![]() Interestingly blending elements of 1950s/1960s monster movies and 1980s slashers (with some environmentalist message thrown), “The Raft” tells the tale of four college students – Randy, Deke, Rachel, and Laverne – who decide one day in late fall to take a jaunt out to a lake where a raft has been left floating in the water. This in mind, it seems utterly perfect that “The Raft” is included in Creepshow 2. So I decided to have a go at re-creating that story, and the result was 'The Raft.' It is the same as the original in terms of event, but I believe it is far more gruesome in its specifics. I was in Pittsburgh, where the final Creepshow editing was going on, and I was bored. I got to thinking about the story again in 1981, some thirteen years later. It wasn’t until 1981 when King was in post-production on a certain film that he decided that he would try and do a redraft. ![]() That’s when he was exposed to what he refers to as a deus ex machina: three days after the judge’s ruling, Adam magazine sent him a check for $250, and King used that money to pay his fine.Īdding an extra wrinkle to this tale is that Stephen King never could find where “The Float” was published (he searched in multiple publications)… and then he accidentally lost the original manuscript. ![]() He was charged with petty larceny and fined $250, which was cash he didn’t have – and if he didn’t successfully come up with the money he was going to have to spend 30 days in the Penobscot County Jail. Trying to pay the bills with his typewriter, he was able to sell it to the adult magazine Adam, but the deal was that he would only get paid (a sum of $250) if it got published.Ī few months later, bizarrely enough, Stephen King found himself in legal trouble due to a revenge incident that saw him trying to illegally collect city traffic cones (one had damaged his car, and he decided to try and steal a bunch so that he could leave them in front of the police station). Originally titled “The Float,” the story was first written in the late 1960s when King was still years away from the financial success that came with the release of Carrie. ![]()
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