Most know Stephen King as today’s most revered horror author, the expert conjurer of the kinds of macabre souls that are embedded in our nightmares — the killer clown Pennywise from “It,” the all-work-and-no-play Jack Torrance from “The Shining” and the wackadoodle fan Annie Wilkes from “Misery.”

Those are but a few of King’s most memorable troublemakers. But the King of Horror occasionally shows his softer, more reflective side. The one that propels “The Life of Chuck,” a moving novella, now a film, taken from his best-selling collection “If It Bleeds.” It relates an introspective story about an ordinary man’s life, but catalogues it in reverse. If you’re a person of a certain age you might immediately assume that sounds like a copycat of David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin But

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