when people think of horror eventually, they will think of stephen king and that think of edgar allen poeephen king a note 31 years ago. i was with nbc. i said: i travel a lot and i enjoy your book, something like that. he had just finished publishing "christine." and he said, it's interesting that i should hear from someone i -- he put it in quotes -- know, because i just saw you at three mile island. and that's the one thing i would never be able to write about, is nuclear power run amok. i appreciate your report and i'll look forward to reading more of you. i've been offered so much money for that because it's stephen king admitting there's one thing that frightens him so much he won't write about it. 31 years ago. he's a good write jeer march 29, 1979, you were at three mile? >> guest: was i? how do you know that and i don't. >> host: that's the date it occurred. >> guest: oh. >> host: or the day after. >> guest: any god, you're prepared. so i was there, yes. >> host: how close were you allowed to get to that? to the reactor. >> guest: well, enough so that they were in the background,