The Science of Stephen King

Huneke, R. J., 198–203

hunger, 127

Hunter, Evan, 25

Hutton, Timothy, 96

hyperesthesia, 144

hyperthyroidism, 65

I

ichthyosis, 65

identity theft, 202

If It Bleeds (King), 210

“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” (Dickinson), 99

Illustrated Man, 10

“The Indian Burying Ground” (Freneau), 57

indigenous people

Wendigo legend, 58–60

indigenous people and land rights, 57

inflation, 78–79

Innocence Project, 206

insomnia, 111

acute, 111

chronic, 111–112

comorbid, 112

maintenance, 112

onset, 112

record, 110

Insomnia (King), 110–117

harbingers of death, 116

history of, 110

inspiration, 110

plot, 117

The Institute (King), 211–219

inspiration, 211

plot, 212

Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), 174

International Business Times, 98

Irving, Washington, 18

Ishango Bone, 6, 7

isolation, 11–12

It (King), 14–15, 67–72, 136

childhood friendships, 67

films, 67

length, 67

plot, 67

trauma, 67

J

Jackson, Michael, 129

Jackson, Shirley, 18

Jacobson, Annie, 215

Jenkins, Deputy Coroner, 122

Jenner, Edward, 52

Jentsch, Ernst, 71

Jerusalem’s Lot, 18–19

appearance in other stories, 19

history, 19

Jessup, Violet, 132

jester, 69

Jesus, 55, 55

Jewett City, Rhode Island, 21

Jingles, Mr., 119

Joker, 69

Jones, Jim, 131

Jonestown Massacre, 130, 132

Joo, Ilana, 192

Journal of Religion & Psychical Research, 104

Journal of Scientific and AppliedPhotography, 112

Journal of Social Psychology, 197

K

Kandel, Eric, 206

Kapa, Ryan, 28

Kelly, Emmett, 68

Kemmler, William, 122

Kennedy, John F., 181

assassination, 187–188

Kepnes, Caroline, 140–141

King, Owen, 129, 205

King, Stephen

addictions, 13, 61, 86, 92

clowns, 72

collaboration, 129

criticism of technology, 199–200

descriptions, 74

evil, 153

friend being hit by train, 12–13

hit by a car, 139, 146, 159–160, 166

inspiration for other authors, 10

intervention, 92

Kennedy assassination memory, 181

life, 3–4

mortality, 159

popularity, key to, 1

pseudonym, 25–26, 94, 129

renaissance of, 135

shock as a child, 12

weight, 61

writing career, 3–4

King, Tabitha (Spruce), 3–4, 92, 159

Kingdom Hospital, 159

Kirlian, Semyon, 112

Kirlian digital aura camera, 113, 115

Klebold, Dylan, 29

Koch, Robert, 22

Kreuger, Freddy, 67

Kruszelnicki, Karl, 106

Kubler-Ross, 172

Kubrick, Stanley, 12

L

Landon, Lisa, 159

Landon, Scott, 162

Lazarus, 55, 55

Leadbetter, Charles Webster, 112

Lemke, Susanna, 63, 66

Lennon, John, 29

Leone, Sergio, 73

Leo X, Pope, 192

leptin, 39

lethal injection, 123

Levenson, Marlene, 214

LIFE, 4

life expectancy, 118

Lincoln, Abraham, 22, 181

ling chi, 121

Lisey’s Story (King), 159–165

inspiration, 159

marriage and grief, 159

plot, 159–160

Little House on the Prairie, 125

Local Interstellar Cloud, 89

The Long Walk (Bachman/King), 29, 218

The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 32, 73, 203

Losers Club, 72

lost in the woods, surviving being, 124–127

Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory, 107

Lovecraft, H.P., 87

Lovell, Maine, 159

LSD, 213

M

MacDonald, J. M., 26

MacDonald Triad, 26

MacDougall, Duncan, 105–107

MacFarland, Trisha, 124, 127–128

Machine, Alexis, 93–94

Macleod, Bonnie, 215–218

macro viruses, 145

Maitland, Terry, 205–207

Maki, Robert, 48

Mallon, Mary (Typhoid Mary), 145–146

Mapp, Sally, 81

Marcel, Jesse, 90

marriage, 159

mass hysteria, 20

mass murder, 27

matrix, 201

Matschinger, H., 84

Maximum Overdrive, 129, 147

McBain, Ed, 25

McDonald’s, 202

McGee, Charlie, 217

McGill University, 206

McKinley, William, 181

Mears, Ben, 19, 24

meat, reducing consumption of, 177

Medical News Today, 37

medium, 217–218

Melendez, Sara, 13–17

Memelink, Andrew, 75–78

memories

changing, 206

long-term, 206

repressed, 160

short-term, 206

menstruation, 5–7

and asthma, 6

calendar, 6, 6, 7

and lunar calendar, 7

and otherness, 6

products, 6–7

vicarious, 5

mental health, 161

reform, 28

mental illness

depiction, 16

stigma, 85

messages, subliminal, 197–198, 201–203

Metallica, 31

methamphetamine, 117

“Methods for Studying Coincidences” (Diaconis and Mosteller), 131

mice, training, 119

Miescher, Friedrich, 207

Miller, Laura, 148

mimes, 69

mindfulness techniques, 57

mirror therapy, 167

Misery (King), 80–85

film, 83

good and evil, 80

pain relief, 82

plot, 80, 82

The Mist (King), 148

MK-Ultra, 212–214

Monell Chemical Senses Center, 38

monsters, 210

Moore, Kate, 87

Moriarity, Erin, 215

Morrison, Dick, 43–44

Morse, Donald R., 104

Mosteller, Frederik, 131

motivational tools, 43–44

Motorola, 155

Mount Ararat, 108, 109

Mr. Mercedes (King), 190, 196–204

app, 201

inspiration, 196

plot, 196–197, 204

subliminal messages, 201

Mueller, Theresa Hoglund, 169–170

Murray, Gilbert, 144

music

as defense to murder, 31

and hostility, 31

and school shooting, 30–31

Musical Ear Syndrome, 92

Myers, Michael, 67

N

Nader, Karim, 206

Nagasaki bombing, 185

Napoleon, 34

NASA, 182

breakthrough propulsion physics program, 182–183

National Alliance on Mental Illness, 163

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 74, 78

National Traffic Safety Board, 151