as a blind taste test for readers, and partially as a way of publishing more work without saturating the market. There’s another reason, however, that can be read between the lines of what King describes as “the Bachman state of mind: low rage and simmering despair.” This was not just a pseudonym. It was also an outlet for some serious Bachman-King Overdrive.

The guy behind The Shining was never one to shy away from the

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