![]() ![]() Redundancy and economic woes had coincided with the arrival of a first child. In 2011, things were grim in the Adil-Smith household. ![]() ![]() Martin Adil-Smith’s “A Gathering of Twine” The rest is history, but it was only with the success of “IT” and “Misery” that saw a new edition published in 1990, with the original material re-inserted.Ģ. It was only when King voluntarily cut more than FOUR HUNDRED PAGES from his longest tome that Double Day agreed to consider it. The marketing team couldn’t figure out how to pitch it to the public, and his editor refused to touch it. How crushing it must have been to have had his fourth book – “The Stand” initially rejected by his publishers, Doubleday. In 1978, Stephen King was riding high – “Carrie”, “Salem’s Lot”, and “The Shining” had all been bestsellers. Stephen King’s “The Stand” The Stand – Stephen King A list of our favourite horror books that nearly never were.ġ. ![]()
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