Richard Bachman

3 weeks ago - Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel Rage. King hid the link between himself and Bachman, until allowing for his identification in 1985. He collected the first four Bachman novels into ...

February 17, 2023 - I was like, god damn you published the most Stephen King story ever as "Not Stephen King" ... I'm halfway through reading The Long Walk right now, specifically at the part where they're sharing watermelons. Thank you for mentally preparing me to expect a shitty ending. I was about to get hopeful for a sec here lol Continue this thread ... His publisher wouldn't let him release more than 1 book a year. That's why. When he "retired" in early 2002 he kept writing afterwards with another name and then his own.

4 days ago - Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written ...

May 29, 2020 - Stephen King is undoubtedly the most successful horror writer of the modern age, but his sheer prolificacy led him to create the Richard Bachman pseudonym in order to produce even more output.

2 weeks ago - At the beginning of Stephen King's ... to the public. So King could publish more, he started writing under another name, Richard Bachman....

The king of horror published seven novels under the named Richard Bachman — the first one came out in 1977 — and he explains why on his website: “I did that because back in the early days of my career there was a feeling in the publishing ...

My name is Debby and I'm new to this group too. Yes, Stephen King wrote under one other name (as far as I know) : Richard Bachman.

Answer (1 of 12): Well, there is Alan Smithee, “whose body of work spans decades and genres and really plumbs the depths of terribleness on a whole other level.” From Wikipedia: Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym ...

May 12, 2022 - But the second reason was more curious, and probably more akin to what J.K. Rowling was thinking when she opted to publish The Cuckoo's Calling as Robert Galbraith. As a post on the horror publishinger Charnel House's website explains it, "King’s ...

July 10, 2024 - "Some friends called and said 'Hey, Dick, there's a guy that looks like you who's writing books in New Hampshire.' Even my sister called and said that." Manuel never revealed King's secret. Richard Bachman wasn't just a pseudonym, he was a ...

October 7, 2025 - A Look At The Novels of Richard Bachman, Stephen King’s Psuedonym Introduction:Why Did Stephen King Become Richard Bachman? His Explanation Nearly half a century after his first book hit the …

Answer (1 of 5): Barbara Answered correctly, but I am pretty sure I heard him mention in an interview once he also kind of wondered if lightning could strike twice. As a writer myself, I can understand this curiosity. The interesting thing is it did not strike twice.

March 31, 2025 - With the proof in hand, Brown called McCauley directly and told him he knew that the rising megastar author was the one behind the Richard Bachman name. "Steve Brown? This is Steve King.

July 10, 2017 - Bachman, King felt, was on the cusp of developing his own following and his own identity, and he had fully intended to continue publishing under the pen name. (King had planned on making Misery a Bachman tome.) But Thinner had been too much of a King book, and there is evidence King himself may been giving himself too much rope with which to hang his alias. One of the characters in Thinner muses that “You were starting to sound like a Stephen King novel for a while there.”

April 12, 2025 - After he became a bestselling author, Stephen King began releasing books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Here's why.

September 17, 2025 - Stephen King wrote some of his most famous books under the pen name Richard Bachman. Here’s how a popular rock band helped inspire the moniker.

September 3, 2023 - Here is a list of Every Book Stephen King Published Under the Richard Bachman Pseudonym. Which are your favourites?

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May 22, 2022 - And I know the other point was to get around publisher's limits. These days, if he wants to write not-horror, he just... writes Billy Summers. He doesn't need a pen name for that. Nor is anyone likely to tell him he can't publish a new thing if he wants. He's Stephen Fucking King now.