Collings was introduced to Stephen King's work by a student, David A. Engebretson, in 1983, and published his first book on him, The Many Facets of Stephen King, in 1985; reading King led to his also studying and publishing on Koontz and Robert McCammon.[8]
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Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), Starmont House, ISBN 0-930261-00-3
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