-=> Quoting Josh Hill to All <=-
 JH> ALRIGHT!!! I am tired of hearing all of these rumors about why King
 JH> was  Bachman. I wrote him and this is what his sevretary told me!!!
 JH> 
 JH> She said that he did it because he wanted to try a different kind of 
 JH> writing. Not so much horror as just adventure/fiction. Take the
 JH> Running  man and the long walk for instance...both games (or a
 JH> gameshow) also he  wrote under Richard Bachman because one of his books
 JH> Rage (formerly  Getting it On) was published under Stepehn King.
 JH> Finally he named it  rage and under the name of Richard Bachman it got
 JH> published. If you  read The Dark Half you will learn a little about
 JH> what he was going  through. That book is based on his dealings with
 JH> Richard Bachman.  Anyway, he accidentally put the copyright of Thinner
 JH> under his own  name. Some guy noticed it (because how many of us,
 JH> besides me, looks at  the copyrights???) and threatend to tell. King
 JH> took over, told the  public, and killed Bachman off of Lung Cancer in
 JH> 1985. Of course he  wrote a book under the name of Bachman (the
 JH> Regulators which I am  reading) and said it was "...found in the attic
 JH> by Bachman's widow when  she was about to move." This will surely put
 JH> it one the bestseller list  (if it isn't already). THAT is why King was
 JH> Bachman. And if you notice  the Bachman books (with the exception of
 JH> the new one) were all  published in the early 1980's ('82 and '83
 JH> mostly). At that time King  was a very successful writer...
 JH> 
 JH> If anyone has any questions just reply to this message!!!
Yes, that is true. However, read the intro of the old version of The Bachman
Books. There is an intro in there called "Why I was Bachman". It says what
you say and also that his publisher wouldn't allow so many King books, so
thats another reason he wrote under Bachman. 
... "Here, hold this grenade.  I just dropped the pin on the floor."
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