Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King, born September 21, 1947) is a highly successful writer of horror fiction novels. For other people named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ...
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King barely missed the driver's side support post in the van and also barely missed a spread of rocks on the ground near where he landed, either of which would likely have killed him or put him in a permanent coma.
King was released from the hospital after three weeks, then went through half a dozen surgeries on his leg and the accompanying physical therapy.
King staged a mock funeral for Bachman after the pseudonym was made public, which in turn inspired the book The Dark Half, in which a novelist stages the burial of his horror author pseudonym after having a "serious" novel published, only to find that his alter ego does not want to leave quite so easily.