Kudos to that lone soul in the public who clapped when King mentioned George Romero.

Watching this in 2019 is like something out of a Stephen King novel.

That is the mother of all beards. The one beard that rules them all.

I know this will sound weird to some people and to some they will sadly know where I'm coming from. Stephen King saved my sanity as a teenager. When i read his books i could leave my horrible home life for a few chapters at a time. When people talk about his drug/alcohol abuse. He's human. Shit happens. Mr. King is the one who told us He had a problem. He's overcome His addictions and is a better man for it. Be like STEPHEN KING!

That's how a writer is supposed to look, dammit.

I remember in the spring of 1982 I had just discovered Stephen King at the age of 14 and my mom woke me up so that I could watch this interview. Thanks for posting this!

Stephen King looked like somebody doing a cosplay of him today.

Most incredible part of this whole interview is King explaining who Ted Danson is to the crowd.

So strange to see him here...wildly successful, but nowhere even NEAR what he’d eventually become. “The young man....Stephen King” wow. So surreal.

King goes on to write The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Dome, Misery and so many other amazing pieces!

And 37 years later, movies are still being made (or remade) of his books.

It’s incredible how much his son Joe Hill looks like him here

A legend in his own lifetime.

Just finished The Institute...King has never slowed with his ability to write terror in ways we don’t usually expect. Another character-driven masterpiece, terrifying us in unorthodox ways. I pray it’s not going to be his last. He just appeared on The View, and he looks rearing to go...probably already working on his next. He produces something like 2,000 words per day, according to him.

Interesting how they keep referring him as “young man” but this was 40 years ago! He is 74 now. Mr. King is one of the best authors that has really influenced my life! Love this guy! 💖

I love it when Stephen King starts talking about creepy weird stuff while he's giving an interview!

Wow great to see some early King ..Thanks !

Stephen King is such phenomenon talent. What a wonderful writer, and yet I keep hearing him a million times, where in the hell does he get his ideas? I grew him up reading his books when I was a kid and now , I'm 55 now and I still read his books. He's my idol. He such an inspiration to us all, I love his passion for books and writing.

Thanks for this clip! SK always gives insights into the writing process in these interviews. A great example for aspiring authors such as myself. IT is his best novel in my opinion: it both scared the shit out of me -- but it also reflected what it was like to grow up in a small town...

This aired on what would have been my 12th birthday. Shortly after I discovered Mr King when I read Carrie and became a lifelong fan and constant reader. Thank you for posting this. I had never seen it before. Very cool.

mad props to Uncle Steve. I never saw this interview as a kid but Creepshow scared me so much. What a thrill. Stephen King is a mensch. I saw him speaking live one year in the nineties in Santa Cruz, he toured on his motorcycle. All around cool guy.

My favorite interviewer and my favorite writer three years before I was born. Thanks, Al. G. Rhythm!

Such a talent and yet he remains so down to earth. Cheers to my fellow Constant Readers.

8:18 check out the date on the crate. King's accident would occur on June 19, 1999, 17 years after this interview.

Thanks for all the great work lately.

Ahead of his time. I've always found King highly relatable.

Classic💎 King, Romero & Creepshow all incredibly legendary 🙌🙌🙌

Thank you so much for uploading this.

Stephan king looks like my high school biology teacher.

this was 42 years ago. :o LETTERMAN AND STEPHEN KING ARE ABSOLUTE LEGENDS.

Poor George Romero got one single clap when mentioned 😭

This interview took place three days before I was born. Gotta love bearded Stephen King 👍

Thanks again, Don!

What a rare video interview! Great! Isn't it uncanny how much Joe Hill looks like his dad?? wow.

He talks about gore so casually and it's legendary

Good lord. This was when I was starting my lifelong journey with Stephen King, with me the humble constant reader endlessly entertained. Cheers!

You have to give it to King. His creative mind is just awesome. That level of consistency over decades. It’s truly impressive.

Being a Creepshow fanboy, hearing someone talk about pre release kicks ass! >:P

Geez what are his glasses, like a minus eleven?

Spontaneous combustion!! He is one of the VERY BEST in so many lifetimes🤔 Joe Hill is incredible too!

Holy shit he looks exactly like his son Joe Hill here. Like 100% the same person.

1:26 the one geek that laughs in the audience and nobody follows him.

He’s such a good writer because he could see through the pages of his own manuscript and see what he was going to write next with those glasses

"Did you have a normal childhood?" *King thinking about Dave's super duper electromagnet* ....Yes.

The thumbnail for the video had me thinking they were interviewing the king of the beavers

the most mindblowing things i had in my live was reading "insomnia" that book is close to lucid dreaming without fallling asleep

that beard is an absolute unit

Found this looking for Stephen King interviews, forgot how good early Letterman was while watching.

Creep Show is an excellent movie. The variety among the five stories guarantees one of them will rattle your nerves. The Crate is my favorite.

Kings mind is AMAZING,If you read one of his books,they are very hard to put down!Insomnia is a GREAT book!

Creepshow gives me the chills more than any other movie.

Creepshow is great! I enjoyed it as a kid and still do today.

This is some great King nostalgia

I almost thought that he had a single, giant tooth when I looked at the thumbnail.

The King of Horror stories, Mr.Stephen King! #1 in my book! even though there are some other good author's out there as well!

I like how on old talk shows they would basically explain the entire movie.

Great to see Steve at such a young age

"I love Night of the Living Dead. The one where they are walking though the mall..." lol

i love these movies

Stephen King looks like a Lego caricature of himself in this interview.

Lol he had to explain who Ted Danson is.

I was born exactly 1 year later to the day when this aired

He's so cool. I love him!

The more I see this man,the more it amazes me.My God ,he himself looked so terrifying for a supernatural writer!

My favorite book of the king must be *IT*... the characters and atmosphere are so good.

Thank you, I'm a big fan of the earlier Letterman shows. Don, I don't know if you were involved with the NBC's Night Music with David Sanborn, it was a great jazz showcase while it lasted. If you have some clips...

Killer bro, thanks for posting!

What's crazy is, before I knew what SK looked like, that is exactly! how I pictured him to look.

Great look!

If you put a picture of his Son Joe along side this 1982 version of Stephen… amazing

I believe King has said that Pet Semetary was the one book that creeped him out the most. I have not seen the remake, but the first movie stands up remarkably well (which sort of surprised me). Also, considering that King himself was struck by a truck on a busy, yet small, Maine road, well, that was just weird.

Watching this makes you see why David Letterman is a legend

Love this guy!!

I forget about this genius sometimes.

This gets better by the minute

Those legs at the beginning are stunning .

What a legend

My older sister read Carrie Book , but I was too young only 6 years old. One day I climbed My Sisters Closet & saw the Book Carrie.. A woman with Blood over her. I started to place stickers up in the closet that are still there today & Today no one knows about all the 50 stickers up in the closet.... There still there... today, no one is small enough to climb up closet & see them. Theirs a sticker from Jet Fire an Auto-bot Transformer that cost over 40$ in the 80's. No one today knows there still up in the closet.... after 38 years...

Currently I feel like I’m in a Stephen Corona novel............

“It’s a fun picture!” It actually is! Funny as hell!

Nice to see Letterman inviting Gerry Adams onto the show.

Wow, Stephen King was so young there. Great interview by David Letterman.

1.) There is *no* "the" in "Firestarter"... *still,* David Letterman! 2.) My favorite part of Creepshow was "The Crate," and its duration was one of the best things about it, because (as with "Alien") it gave time for the characters and situations to develop better, so we were more invested in their fates. 3.) I really enjoyed "Something To Tide You Over," and regard it as the 2nd best part of Creepshow, right after "The Crate." 4.) I wish more people would see "Creepshow," because it was a loving tribute to the genre, and *anything* featuring both you *and* you son is *guaranteed* to be good! 👍 5.) I'm quite convinced the key thing *was* a trick, yes. Come on, you *know* what Carl Sagan would say; Controlled conditions...which a salon *isn't.*

So many years to get a black hole photography and alll you had to do was combine Stephen's King lenses...

I like how he mentioned someone breaking up your bones with a rake after you're cremated. That sort of disturbing fact sticks in your mind, and sounds like the basis for his writing style.

Funny, he mentions Ted Danson, who was in body heat when Cheers was going to premiere later that year.

So cool.

I have said it before, and will say it again. Don Giller is a national treasure.

Such an immensely talented American treasure.

Still waiting on behind the scenes footage of him directing Maximum Overdrive

It was interesting to see where the cover to the band Part Time's "Spell No. 6" album came from in the first three seconds of this clip

Mr. King is a giant inspiration for me in my material. My Brother Mike would do a pretty weird but good impression of the zombie skeleton of the Father from Creepshow. It's my favorite Mr. King and Mr. Romero film. 1. Creepshow 2. IT 3. Salem's Lot 3. The Shining 5. Storm Of The Century 6. Rose Red 7. Sleepwalkers 8. Silver Bullet 9. Pet Sematary 10. Christine I would make my Top 10 King Favorites List.

Creepshow 1 and 2 are legend!

Creepshow was awesome

That OG handshake tho!!!

holy wow imagine being in that audience when mr king was not so well known

I’m only here to watch King talk about my favorite horror film of all time 👍

Another mistake: King mentioned Ted Danson was in The Choirboys, when he was in the same author's The Onion Field.

Love to the King!

This is one really cool interview because it's from 1982, before so many masterpieces. He looks cute :)