This isn't right, though. Stephen King is preoccupied with monsters, dangers, tragedies and traumas – supernatural and not. And that's true no matter what he's writing. Like a lot of horror creators, he can never stop thinking about the worst things that could happen in a given moment. The Body is not just about teenagers who go searching for a dead kid; it's about four friends who cannot know that only one of them will live to middle age. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is about hope, certainly, but it is also about the effects of decades of brutal captivity, and about crushing corruption and institutional violence that cannot be cured, only outlasted or escaped. If there's a useful rough division of King's stories, it's between the ones that describe a world of horrors on one hand, and the ones that consider what to do about being in a world of horrors on the other. This isn't a clean distinction, certainly, nor does it map cleanly to downbeat versus upbeat — sometimes the straight-up horrors are told with dark humor, as in "Survivor Type," a gnarly little short story about a doctor who gets marooned on a desert island and starts eating himself. A King story usually has an element of warning. This could happen to you, says Stephen King, as the doctor eats his foot, or as a finger comes up out of a bathroom drain, or as a haunted car or a pandemic or a vampire or a rabid dog appears. This could happen to you. , The Life of Chuck is a 2024 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King, which was published in his 2020 compilation book If It Bleeds., The Life of Chuck: Directed by Mike Flanagan. With Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak, Cody Flanagan. A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz..