It is in this book that King's famous quote comes from, I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
This book was an idea put forward by Bill Thompson, King's editor at Doubleday, and it bloomed into one of the best collections of horror anicdotes and memorabilia that has ever been written.
Published by Everest House, 1980
Dedication: It's easy enough - perhaps too easy - to memorialize the dead. This book is for six great writers who are still alive. ROBERT BLOCH, JORGE LUIS BORGES, RAY BRADBURY, FRANK BELKNAP LONG, DONALD WANDREI, MANLY WADE WELLMAN Enter, Stranger, at your Riske: Here there be Tygers.