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Stephen King and Frank Darabont scare shoppers trapped in the black market in The Mist
Stephen King, can you talk about the origins of the story and how it still seems so timely in 2007?
King: A friend of mine, Kirby McCauley, was putting together an anthology called Dark Forces, and he wanted all these original stories from people who wrote in the field, in the genre. I said, "You know, Kirby, I don't think I can do that, because I'm blocked. I'm not writing anything." And I hadn't. I had finished like three books. There was Carrie, there was Salem's Lot, there was Night Shift, and I was kind of stuck, really.
I happened to be in the local market one time and a lot of people were shopping ... little town market, and I looked at the front windows and I thought, "You know, if something bad happened those windows would all blow in," because that's the way I think. It's not necessarily a good thing, but it's been a profitable thing over the years. And I thought about, mulled it over, and this story came out of it.
カービー･マッコーリーから、アンソロジーDark Forcesのために小説を頼まれたけど、そのときは不振でとても書けなかった。
あるとき、小さなスーパーマーケットに行ったときに、店のフロントガラスを見ながら、「もし何かひどいことが起こったら、このガラスがすべて割れて、店の中に飛び込んでくるな」と考えた。そんな風に考えるのが自分の癖で、こんな考え方は自分でもそんなにいいことだとは思わないけど、でも長い間、有益なものでもあった。そしてそれについて考えて考え続けて、そこから「霧」が出来上がったと。
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