It’s known as “the hook,” the first words of a novel that grab you andpull you in, and before you know it you are part of a story, someone else’sworld, someone else’s struggle, ambition, desire, and for a while, there’s noplace you’d rather be. Can you identify these 10 first lines of the King of Horror?
So far, this is what we have.
1. This is the story of alover’s triangle . . . Christine
2. Once in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king and his two sons. The Eyes of the Dragon
3. George was somewhere inthe dark.
4. He kept doing things without letting himself think about them. Roadwork
5. The world had teeth and it could bit you with them anytime it wanted.
6. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. The Shining
7. Almost everyone thought the man and boy were father and son. Salmen’s Lot
8. It happens innocently enough, but doesn’t it always.
9. News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly Enterprise,August 19, 1966: Carrie
10. “Sally.” The Stand