Stephen King, then a student at the University of Maine, speaks at a student assembly in 1969. (Credit: Roger H. Fogler Library Special Collections Department/University of Maine.) ...

This fall, Stephen King and his publisher, Scribner, will make autographed first editions of his new novel “Under the Dome” available on their websites for $200 apiece.

A Stephen King novel from the ‘70s became a recurring theme in several shocking and tragic acts of violence. Now it's a lost from print.