Blood, telekinetic powers and bullying: Carrie, 50 years of the book that saved Stephen King

It was going to be one more of the stories that he sent to the erotic magazine Cavallier to make a few dollars and deal with teenage girls in high school. But shortly after he started, Stephen King was not convinced. “I lost two weeks working a short novel that I didn’t like and couldn’t sell. Solution: throw it in the trash,” he told himself in his book As I write (Debelsillo, 2000). But days later that story came back to life, and it was thank…