Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication,

which brings us to our latest entry, 1985's collection of his alter ego's works, the Bachman Books.

Now, so the whole premise of this podcast is to review, like I said, the listings of

Stephen King's works in the chronological order of publication. So some of you might have been

wondering if that's the case and that's the premise of this podcast, then why haven't I been

reviewing the books that have been coming out under his pseudonym because at this point

in publication he has actually published more than I've actually been reviewing because he has

been publishing this entire time using the alter ego Richard Bachman. The reason that I have

pushed off is because I wanted to wait until the Stephen King publication, which collects the Bachman

books together into a title called the Bachman Books, published now in 1985.

So it's a little bit of a cheat. If I was being a little bit more pure to the idea present

within the thesis of this podcast, then,

then yes, I would have reviewed each work by Stephen King, whether or not it's Stephen

King or Richard Bachman in the chronological order of when he wrote it and when he published

it. So I do apologize for cheating a little bit.

But here we are, one way or another, talking about Richard Bachman.

Now, in order to put Richard Bachman in context here,

I'm just going to straight up read what Wikipedia has to say.

At the beginning of Stephen King's career,

the general view among publishers was that an author

was limited to one book per year, since publishing more would be unacceptable to the public.

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