Firestarter
by Stephen King · first published 1980
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Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award.
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…wasn't great. As an alternative, my doctor signed me up for the clinical trials for the drug now known as Harvoni. I figured that it's a moonshot and didn't pay it any mind. (Having read Stephen King's Firestarter didn't help either.) I also moved to a different city for a job. Months later the drug company called and told me I qualified. The drug trial would have been free and would have cured my hep C, but alas…
on “Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined” ↗I read Stephen King's Firestarter at an early age, so that, and other things influenced by MKULTRA, factors in to why I think LSD is scary. The other issue I have is that when people say that LSD can harm people with a predisposition…
on “LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison” ↗For some reason I read this as "garbage disposals are scary" and then I got a flashback to reading a Stephen King novel as a child (iirc it was Firestarter) where a character commits suicide by sticking their arm into their kitchen garbage disposal, it horrified me at the time and appears to have remained deeply embedded in my personal neural network...
on “Garbage Collectors Are Scary” ↗