King was hospitalized for a full month, and doctors even considered amputating his leg. A man in a Dodge Caravan hit him while he was out walking, causing a collapsed lung, broken leg, and shattered hip. What makes it sort of eerie in a Stephen King kind of way is that years after he wrote most of the stories involving vehicular terrors, he was almost killed by one in 1999. I guess I'd never really noticed, even though we all know about Christine and Maximum Overdrive, but once you start blazing through his entire oeuvre, it's very hard to not notice how often people meet their ends by way of vehicle, or in how many stories the vehicle creates the catalyst for the tale. I've been revisiting some of his earlier short-story collections and came to the sudden realization that King has a thing for vehicles. Pretty much every horror writer currently working has been influenced by him, so if you're a fan of horror then you owe him a debt of gratitude because he not only affected every aspect of the genre today, but he helped its popularity grow as many in the mainstream crowd suddenly discovered horror through him. He's earned the title "King of Horror" by delivering hundreds of stories that in turn spawned countless adaptations into movies and television, and even a video game or two. Stephen King is a juggernaut of a writer. WHY IS STEPHEN KING SO AFRAID OF VEHICLES?
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