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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sold) horror stories to magazines such as Cavalier and Adam, while Richard Bachman wrote a series of novels that would not be published until the early 1980s and were then collected as The Bachman Books.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
Blaze will be released on January 22, 2008 in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 22, 2008
Blaze is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 22, 2008
Blaze will be released on January 22, 2008 in Compact Disk
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Blaze will be released on June 12, 2007 in eAudio
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Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...The last time Richard Bachman and Stephen King were thought to be different writers, and King's signature is becoming ever clearer in its story Richard Bachman could only have lived so long, I...
School Library Journal, March 28, 2013
...length King novel (for some reason, it never occurred to me to read the books he published as Richard Bachman, or the short story collections), and then abruptly stopped. I haven’t read a single King book published after 1996, and I’ve never gone...
Guardian.co.uk, March 26, 2013
...s Black House, they would bind the two universes completely … Up next: the final book written while Richard Bachman was still alive – Thinner...
Onion AV Club, March 6, 2013
...only one in a series of compromises that turned the slim science-fiction novel, written under the King pseudonym Richard Bachman, into a dim Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle. Three years later, Schwarzenegger teamed up with Paul Verhoeven for Total Recall,...
Guardian.co.uk, February 1, 2013
...I revisited Getting It On, rewrote it, and submitted it to my paperback publisher under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was published as Rage, sold a few thousand copies and disappeared from view. Or so I thought. In February 1996, a boy named...
Nudge, January 30, 2013
...the culture of violence, he is both rational and candid. The first book he released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, Rage, has been linked to a number of school shootings over the years. As a result, in 1997, King insisted it be taken out of print....
TeleRead, January 29, 2013
...Posted in: ebook, ereaders Tags: AOL, Brian Howard, Guns, Huffington Post, HuffPo, HuffPo comments, James Sturdivant, kindle, Kindle for iPad, Nook, nook simple touch, Stephen King 1 I own a Nook Simple Touch. Maybe it’s because I root for...
Bangor Daily News, January 18, 2013
...The book is a limited-edition 1996 hardcover copy of “The Regulators.” King wrote the book under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman. The book was auctioned Friday to a Cambridge, Mass., attorney, for the high bid of $2,850, said Michael Riggs, the...
Dallas Stars, January 18, 2013
...American Airlines Center on Saturday night. The Stars trimmed their roster to 23 players Friday morning, sending goaltender Richard Bachman and defenseman Jamie Oleksiak to the Texas Stars of the AHL. That means Cristopher Nilstorp will start the...
Dallas Morning News, January 18, 2013
...on Saturday will likely be: Alex Goligoski-Stephane Robidas Jordie Benn-Trevor Daley Brenden Dillon-Philip Larsen The Stars assigned goalie Richard Bachman and defenseman Jamie Oleksiak to the Texas Stars on Friday to get down to the 23-man...
Dallas Morning News, January 18, 2013
...on Saturday will likely be: Alex Goligoski-Stephane Robidas Jordie Benn-Trevor Daley Brenden Dillon-Philip Larsen The Stars assigned goalie Richard Bachman and defenseman Jamie Oleksiak to the Texas Stars on Friday to get down to the 23-man...
SB Nation, January 18, 2013
...force a third rookie into the lineup in Jamie Oleksiak, who was sent back to Texas along with Richard Bachman. Watching Gulutzan deploy these pairings at home when he has last change will tell us much about what he thinks he has here. Goaltending: ...
Roto World, January 18, 2013
...@ Detroit, vs. Chicago, vs. St. Louis Notes The Stars will play three games in four nights so Richard Bachman should get at least one start in place of Kari Lehtonen. Look for Dallas to give Bachman a little more time in net as they do not want to...
Dallas Morning News, January 18, 2013
...on Saturday will likely be: Alex Goligoski-Stephane Robidas Jordie Benn-Trevor Daley Brenden Dillon-Philip Larsen The Stars assigned goalie Richard Bachman and defenseman Jamie Oleksiak to the Texas Stars on Friday to get down to the 23-man...