A deep dive into the horror novelist’s archives reveals pedantry, penny-pinching, and a total redraft of Carrie A deep dive into the horror novelist’s archives reveals pedantry, penny-pinching, and a total redraft of Carrie W hen Caroline Bicks first met Stephen King she was worried. As a teenager she had scared herself silly with his books – Carrie and The Shining were the two that crept under her skin and refused to budge – but now she found herself in the odd position of being Stephen E King