That book also includes “The Body,” which was turned into the Rob Reiner movie Stand By Me, and it’s funny because it’s pretty easy to imagine the same woman the author encountered also refusing to believe that his work inspired that coming-of-age classic.

Of course, Stephen King did in fact write the novella that The Shawshank Redemption is based on – titled “Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption,” and included in the 1982 collection Different Seasons. But I like uplifting things, like that movie Shawshank Redemption.’ And I said, ‘I wrote that!’ And she said, ‘No you didn’t. She pointed at me, she said, ‘I know who you are! You’re Stephen King! You write all of those horrible things. I was in a supermarket down here in Florida, and I came around the corner and there was a woman coming the other way. Dismissing the idea, King explained that the horror in his books has never really stemmed directly from scenes of violence and blood, and told a story highlighting some people’s inability to see him as anything other than “that guy.” He said, Currently promoting his new novel, Later, Stephen King was recently a guest on the BBC news show HARDtalk, and host Stephen Sackur at one point asked the author if he now feels the need to “push the envelope” in his writing given the availability of horrific material all over the internet.

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