Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing is a collection of short stories, essays, speeches, and book excerpts by Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

, published in 2000

2000 in literature

The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...

. It was marketed by Book-of-the-Month Club as a companion to King's On Writing

On Writing

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir and writing guide book by Stephen King, published in 2000. It is a book about the prolific author's experiences as a writer. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly listed On Writing 21st on their list of The New Classics: Books - The 100 best reads from 1983 to...

. Although its title is derived from a King novella (Secret Window, Secret Garden

Secret Window, Secret Garden

Secret Window, Secret Garden is one of four novellas published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990. It is similar to King's earlier novel The Dark Half...

), it is not otherwise related to that novella or the film adaptation, Secret Window

Secret Window

Secret Window is a 2004 psychological horror film starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. It was written and directed by David Koepp, based on the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, featuring a musical score by Philip Glass and Geoff Zanelli. The story appeared in King's...

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Secret Windows is a collection of stories and essays written by King that are primarily concerned with writing and the horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 genre. Several of the entries have been published elsewhere, including introductions King had written for other authors' novels, as well as introductions and essays from King's previous books. This volume also includes several short works that had not been previously published elsewhere, including lectures given by King, an interview with King conducted by Muriel Gray

Muriel Gray

Muriel Gray is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.-Personal life:Gray is of partly Jewish ancestry...

, a never-before-published short story by King, titled "In the Deathroom," and an introduction written by Peter Straub

Peter Straub

Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...

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Contents

Title	Originally published in
Introduction by Peter Straub	Previously unreleased
Dave's Rag Jumper Rush call	Dave's Rag (1959–1960)
The horror market writer and the ten bears: A true story	Writer's Digest (1973)
Foreword to Night Shift Night Shift A night shift is either a group of workers who work during the night, or the period in which they work. See shift work.Night Shift may also refer to:* Night Shift , a fictional team of supervillains in the Marvel Universe...	Night Shift Night Shift A night shift is either a group of workers who work during the night, or the period in which they work. See shift work.Night Shift may also refer to:* Night Shift , a fictional team of supervillains in the Marvel Universe...  (1978)
On becoming a brand name	Adelina magazine (1980)
Horror fiction	Danse Macabre Danse Macabre Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre , Danza de la Muerte , Dansa de la Mort , Danza Macabra , Dança da Morte , Totentanz , Dodendans , is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's...  (1981)
An evening at the Billerica (Massachusetts) library	1983
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet is a novella by Stephen King first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew...	Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine (1984)
How It It (novel) It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous inter-dimensional predatory life-form that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It"...  happened	Book-of-the-month-club news (1986)
Banned books and other concerns: The Virginia Beach lecture	Virginia Beach Public Library (1986)
Turning the thumbscrew on the reader	Book-of-the-month-club news (1987)
"Ever et raw meat?" and other weird questions	The New York Times book review (1987)
A new introduction to John Fowles's The Collector The Collector The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. It was made into a movie in 1965.- Plot summary :The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall, and collects butterflies in his spare time...	The Collector The Collector The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. It was made into a movie in 1965.- Plot summary :The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall, and collects butterflies in his spare time...  (1989)
What Stephen King does for love	Seventeen Seventeen (magazine) Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...  (1990)
Two past midnight: A note on Secret Window, Secret Garden Secret Window, Secret Garden Secret Window, Secret Garden is one of four novellas published in the Stephen King book Four Past Midnight in 1990. It is similar to King's earlier novel The Dark Half...	Four Past Midnight Four Past Midnight Four Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King, published in 1990. The four stories are "The Langoliers"; "Secret Window, Secret Garden"; "The Library Policeman"; and "The Sun Dog".- The Langoliers :...  (1990)
Introduction to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door The Girl Next Door (novel) The Girl Next Door was written by author Jack Ketchum in 1989. It is loosely based on the true story of the murder of Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965.-Synopsis:...	The Girl Next Door The Girl Next Door (novel) The Girl Next Door was written by author Jack Ketchum in 1989. It is loosely based on the true story of the murder of Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965.-Synopsis:...  (1995)
Great hookers I have known
A night at the Royal Festival Hall: Muriel Gray interviews Stephen King	1998
An evening with Stephen King	1999
In the Deathroom In the Deathroom In the Deathroom is a short story by Stephen King. Originally, it appeared in the 1999 audiobook Blood and Smoke. In 2000, it was first published in written form in Secret Windows...	Blood and Smoke Blood and Smoke Blood and Smoke is an audio book where Stephen King reads three of his own short stories. At the time, he said that the two short stories which had not been published wouldn't be, however, all three were published in the Everything's Eventual collection.All the three stories in Blood and Smoke are... (1999)