Secret Windows

Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing is a collection of short stories, essays, speeches, and book excerpts by Stephen King, published in 2000. It was marketed by Book-of-the-Month Club as a companion to King's On Writing. Although its title is derived from a King novella (Secret Window, Secret Garden), it is not otherwise related to that novella or the film adaptation, Secret Window.^[1]

Secret Windows

Author	Stephen King
Language	English
Subject	Writing
Publisher	BOMC
Publication date	October 2000
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	433
ISBN	0-16-500643-9
Preceded by	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Followed by	Faithful (book)

The texts in the collection are primarily concerned with writing and the horror genre. Several of the entries have been published elsewhere, including introductions King had written for other authors' novels, as well as introductions and essays from King's previous books.^[1] This volume also includes several short works that had not been previously published elsewhere, including lectures given by King, an interview with King conducted by Muriel Gray, a never-before-published short story by King, titled "In the Deathroom," and an introduction written by Peter Straub.

Contents

Title	Originally published in
Introduction by Peter Straub	Previously unreleased
Dave's Rag "Jumper" "Rush Call"	Dave's Rag (1959–1960)
The horror market writer and the ten bears: A true story	Writer's Digest (1973)
Foreword to Night Shift	Night Shift (1978)
On becoming a brand name	Adelina magazine (1980)
Horror fiction	Danse Macabre (1981)
An evening at the Billerica (Massachusetts) library	1983
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet	Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine (1984)
How It happened	Book-of-the-month-club news (1986)
Banned books and other concerns: The Virginia Beach lecture	Virginia Beach Public Library (1986)
Turning the thumbscrew on the reader	Book-of-the-month-club news (1987)
"Ever et raw meat?" and other weird questions	The New York Times book review (1987)
A new introduction to John Fowles's The Collector	The Collector (1989)
What Stephen King does for love	Seventeen (1990)
Two past midnight: A note on Secret Window, Secret Garden	Four Past Midnight (1990)
Introduction to Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door	The Girl Next Door (1995)
Great hookers I have known
A night at the Royal Festival Hall: Muriel Gray interviews Stephen King	1998
An evening with Stephen King	1999
In the Deathroom	Blood and Smoke (1999)