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After 'Salem's Lot, King wrote a long story called The Body; Apt Pupil was written after The Shining, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption after The Dead Zone and The Breathing Method after Firestarter. They all were too short to be published as novels, and too long to be simple short stories. So at first they were put aside. In 1982, after he had inevitably gotten the "horror writer" label with novels as Carrie, The Shining, etc., King felt the need to prove that he also could get over a certain genre. So he proposed his editor a collection of four stories that had nothing to do with telekinetic kids nor haunted hotels. It was a hazardous proposal, but the book was published anyway and it met with outstanding success.
So, Different Seasons is very far from the classical King atmospheres. It is much closer to the mature and thoughtful King of these last years. But his penmanship is recognizable as always, and his visionary and cinematographic style doesn't fail to surprise us. ...