King's novel Carrie, about an outcast teen with telekinetic powers, was picked up by Doubleday & Co., and kicked off a prolific decade that established King as a bestselling author. King continued to generate a side income with short stories, and expanded into novels while he worked days as an English teacher at a local public school. He also began his professional writing career in 1966 with his first short story sale to Startling Mysteries magazine. While working towards earning his degree in English at the University of Maine, King wrote for the college newspaper and appeared onstage with the school's dramatic society. Maybe the titular snakes are also some malevolent influence.King was born in Portland, ME, and spent a peripatetic youth living with different family members in Indiana, Connecticut, and eventually back in Maine, where he graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. "Black House" serves as a sequel to "The Talisman," while "Doctor Sleep" continued the saga of Danny Torrance 36 years after King first wrote "The Shining." If the two stories do have a through-line that goes beyond themes of children in peril, I wonder if "Rattlesnakes" will touch upon the supernatural element at play in "Cujo." In the novel, the rabid dog might actually be possessed by serial killer Frank Dodd. This isn't the first time King has written a sequel to one of his classics years after the fact. It's only reasonable, then, that kids would sometimes end up the victims, too. Often, kids are the heroes of King's stories who battle evil and still come out standing. The author has often allowed children to end up in perilous situations in his works, in part to lend voice to the ever-present fears of parents, and in part, because he - more than most writers - imagines children as actual people. "Rattlesnakes" sounds just as bleak, although, as with every King story, it likely won't be bleak without a purpose.
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