The devil inside

When Joe Hill decided to become a writer -- a horror writer no less -- he knew comparisons to his father, Stephen King, would be inevitable. So he tried to keep it a secret, until his success gave him away.

By Joel Brown

Globe Correspondent / March 30, 2010

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With his bangs and glasses, horror author Joe Hill looks like a younger version of the genre’s most famous writer: Stephen King. But for years Hill collected rejection slips while hiding the fact that he’s King’s son. (Full article: 1178 words)