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Few writers have unsettled the collective nerves of readers more than Stephen King. The author of classics like 1974’s
It, and dozens of others has become the standard-bearer for horror fiction. Take a look at 11 of his creepiest passages . if you dare.
1. Survivor Type //
In “Survivor Type,” from
Skeleton Crew, a surgeon stranded and hungry after a plane crash makes a lifesaving decision on dinner in a passage that will likely cost you your appetite:
“I’ve amputated my left foot and have bandaged it with my pants. Strange. All through the operation I was drooling. Drooooling. Just like when I saw the gull. Drooling helplessly. But I made myself wait until after dark. I just counted backward from one hundred … twenty or thirty times! Ha! Ha!
Middletown
Middletown, a new play by Dan Clancy, is currently streaming through April 4.
The streaming production stars Didi Conn (
Grease), Sandy Duncan (
T.J. Hooker), and Don Most (
Happy Days).
Middletown has been touring the country since 2019, with Seth Greenleaf serving as director. The play is presented as a reading, with the actors standing at four podiums with scripts.
Middletown tells the story of two couples, Peg and Tom, and Dotty and Don, as they endure the roller coaster of life together in this exhilarating and universal depiction of love, life, and friendship.
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Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 20, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health.
On this date:
In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
In 1933, Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition.
In 1942, Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare became the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace of World War II by shooting down five Japanese bombers while defending the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the South Pacific.
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.
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