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 --
Ballad of the flexible bullet --
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 Fowles's The collector --
What Stephen King does for 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 --