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Simply because by far the majority of his books are classified as horror.

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duke wrote:Does King have literary merit? Well, the only other author who is "canon" who wrote in a similar vein to King that I can think of is Edgar Allan Poe.

So that begs the question, is King as good as Poe? What do you guys think?
Not in a million years. Poe was a litrerary genius.
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