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 Description: Secret
Windows is a collection of essays written by Stephen King, released exclusively through the Book of the
Month Club.
Published: Book of the month
club, 2000
- Introduction by Peter Straub
- Dave's Rag
- Jumper
- Rush Call
- The 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
- The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
- How It Happened
- Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture
- Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader
- 'Ever Et Rat 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 Grey Interviews Stephen King
- An Evening with Stephen King
- In the Deathroom (Link to Everything's Eventual)
- Acknowledgment
Jumper
Description: Robert Steppes
had escaped after being committed as a serial jumper, and was threatening to jump from the 15th floor
of the Chrysler Building. Jeff Davis decides to use strange methods to stop him from jumping.
Written for Dave's rag in the Winter of 1959-1960 as a 3 part serial.
Characters:
| Castle, Dr |
Robert Steppes called Jeff Davis Dr Castle |
| Davis, Jeff |
A police counselor in New York City that tries to talk down the jumping Robert Steppes |
| Steppes, Robert |
A compulsive jumper he had tried to jump off a building six times. He had been committed but had
escaped and Jeff Davis was trying to talk him down from the 15th story of the Chrysler building. |
Rush Call
Description: Dr Thorpe climbs
into a car on Christmas Eve and operates on a young boy trapped in the car. He saves the boys life, removing
his appendix in the process, and discovers the true meaning of Christmas in the process.
Characters:
| Simmons, Carl |
His wife was a patient of Dr Thorpe. Father of Carol Simmons. |
| Simmons, Carol |
Daughter of Carl Simmons. She was marrying a man her mother thought was a fortune hunter and tramp. |
| Simmons, Mrs |
43 year old woman who was a patient of Dr Thorpe in room 472. She was in hospital with a broken leg
sustained in a fall from a ladder. Wife of Carl. |
| Spickerman, Dr |
Dr Spickerman claimed Dr Thorpe was one of the best doctors in his day, but not now. |
| Thorpe, Dr |
A Doctor who was old and nearing the end of his career at the hospital. He volunteered to take out
the appendix of a boy trapped in a car on Christmas Eve |
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