Time capsule: a NEVER-published interview from out of the vault—a portrait of the artist as a young horrormeister.

By Dan Warren

August 1, 1979

The student stands outside the classroom waiting for the professor to appear. She fusses with her hair and smooths out her dress. An English major and would-be novelist, she both anticipates and dreads her first one-on-one meeting with the professor, Stephen King.

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