In Stephen King’s novel The Long Walk, 100 teenage boys walk the border of Canada and the United States in the ultimate game. If these boys slow down too many times, or stop walking, they are shot until only one is left, upon which he is the...

Stephen King’s acclaimed short story “The Mist” tells the story of David Drayton and his efforts to protect his son Billy from a supernatural and blindingly thick mist that rapidly swallows the town of Bridgton, Maine, as well as the monstrous...

Stephen King’s Carrie and Peter Shaffer’s Equus both centre around teenage characters who are torn between their emergent sexuality and the religious views of their parents. King and Shaffer use characterisation to portray lust as a sin, then use...

The gothic influence is still undeniably present on contemporary fiction. Although this influence is rather obvious in most of cases, it is more complex that it seems in some works, specifically in the creation of certain atmospheres or the...

The themes Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick explore in the story of the Torrance family at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining reflect the cultural values and concerns prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s society. These issues are so deeply...

In Stephen King’s The Green Mile, King’s characterization of death row inmate John Coffey as someone living with an intellectual disability, which oftentimes throughout the novel has the effect of infantilizing Coffey, works to challenge readers’...

Stephen King’s The Green Mile is an overtly Magical Realist text by means of one of the novel’s focal protagonists – John Coffey. Coffey is summarily described by Nada Hussein as ‘the huge Black prisoner [who] has magical healing abilities […]...