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Originally Posted by Timboli
Stephen King has never really captured my interest, in part because my interest in Horror based stories is minimal. I do have a few of his works, especially in The Dark Tower series, but with the few bits I have read, his style never grabbed me enough, never sold itself enough...
Maybe I was spoiled by Michael Moorcock and his fiction...
I am also a huge Robert E. Howard fan.
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Not sure why liking Michael Moorcock would turn you off of Stephen King? I enjoy all three authors you mentioned. Maybe I misunderstood something.
If you don't like horror, but want to give Stephen King a try, you might like Eyes of the Dragon, a fairy tale he wrote for his daughter. Also The Talisman and Black House, fantasy stories we co-wrote with Peter Straub. They keep promising a third book.
Then there's Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas. Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method are horrific, but The Body and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption are not (and both were made into terrific movies: Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption).
And of course, there's The Stand, a horror story that becomes an epic fantasy. King said he wanted to write something like Lord of the Rings, but set it in modern America.