Other Pseudonyms
King wrote a 1973 short story, "The Fifth Quarter", under the pseudonym John Swithen. This story was reprinted in King's collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993 under his own name.
In the introduction to the novel Blaze, King (writing about Bachman) claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" used the pseudonym John Swithen for The Fifth Quarter.
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