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Tabitha King
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Oct 29, 2026
BrettHOST
Thank you.
BrettHOST
By Stephen King that Tabitha King fished out of the bin and essentially gave Stephen his whole career.
BrettHOST
So thank you, Tabby, as he thanks in the book and also all Stephen King fans should thank.
BrettHOST
Twelve classmates survive.
GrahamHOST
In Stephen King world, he would later write the script for the movie Thinner.
GrahamHOST
And when he died in 1999, his partially completed novel Candles Burning was completed by Tabitha King.
GrahamHOST
A side note, cinematographer Ernest Dickinson would also go on to be a horror director of note, including work on one of the Tales from the Crypt movies and a number of classic Walking Dead episodes.
GrahamHOST
As for the cast, most are not that well known, and that makes their establishing of their characters in this 20-minute show all the more impressive.
Gilbert CruzGUEST
He throws out the first 20 pages or so of the manuscript.
Gilbert CruzGUEST
His wife, Tabitha King, who's also an author, as are now several of his children, fishes that group of 20 pages out.
Gilbert CruzGUEST
dusts the cigarette ashes off of it and says, there's something here.
Gilbert CruzGUEST
You really should keep going.
MartyHOST
No.
ChrisHOST
And it reportedly came from Stephen King's wife, Tabitha King.
ChrisHOST
According to Mick Garris, she wrote a treatment for a potential follow-up involving a women's basketball team.
MartyHOST
Uh-uh.
Mariana ColínHOST
Let me know.
Mariana ColínHOST
So Tabitha King rescues the first chapter of Carrie out of the trash and tells him to keep writing it, tells him it's really good.
Mariana ColínHOST
So he does, and Carrie ends up being the first novel Stephen King ever publishes.
Mariana ColínHOST
It's an immediate hit.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
Insights we hope you remember to reach for when you feel the sting of rejection.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
Stephen King's story is a true champion story in the form of Tabitha King, who encouraged her husband to turn down extra paid work at the high school in order to preserve his writing time.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
Writing time that, up until that point, hadn't made them or their growing family a dime.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
When King threw Carrie in the trash, Tabitha fished it out, a reminder that courage can be outsourced.
Jakub FlaszHOST
This is not a family where you get to go and do, I don't know, professional football or something like that.
Jakub FlaszHOST
And Tabitha King, she's also a published novelist, right? So...
Jakub FlaszHOST
So in 1974, they check into the Stanley Hotel in Colorado and they have an experience in there.
Jakub FlaszHOST
They feel like, oh, maybe this is haunted or whatever.
John ArminioHOST
And I think especially with the origin story of this book, that Stephen King was writing these short stories to be published in men's magazines, and that's how he was keeping his family afloat.
John ArminioHOST
And when Tabitha King was working, I think, You know, their son, Joe Hill, has described her as having to deal with handsy male customers.
John ArminioHOST
And so I think considering the audience Stephen King was making his money from at the time, for him to write a horror novel whose inciting incident involves a woman having her first period, which is something that continues to make men very uncomfortable.
John ArminioHOST
I think it's almost like this collision of De Palma's instinct for voyeurism with this innate fear that mainstream society has of menstruation, and then this very horrific public humiliation.
55 MINS LATER
Stephen SimpsonHOST
about nobody i must admit he's gonna keep that quiet
John ArminioHOST
Yeah, yeah, he didn't reveal their names.
John ArminioHOST
And I think with the encouragement of Tabitha King, this book really gets at the cruelty of high school girls.
John ArminioHOST
And not to say that high school boys aren't cruel, but I think the cruelty of high school girls is very specific.
Justin LoreHOST
And be like, you need to finish this.
Justin LoreHOST
That is a, from his own lips, if it weren't for Tabitha King, that story would have never gotten published.
Liam O'DonnellHOST
And I'm not saying he's right about that.
Liam O'DonnellHOST
Like, clearly the book was important to a lot of people.
18 MINS LATER
Justin LoreHOST
And Mike Hanlon tells them like, look, this shit's popping off again.
Justin LoreHOST
And they have an actual room.
Justin LoreHOST
Like they have their fancy room where like Stephen King and Tabitha King would eat.
Justin LoreHOST
They have that as the Stephen King room.
SlavaHOST
He shelved this.
SlavaHOST
And for the second time in his life, his wife, and I made this quip before, listen to your wife if she's as smart as Tabitha, told him, "Get it published." She told him to finish Carrie, and she helped him with the female POV there, and that, it was the kickoff of his career, and that's why we have Stephen King, because of Tabitha.
SlavaHOST
And here again, she comes and says, "Hey, this is a good book- It deals with dark matter, but it's a good damn book.
SlavaHOST
Publish it.
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