How Stephen King?s Childhood Inspired Stand by Me

Watch ad-free and unlock content with amc premiereYou are currently signed in with your TV Provider.Sign in to watch free episodes or with AMC Premiere.Posted by 11 years ago Author Stephen King was born in September, 1947 in Portland, Maine. In Durham, for the fifth and sixth grade, King attended a one-room schoolhouse with four other children — the kids who would inspire the characters in Stand by Me. “There’s a lot of stuff in ‘The Body’ that’s just simply history that’s been tarted up a little bit,” said King. “For 10 years, my family lived a virtual barter existence, practically never seeing any hard cash,” King recalled. And in that sense, I was a hell of a lot less deprived than countless children of middle-class or wealthy families whose parents have time for everything but their kids.” As a young child, King witnessed a horrifying accident. jumped-up astrology,” he said.Instead, King believes that what changed him was the discovery of a the bleak and creeping terror of ‘The Color Out of Space.'” “I was prey to a lot of conflicting emotions as a child,” said King. death intrigued me.” Like Stand by Me‘s ‘Gordie,’ King’s literary career got off seven-years-old,” King said. Stephen King wrote the story that was the basis for Stand by Me quite early in his career, although it wasn’t published until eight years later, in the collection Different Seasons.