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Mate don't delete it on my account. You're free to say what you want, but I've always thought King was a solid family man with ethics and morals I understand and admire. Labeling him as pretty much the worst type of person that can be just makes me a bit uncomfortable. I know you probably didn't intend it that way, but that's how crazy internet rumours start which can be damaging to innocent people. I also think Mr King himself would be saddened to read something like that.

But yeah, maybe look at it like the kid is pretty much always the hero in his stories, and he always reflects on childhood friendships with such warmth and affection. To me he's like the anti-Michael Jackson, he doesn't profess undying love for children like some self-appointed Messiah as Jacko did, instead he presents the sometimes disturbing reality of their existence and shows their strength and courage and heroism.

Well, to be honest, I haven't read those two ones. I haven't read anything he published after mid-90s, and when I've tried, I left after a few chapters.

So... I can't tell about those two ones. But in his 70s to 90s works, while it's true that there's often little kids, it's always as a part of a father-son relationship. There's always a parent figure (father, mother, or both), and the relationship between the kid and the parent is key to the novel. I would say that this suggests that he had some kind of complicated relationship with his parents, and that subject became a key element in his novels. Interpreting it as a paedo stuff... I think that's a bit far-fetched.