I think it’s funny that he’s apparently superstitious. You’d figure horror writers would be immune to that.
A very good friend of the family used to own King's current house. She said that she had to jump through about a million hoops to get anything done to it, ever, because it's a part of the local historic register, or somesuch nonsense.
Anyhoo, Mr. King buys the house from her. First thing that he does is to tear out one of the walls to let out all of the evil spirits. :-) Money talks.
King is an odd duck, that's for sure. However, the number of stories like the one in this article are too many to count. My fav is the "Anonymous" 3 million dollar donation to the Bangor Public Library, when it was undergoing renovations. Anonymous. Yeah, right.