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Carrie is a 1974 horror novel, the first by American author Stephen King.Set in Chamberlain, Maine, the plot revolves around Carrie White, a friendless, bullied high-school girl from an abusive religious household who discovers she has telekinetic powers.
In the novel, Carrie's full name is Carietta N. White, whereas many film adaptations spell her full name as Carrietta. She is depicted as a "frog among swans"; a white girl who has skin often peppered with pimples on her face, shoulders, and buttocks, blonde hair that at times appear completely without color, and incredibly dark brown eyes that appear to cast shadows beneath them.
While waiting for Carrie to come home from the prom, Margaret decides to "kill the sin". She goes so far as to hide a butcher knife beneath the folds of her dress. Once Carrie arrives home, having telekinetically destroyed the high school and everything else in the town after falling victim to a cruel prank, both are surprised to find out that ...
But Carrie did sell, and it sold big. In the early seventies, the $400,000 he received for the paperback rights must have been an unimaginable fortune at a time when $200 short-story sales were ...
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A set featuring Carrie, The Rage: Carrie 2, and Carrie (the 2002 television film) was released on September 14, 2010, [64] and, as part of MGM's 90th anniversary, the film was included with Misery and The Silence of the Lambs on June 3, 2014. [65]
The Musical, [34] Carrie White the Musical [35] and Carrie's Facts of Life, [36] which was a hybrid of Carrie and the American sitcom The Facts of Life. In 2018, a high school production of the musical is the focus of "Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember" episode of Riverdale. [37] The Riverdale cast album of the musical was produced via ...
Police and witnesses, including the neighbor who called 911, said Ashley did not have any visible injuries other than a small scratch that appeared to have occurred days before the slaying.