Holly by Stephen King, 2023, Scribner, 449pp. Available in ebook and audiobook formats. Nearly any writer who has written fiction more than about ten pages in length has encountered what I call “character creep.” You start out with a “throwaway” character, a red-shirt whose only real purpose is to die in chapter three and alert …
Fairy Tale Author Stephen King Illustrators Gabriel Rodríguez & Nicolas Delort Publisher Scribner Publication date September 6, 2022 At one point or another, a lot of fiction writers, usually already in a particular genre, decide to take a crack at writing a story in Fairyland. The results, at best, are mixed. The last such effort …
Billy Summers Stephen King copyright 2021 Scribner, 527 pages I sometimes think of Stephen King as being the Al Hirschfeld of writers. With minimalist precision, with just a few strokes he can create a fully recognizable and unique character. It takes amazing skill to do that, and the results are so simple and effortless that …
Later Stephen King, 2012, Hard Case Crime, 256pp. Stephen King has gone back to his roots and written what he might call “a good old-fashioned horrorstory.” More to the point, it’s a ghost story. Specifically, a kid who can see ghosts. This is the type of story where King made his bones (so to speak), …
Based on The Stand by Stephen King Developed by Josh Boone & Benjamin Cavell Executive producers Benjamin Cavell, Taylor Elmore, Josh Boone, Will Weiske, Jimmy Miller, Roy Lee, Richard P. Rubinstein Producers Stephen Welke, Jill Killington, Knate Lee, Owen King Production locations British Columbia, Canada James Marsden as Stu Redman Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith …
The Shining Directed & Produced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Diane Johnson Based on The Shining by Stephen King 447 pp, Doubleday 1977 Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd Contains spoilers since I discuss the differences in how the two versions end. But the movie is over 40 years …
If It Bleeds by Stephen King, copyright 2020 Scribner, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Every decade or so, Stephen King likes to put out a collection, usually novellas, sometimes short stories, or a mix of both. So to cap the second decade of the third millennium (Also known as “Mankind’s next-to-last decade”), he …
The Institute by Stephen King Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster (c) 2019 In the wordcloud that surrounds the career of Stephen Edwin King, one of the biggest has to be “supernatural.” Most of his works have at least some supernatural in them, and they tend to be both his most popular and most …
Maggots in the Cantaloupe: A review of Outsider Stephen King, Scribner books copyright 2018, 560 pages. Terry Maitland, a teacher and little league coach in Oklahoma, is accused of raping, mutilating and killing an eleven year old boy. There are eyewitnesses, there are fingerprints, there is DNA evidence. The local cops are so sure he …
Elevation, a novel[la] Copyright © 2018 by Stephen King Illustrations © Mark Edward Geyer Scribner Readers will be irresistibly reminded of Thinner, a 1984 novel by Richard Bachman, in which the central character begins mysteriously losing weight. Bachman, of course, was the nom de slumming of Stephen King, and Thinner was a not-bad effort, one …