{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Looking back it\u2019s striking how period-specific Stephen King books were: Carrie was about the re-debut of fundamentalist...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184328990608/", "html": "<p>Looking back it\u2019s striking how period-specific Stephen King books were: Carrie was about the re-debut of fundamentalist Christianity in the culture AND PSI-enabled \u201cgifted children\u201d (the latter was also Firestarter); The Tommyknockers had a UFO MacGuffin; Cujo, Pet Sematary, and Children of the Corn were about yuppies from the \u201cdangerous\u201d city where you couldn\u2019t assume marriages were forever anymore going to rural small-town America and realizing you couldn\u2019t assume it was safe or wholesome either<br/></p>"}