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 that novella or the film adaptation, Secret Window.
The texts in the collection 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, a never-before-published short story by King, titled "In the Deathroom," and an introduction written by Peter Straub.
Contents
Title Originally published in Original publication date Notes Introduction by Peter Straub Previously unreleased Previously unreleased Introduction "Jumper" Dave's Rag 1959–1960 Short story "Rush Call" Dave's Rag 1960 Short story The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story Writer's Digest 1973 Essay Foreword to Night Shift Night Shift 1978 Foreword On Becoming a Brand Name Adelina 1980 Horror Fiction Danse Macabre 1981 Chapter An Evening at the Billerica (Massachusetts) Library 1983 Speech transcript The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1984 Novella How 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 Essay A new introduction to John Fowles' The Collector The Collector 1989 Introduction What Stephen King does for Love Seventeen 1990 Essay Two Past Midnight: A note on Secret Window, Secret Garden Four Past Midnight 1990 Introduction to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door The Girl Next Door 1995 Introduction Great Hookers I Have Known Essay A Night at the Royal Festival Hall: Muriel Gray interviews Stephen King 1998 Interview An Evening with Stephen King 1999 "In the Deathroom" Blood and Smoke 1999 Short story
References
External links Secret Windows at StephenKing.com