Another famous author with a large cult following is Stephen King.29 His works have gained a great audience not because of their characters or stories, but because of King himself. ... A marked out in line of dull red light."52 Many other people of the town see it as well, but each interprets it to his own liking, never once suggesting that it may just simply be a meteor.53 With the Age of Reason on the horizon in the late 18th century-early nineteenth century, "the area of the unknown [is] steadily contracting,"54 but "it has always existed, and it will always exist."55 America&#x...

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