For nearly three decades, Albert (Al) Hanley III has worked in the transportation industry. He has held several positions at the Commercial License Driver’s School, Inc., and is currently division president for education and training for Transforce Group, a transportation and logistics workforce service company. In his spare time, Al Hanley III likes to play golf, hike, and read, particularly Stephen King novels.
A prolific author, bestselling novelist Stephen King is best known as a horror writer, but has works in multiple genres. Here are some of his more popular works:
The Stand is a huge, doorstopper of a book. It is about a plague that wipes out nearly all of humanity. In the aftermath of the plague two groups emerge, one group is led by a good-hearted woman called Abigail, the other by a demonic entity called Flagg. The Stand is about the confrontation between these two groups.
While The Shining was a King novel before becoming the famous horror movie, he’s said he didn’t like the movie adaptation, and many believe that the book is vastly different. The Shining is about a family vacation in a haunted hotel. The supernatural nature of the hotel is exacerbated by the child’s extra sensory perception.
Stephen King’s take on vampires can be found in Salem’s Lot. Set in in an American town, it is one of King’s earliest novels and a much-appreciated addition to vampire lore. It is about a town in Maine whose inhabitants are preyed on by a vampire. King shows the townspeople reacting in a very modern way - denial. This reaction results in nearly the entire town being victimized until an intrepid group decides to fight back.
