Iconic horror author Stephen King has produced some of the most memorable literary best-sellers of the late 20th and early 21st century yet, with some of his past hits including the likes of Misery, The Stand, The Shining, It, The Dark Tower and many, many others.
As undeniably talented an author as he is, the 78-year-old King will also be the first to admit he was battling serious addiction issues at the peak of his fame, a topic he discusses at detailed length in his gripping memoir, On Writing.
In said book, King went so far to say that his alcohol and substance abuse had grown so serious by the 1980s, he could scarcely remember writing his classic horror novel, Cujo, at all.
Released in 1981, King's Cujo tells the story of a lovable Saint Bernard who soon contracts rabies, turning him into a rampaging killer that traps a mother and young boy in their car.
Despite Cujo's instant popularity among fans of the author's work, King claims to have little memory of actually writing it, thanks in large part to his worsening drinking habits prior to getting sober.
"At the end of my adventures I was drinking a case of sixteen-ounce tallboys a night, and there's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all," King states in On Writing. "I don't say that with pride or shame, only with a vague sense of sorrow and loss."
"I like that book," the Shining author continues. "I wish I could remember enjoying the good parts as I put them down on the page."
Just before his family's heartfelt intervention to confront the writer over his addiction, King mentions the difficult mental place he was in in the midst of his substance abuse.
"At the worst of it I no longer wanted to drink and no longer wanted to be sober, either. I felt evicted from life," King admits. "At the start of the road back I just tried to believe the people who said that things would get better if I gave them time to do so."
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