I think I found out where Stephen King, writer of such hair-raising stories like Carrie, Salem’s Lot, and The Stand, got the title for his scary short story Children of the Corn. I think he got it from the Maya. The Popol Vuh, a poem that tells the Maya story of creation, is not just a riveting read, but it also helps us to understand how the Mayans and other Mesoamericans thought about the world.
The Original Children of the Corn
The Original Children of the Corn
The Original Children of the Corn
I think I found out where Stephen King, writer of such hair-raising stories like Carrie, Salem’s Lot, and The Stand, got the title for his scary short story Children of the Corn. I think he got it from the Maya. The Popol Vuh, a poem that tells the Maya story of creation, is not just a riveting read, but it also helps us to understand how the Mayans and other Mesoamericans thought about the world.