Stephen King: NOT a Friend of Jane?
In an Australian article about fellow horrid-novel writer Dean Koontz, Stephen King is quoted as saying he has never read Jane Austen.
‘NEVER,” Stephen King admitted when asked if he’d read Jane Austen or Tolstoy, “but I have read most of what Dean Koontz has written.”
Like the author of the article, we think Mr. King may have been teasing; we seem to dimly recall Austen references in Mr. King’s book On Writing (though we’ve blocked out much of what we read in that book as it gave us writer’s block for a month; it’s the scariest book that Mr. King ever wrote, in our humble opinion). If not, it would be a shame, for if anyone should read Northanger Abbey, it’s Stephen King. 
