RADIO

That’s a Horror: Best-selling author Stephen King, whose specialty is telling horror stories, has taken to the radio to tell his neighbors in Bangor, Me., to stop the “concrete monster.” King has recorded a 60-second radio commercial urging voters on Nov. 5 to reject the proposed widening of a 30-mile stretch of the Maine Turnpike. The spot, which began airing over the weekend, has King saying, “Horror is my bread and butter, but I can’t imagine a worse horror than to waste $100 million of Maine’s hard-earned public money just to widen a stretch of road in southern Maine.” King says stopping the expansion would keep a “concrete monster from gobbling up more of Maine’s countryside.”