Write about your childhood reading passions

This is the third in a series of short writing prompts inspired by Stephen King's "On Writing": 

Stephen King describes his first experiences reading as well as the movies and TV shows (also stories) that grabbed him as a kid and captured his imagination. He started with comic books, then war and animal adventure stories. Later, he explains, "Horror movies, science fiction movies, movies about teenage gangs on the prowl, movies about losers on motorcycles_this was the stuff that turned my dials up to ten." What books, or movies and shows, turned up your dials when you were younger? It's a good idea to think, and write about, your early literary love affairs because—as in the case of King—it might be a good predictor of what you want to write. It might also be an insightful predictor of what you're good at writing.