A closer look
Horror author Stephen King genuinely has absolutely zero memory of writing his bestselling nineteen eighty one novel Cujo because he was suffering from an incredibly severe, near fatal cocaine and alcohol addiction during the entire drafting process. Fans frequently praise the brilliant narrative tension of a terrified mother trapped in a sweltering car by a rabid Saint Bernard, completely unaware that the legendary author was essentially functioning on pure, unfiltered chemical momentum at the time. It is a wildly chaotic flex to be so inherently talented at crafting terrifying psychological suspense that your subconscious brain can casually pump out a literary classic while your conscious mind is completely checked out of reality. Most normal people struggle to remember where they placed their car keys after a rough night out, but this magnificent madman literally blacked out for an entire year and woke up with a completed manuscript that later became a major motion picture
