On these two questions

according to stephen king, what is the purpose of horror writing?

to open the door at the top of the stairs

to magnify the 10-foot bug or other horror

to reverse the fall from womb to tomb

to temporarily free the imagination

according to king’s purpose of horror writing, how did irving achieve the purpose of a horror story?

by taking us inside a haunted room

by making the portrait eerily lifelike

by making the narrator childlike in his fear

by ending his story with a door at the top of the stairs

1 - Explanation:

Stephen King has or tries to have a deep understanding of what writing really means, and since he is a horror and science-fiction writer, understanding what writing horror acutally means is probably very important to him.

According to him, writing horror and science-fiction was a way of temporarily freeing the imagination, because when writing a horror/science-ficiton you can be yourself, by letting your mind being who you are.

My opinion: If you were to ask him how to get to know somebody, he would probably say, "show me a horror book of yours, and I'll tell you who you are".

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D. / 4 - To temporarily free the imagination.

2 - Explanation:

Even being a science-ficiton writer, King believed in verisimilitude, and therefore, he thought that making things look, even if only a tiny bit, real, the purpose of a horror story would be achieved.

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B. / 2 - By making the portait eerily lifelike.

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