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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947 and sold his first professional short story in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. As a high school English teacher he spent his evenings and weekends writing short stories and working on novels. After…

Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry…