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Richard Bachman

During the years 1966-1973, Stephen King was actually two men. Stephen King wrote (and sold) horror stories to magazines such as Cavalier and Adam, while Richard Bachman wrote a series of novels that would not be published until the early 1980s and were then collected as The Bachman Books. Bachman died of pseudonym cancer in 1985, shortly after another of his novels, Thinner, was attributed to Stephen King; but a sixth Bachman novel, The Regulators, surfaced in 1995 and was published simultaneously with Stephen King's Desperation, to which it bore a weird resemblance. Blaze -- both brutal and sensitive -- was the last novel written during Bachman's early period. It is... Read full bio

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Chapter 1 from Blaze
Jun 20, 2009
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Foreward from Blaze
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Times Online, November 15, 2009
...five months after publication and having issued lengthy denials to Newsweek and The Washington Post, he owned up Richard Bachman sold 28,000 copies of his first novel, Thinner. But when it was suspected that the author was Stephen King, sales soared....
Buffalo News, September 9, 2009
...labyrinth to be eaten by the Minotaur. It?s a teen version of the sci-finovel ?Running Man? by Richard Bachman (Stephen King), which was made into a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Our heroes Katniss and Peeta?who broke the rules by saving...
Suite101.com, June 30, 2009
...and to see if his writing would sell without his own famous name attached, he took the name Richard Bachman. A Pen Name is Used For Collaborations and Multi-Author Series When members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collaborated in...
Suite101.com, June 29, 2009
...and to see if his writing would sell without his own famous name attached, he took the name Richard Bachman. Collaborations and Multi-Author Series When members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collaborated in a sting operation to...
The Onion AV Club, June 19, 2009
...of them can?t possibly make it out alive. The Long Walk was originally published under King?s Richard Bachman pseudonym, and while it?s the strongest of the mostly supernatural-free ?Bachman books,? the others are worth checking out too,...
Blogcritics.org, April 12, 2009
...An early 'trunk novel' that's been pruned of its young author's overly sentimental leanings, Richard Bachman's Blaze was published 35 years after its original inception in the early seventies. Now that it's showing up on the remainder tables alongside...
Examiner.com, March 31, 2009
...romance writer Nora Roberts going under the name J.D Robb and horror writer Stephen King writing under Richard Bachman. Of course not everyone uses pen names, and many writers just publish under their regular names without any questions asked. It is not...
News-Times, March 22, 2009
...Selections that were not widely enjoyed by club members include 'The Long Walk,' by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. Dowd characterized it as a futuristic, sci-fi, apocalyptic tale about people forced to walk without stopping, not even to eat, or...
Investors Business Daily, February 7, 2009
...story every year throughout the 1970s and '80s. He even wrote a few books under his pen name, Richard Bachman. In his stellar career, King has written more than 40 books and 200 short stories, many of which have been made into major motion pictures or TV...
Helium, December 29, 2008
...pen name or pseudonym including the best-selling author Steven King who wrote seven novels under the pen name Richard Bachman and Joanne Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter Books under the name J.K.Rowling. There are several good reasons and several bad...
South Bend Tribune, December 6, 2008
...? literally. After writing an adaptation of Stephen King?s ?Rage? ? which was published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman ? Susco traveled to Bangor, Maine, in an attempt to sell the author on the idea. He approached King?s home and...
Minor League Hockey News - MLN - The Raw Feed, October 20, 2009
...Friday and Saturday.  Idaho Steelheads * Idaho went 3-0-0 at home to start the season.  * Richard Bachman stopped 26 of 28 shots against Stockton on Oct. 18 to earn his first career win in his first professional start.  * Steelheads face Utah on the...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine, September 21, 2009
...adapted for film, television, and other media. King has written a number of books using the pen name Richard Bachman, and one short story, 'The Fifth Quarter', as John Swithen." The first book of King's I read was 'Salem's Lot . I picked it up because it...
Welltun Cares Presents, September 10, 2009
...awful Super Gamera), contemplating the novels, playing videogames, eating maybe, sleeping, talking politics (and vomiting right after), reading Richard Bachman’s Blaze (eh), correcting spelling/grammar in one of the reviews at the other site, listening...
A Novel Challenge, August 11, 2009
...]the object of this perpetual challenge is to read EVERY SINGLE book by Stephen King or his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. A complete list can be found here . If you have trouble finding the limited edition books, that's okay. ALSO: If you don't want to,...
A Novel Challenge, August 1, 2009
...]the object of this perpetual challenge is to read EVERY SINGLE book by Stephen King or his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. A complete list can be found here . If you have trouble finding the limited edition books, that's okay. ALSO: If you don't want to,...
Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day, May 28, 2009
...nothing new. Way back when before Stephen King's writing career had taken off he also wrote as Richard Bachman. One of the books he wrote back then (1972-3 per the introduction) was Blaze which mashes together Of Mice and Men and Ransom of Red Chief into...
The Everyman Blog, April 27, 2009
...on the pile, one of the many books I received from my wife for Christmas, was Blaze by Richard Bachman , the former pen name of Stephen King .  It seems that King wrote Blaze back in the early seventies under the Bachman pen name, then basically stuck...
Blogcritics, April 12, 2009
...REVIEW Book Review: Blaze by Richard Bachman Written by Bill Sherman Published April 12, 2009 See also: » Book Review: Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving In The Emerald City » Manga Review: The...
Mark Leslie's Blog, January 5, 2009
...The Jigsaw Man - Gord Rollo Wake - Robert J. Sawyer I was tempted to add Blaze by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) , Identity Theft & Other Stories (Robert J. Sawyer) and The Book of the Dead (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) to this list, but rather than...
book tards unite, December 30, 2008
...and Other Odd Aquaintances by Peter S. Beagle 62. Different Seasons by Stephen King 63. The Regulators by Richard Bachman 64. To Raise a Jewish Child by Hayim Halevy Donin* 65. The Swords Trilogy by Michael Moorcock 66. Death Comes in Yellow by Felicja...
The Undead Blogger Reviews, December 25, 2008
...breakfast down, and the squirrel I spotted in Algerbra II.” -Charles Decker Rage was released in 1977 by Richard Bachman (the now well known pen name used by Stephen King ). It was the first in a series of titles released by Stephen King  under the...
reynaldo, December 6, 2008
...Novel! Click Here To Buy Blaze A Novel at Amazon.com Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie . Bachman died in 1985 (”cancer of...