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Stephen king elevation book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Which brings me back to Elevation , which, for all effective purposes, is a weirdly modernized re-telling of Thinner. In Elevation, King tells the story of a fat guy who wakes up one day and realizes he’s losing weight at a dramatic rate, slowly killing the poor bastard. I won’t tell you how the story ends, but I’ll say this: It ain’t kittens and rainbows. It’s the story of a fat guy who gets cursed by a gypsy and immediately starts losing weight at a dramatic rate, slowly killing the poor bastard. ![]() So King invented Bachman to help flood the world with horror.Īrguably the most famous of the Bachman novels, and the one that finally outed Bachman’s true person, was a neat little trick of grim horror called Thinner. Publishers of the long-ago didn’t put out two books by the same author in a 12-month time frame. He did this not because Bachman’s content was wildly different than King’s, but more so because King’s prolificity was such that he couldn’t be contained to a single novel per year. ![]() If you know anything about Stephen King, you’ll know that he used to enjoy writing under the thinly-veiled pseudonym of Richard Bachman. However, the story itself came as an even bigger surprise than the mini-sized book and low page count. Don’t let the novel-sized $20 price point fool you. It clocks in at a featherweight count of 160 pages, and is what we fiction writers would refer to as a “novella” or, as it’s known in layman terms, a “short novel.” But let’s be clear, this is a story–not a novel. ![]() Stephen King’s most recent book is a slim little number called Elevation. ![]()
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