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Stephen King’s ‘Firestarter’: A look back at this classic book’s legacy
Stephen King's 'Firestarter': A look back at this classic book's legacy,Stephen King has always been fascinated by people with strange and often dangerous mental gifts. Of the first 10 novels the legendary author published after his 1974 debut, four of them feature a protagonist with some kind of mental superpower, whether it's telekinesis in Carrie, the ability to see ghosts in The Shining, or clairvoyance in The Dead Zone.

Stephen King’s ‘Firestarter’: A look back at this classic book’s legacy

Stephen King has always been fascinated by people with strange and often dangerous mental gifts. Of the first 10 novels the legendary author published after his 1974 debut, four of them feature a protagonist with some kind of mental superpower, whether it’s telekinesis in Carrie, the ability to see ghosts in The Shining, or clairvoyance in The Dead Zone.