Legends of the Underwood #3: Richard Bachman

Completed in a blind heat—The Running Man was written in a mere 72 hours—it was declined by at least two New York publishers before consignment to the desk drawer that would later spawn four [Richard] Bachman novels. "It's nothing but story," says [Stephen] King. "It moves with the goofy speed of a silent movie, and anything which is not story is cheerfully thrown over the side.

—Douglas E. Winter, Appendix A to Stephen King: The Art of Darkness

(Third in a series.)