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Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing is a collection of short stories, essays, speeches, and book excerpts by Stephen King, published in 2000. It was marketed by Book-of-the-Month Club as a companion to King's On Writing. Although its title is derived from a King novella (Secret Window, Secret Garden), it is not otherwise related to the novella or the movie Secret Window starring Johnny Depp.
Secret Windows is a collection of stories and essays written by King that are primarily concerned with writing and the horror 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, and an introduction written by Peter Straub. Secret Windows was published by Book-of-the-Month Club to serve as a companion to On Writing, published in the same year.
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- Introduction, by Peter Straub
- Dave's Rag (very early works by King)
- "The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story"
- Foreword to Night Shift
- "On Becoming a Brand Name"
- "Horror Fiction": From Danse Macabre
- "An Evening at the Billerica (Massachusetts) Library"
- "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" (short story)
- "How It Happened"
- "Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture"
- "Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader"
- "'Ever Et Raw Meat?' and Other Weird Questions"
- A New Introduction to John Fowle's The Collector
- "What Stephen King Does fo Love"
- "Two Past Midnight: A Note on 'Secret Window, Secret Garden'"
- Introduction to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
- "Great Hookers I Have Known"
- "A Night at the Royal Festival Hall": Muriel Gray Interviews Stephen King
- "An Evening with Stephen King"
- "In the Deathroom" (short story)
- Acknowledgments
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Novels:
- Carrie (1974)
- ’Salem's Lot (1975)
- Rage (as Richard Bachman) (1977)
- The Shining (1977)
- The Stand (1978; revised edition, 1990)
- The Dead Zone (1979)
- The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman) (1979)
- Firestarter (1980)
- Cujo (1981)
- Roadwork (as Richard Bachman) (1981)
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982; revised edition, 2003)
- The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) (1982)
- Christine (1983)
- Pet Sematary (1983)
- Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
- The Talisman (1984, written with Peter Straub)
- Thinner (as Richard Bachman) (1984)
- It (1986)
- The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
- Misery (1987)
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
- The Tommyknockers (1988)
- The Dark Half (1989)
- Needful Things (1990)
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
- Gerald's Game (1992)
- Dolores Claiborne (1993)
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- Insomnia (1994)
- Rose Madder (1995)
- The Green Mile (1996)
- Desperation (1996)
- The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) (1996)
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
- Bag of Bones (1998)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
- Dreamcatcher (2001)
- Black House (2001, written with Peter Straub)
- From a Buick 8 (2002)
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
- The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
- The Colorado Kid (2005)
- Cell (2006)
- Lisey's Story (2006)
- Blaze (as Richard Bachman) (2007)
- Duma Key (2008)
Non-fiction:
- Danse Macabre (1981)
- Nightmares in the Sky (1988)
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
- Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (2000)
- Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (2005, written with Stewart O'Nan)
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Short fiction:
- Night Shift (1978, collection)
- Different Seasons (1982, collection)
- Skeleton Crew (1985, collection)
- Dark Visions (with George R. R. Martin and Dan Simmons) (1988, collection)
- "Dolan's Cadillac" (1989, chapbook)
- "My Pretty Pony" (1989)
- Four Past Midnight (1990, collection)
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993, collection)
- "Umney's Last Case" (1995, booklet)
- Six Stories (1997, limited edition collection)
- "The New Lieutenant's Rap" (1999, chapbook)
- Hearts in Atlantis (1999, collection)
- "Riding the Bullet" (2000, ebook)
- Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002, collection)
Audiobooks:
- L.T.'s Theory of Pets
- Blood and Smoke (2000)
- Stationary Bike (2006)
Other:
- The Dark Tower series and comics
- The Bachman Books (novel collection) (1985)
- The Plant (2000)
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