After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Not since The Stand has King crafted a story of such astonishing range-and never before has he contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how they find their courage. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher. Before long, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world. His incoherent ravings prove to be disturbingly prescient. This year, a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something about lights in the sky. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing.
Thankfully, he cleaned up his act and is still around delighting fans with new stories today.Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. While King did turn out other classics in the 1980s while drinking, there was clearly a limit to how much he could take mentally. Tommyknockers was written near rock bottom of King's battle with alcoholism, and Dreamcatcher suffered similarly for being written while under the influence. So, King ended up writing the whole book longhand, and more consequentially, while doped up heavily on Oxycontin for the pain. King was in so much pain that he couldn't even bear to sit in front of a computer, as his back hated the position. King went through a long physical recovery process after the injuries he suffered, and for a time, wasn't even sure he would be able to keep writing. As to why it's bad, King puts the blame for that on it being the first book he wrote after the 1999 accident in which a distracted driver plowed over him with a van, nearly killing him.
King says about the book "I don’t like Dreamcatcher very much," which is a pretty straightforward indictment. When asked about books he thinks he botched, King brings up both the aforementioned Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher. During a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Stephen King went into detail about his feelings on Dreamcatcher and what happened with it.
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