Despite being famously known as the “King of Horror,” Stephen King admits he actually has one fear.

During a recent interview with The Times of London, King revealed he is terrified of being diagnosed with dementia. “That’s what I’m afraid of,” the 77-year-old novelist explained. “I’m afraid of that happening to me, and every time that I can’t remember a word or something, I think, ‘This is the start.'”

Stephen King further reflected on his dementia fears by recalling how he once wrote a story about the end of the world, which was about a man’s life ending and the whole world suddenly stopping.

“There’s a word for that,” he said. “And I can’t remember what it is. It is the idea that we all contain the world, and the world disappears when we disappear. There’s a word for that and I can’t

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