50 years ago a 26 year old rural Maine school teacher wrote a horror novel

titled Carrie. That man Stephen King has gone on to write more than 60 books

since. They've sold between 4 to 500 million copies worldwide and have been

turned into films like The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and many more.

King invited our senior arts correspondent,

Jeffrey Brown, to his main home

to talk about his latest book of short stories

called You Like It Darker, and the Long Arc of his career. It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

In his new collection, Stephen King writes of the Erie, the Unsettling,

the otherworldly raising its head in this one. He calls it, you like it

darker, and he clearly does. Darker means spooky, it means scary, it means let's exercise our unpleasant emotions for a while

because I think that people like the idea of opening the door and saying I want it

darker do you want it darker okay where we're in agreement and now let's go into

the woods together.

Millions of readers have taken that dark walk with King,

but we had our own lighter one with the now 76 year old.

I feel a little bit like if I was a car I'd trade.

You know?

Near his woods in Maine, the state where so many of his tales have been set.

I love Maine. I love the country. I'm not much of a

city kid. I know the people and I think that they are stand-ins for people everywhere.

I want to write about regular people, ordinary people, in the best way that I know how.

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