（外文电子版资料）Stephen King - Lets Talk About Fear.pdf

FOREWORD FOREWORD Lets talk, you and I. Lets talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. Its night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way its blowing now, we lose the power. But for now its on, and so lets talk very honestly about fear. Lets talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madness. . . and perhaps over the edge. My name is Stephen King. I am a grown man with a wife and three children. I love them, and I believe that the feeling is reciprocated. My job is writing, and its a job I like very much. The stories - Carrie, Salems Lot, and The Shining - have been successful enough to allow me to write full-time, which is an agreeable thing to be able to do. At this point in my life I seem to be reasonably healthy. In the last year I have been able to reduce my cigarette habit from the unfiltered brand I had smoked since I was eighteen to a low nicotine and tar brand, and I still hope to be able to quit completely. My family and I live in a pleasant house beside a relatively unpolluted lake in Maine; last fall I awoke one morning and saw a deer standing on the back lawn by the picnic table. We have a good life. Still. . . lets talk about fear. We wont raise our voices and we wont scream; well talk rationally, you and I. Well talk about the way the good fabric of things sometimes has a way of unravelling with shocking suddenness. At night, when I go to bed, I still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blanket after the lights go out. Im not a child any more but. . .I dont like to sleep with one leg sticking out. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, I might scream. Yes, I might scream to wake the dead. That sort of thing doesnt happen, of course, and we all know that. In the stories that follow you will encounter all manner of night creatures; vampires, demon lovers, a thing