Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 1996
Journal
Narrative
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
55
Last Page
73
Abstract
This article considers Stephen King's The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, and The Dark Half alongside Lacan's theories of the terror of the signifier. I argue that writing as a (phallic) act is a means of dis-empowerment and homophobic terrorizing in King's protagonists, all of whom have a specially vexed relationship to language and expression.
