On the Nature of Darkness, or 'This Is How I Get Rid of My Nightmares'

In the modern world, there is an expert who knows best how terrifying stories are born. That’s the “King of Horror” Stephen King, who has written 65 novels and hundreds of novellas and short stories in the horror and mystery genres over the course of half a century.

Where does the Darkness live? Where something Terrible happens? Among us—in the guise of monsters and vampires? What if, many times darker than them, is the soul of a God-fearing inhabitant of the American backwoods?

King became a star of the genre after his first books, and these questions were asked of him throughout his long writing career. This book brings together his reflections on the nature of Darkness—from the moment when, back then, while he was still young, he first managed to pluck at the hidden strings of the reader’s soul, and up to today, when he writes, seasoned by experience.

For the first time, readers are presented with Stephen King’s complex inner world—the world of the “King of Horror”—tightly interwoven with key moments from his works, where the invisible, incomprehensible, and horrifying Something dwells…