i love hearing about how people got started reading stephen king.
the first book of his that i read was night shift. i bought it at a yard sale because the picture on the front gave me the creeps, it was the paperback version with a sickle and lots of little green glowing eyes in a cornfield on the cover. i read the boogeyman before any of the other stories and i was addicted before i finished that one. i think it was the first book i ever read that i refused to let go of until i was done, and it started the only childhood obsession that i grew into instead of growing out of.