INTERVIEW | Caroline Bicks: The meaning behind the monsters in the Stephen King archive

Her new book sheds new light on his iconic early novels

Apr 14, 2026

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For a year between 2022 and 2023, University of Maine English professor Caroline Bicks spent hundreds of hours behind the iconic wrought-iron gates of the house at 47 West Broadway in Bangor – the first person invited to access Stephen King’s personal archives since it was moved in 2018 from UMaine’s Fogler Library to King’s former home in Bangor.

Bicks,…

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