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Thinner (marketed as Stephen King's Thinner) is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Michael McDowell and Holland. The film is based on Stephen King's 1984 novel of the same name (which he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) and stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna.
Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. [2] The story centers on morbidly obese lawyer Billy Halleck, who, driving carelessly, kills an old Romani woman while she is crossing the street. He escapes legal punishment due to his connections, but the woman's 106 ...
2000: The music video for the song "Spit it Out", recorded and released by American heavy metal band Slipknot, pays homage to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of the King novel The Shining. 2002: Formation of the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain who took the name from the Kingdom of Delain from the King novel The Eyes of the Dragon .
Thinner was the last novel published under the Bachman alias before King’s alter-ego died of “cancer of the pseudonym” in 1985. It’s a simple morality tale about a man cursed to lose ...
A Literary Guild member praised Thinner as "what Stephen King would write like if Stephen King could really write." [ 22 ] Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym in 1985 by Steve Brown, a Washington, D.C. bookstore clerk who noticed stylistic similarities between King and Bachman and located publisher's records at the Library of Congress that ...
Richard Bachman's author photo actually features Richard Manuel, a builder and friend of Stephen King's literary agent, Kirby McCauley. [1] The photo is credited to Bachman's wife, Claudia Inez Bachman. Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel ...
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