KING OF HORRORS: MY DEMENTIA FEAR

Author's misery at forgetting words

- BY KENZI DEVINE

HE is the author of some of the world's most chilling horror stories but Stephen King has revealed that his own nightmare is his fear of getting dementia.

The writer, 77, says he worries about losing his memory, a decade after fellow novelist Terry Pratchett died having lived for eight years with Alzheimer's.