![]() ![]() It is not a horror novel, per se, but more in the mold of the supernatural, and slightly science fictionish, genre of The Stand and The Dead Zone. Firestarter (published September 1980) does amplify themes that are intrinsic to King's work: issues of morality and free will and choice. And, with that in mind, I made my peace with Firestarter. King is attempting to amplify themes that are intrinsic to his work. I thought that critics might claim that Steve King had started to eat himself but I recognized that they would do no such thing if I were a "serious" novelist – they would say. And I realized that it should be possible for a writer to revisit themes if it betters his work. The only way that I could return to Firestarter was upon rereading what I had written, and realizing that, not only was it less like Carrie than I thought – it was also better than Carrie. And once that begins, self-parody cannot be far away. I had this depressing feeling that I was a thirty-year-old man who had already lapsed into self-imitation. ![]() As Stephen King was writing the first draft of Firestarter, he feared that he was repeating himself, reworking ideas and even scenes that he had used in Carrie. ![]()
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