Bad and good UK news
Posted: March 11, 2005, 00:00
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Hodder & Stoughton will release a CD with In the Deathroom and Lunch at the Gotham Café in August. Both will be read by King himself.
I have listen to the audio edition of Carrie and to sum it up, I was blown away! You can see what I think about it here and you can order the CD here.
Mick Garris sent me an email today in witch he told me that he will be at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film for the screening of Riding the Bullet 24 March.
Check out my thoughts on the collector's edition of Christine.
Mick Garris will also be a special guest at the 2005 World Horror Convention (http://www.whc2005.org) to be held April 7-10 in New York City.
King's office told me the despite what the publisher says it's not 100% certain that King will sign the limited ed of Transgressions. When asked about it the moderator of King's official message board gave the following reply:
I have taken a look at the biggest King book ever released (to my knowledge), the limited edition of Salem's Lot released by Centipede Press. You can read my thoughts on it here.
It seems that Faithful has been released in the UK after all. It's released by Orion Publishing Group and to the right you can see the UK cover. You can also order the book here: here.
I have just finished McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories that contains King's short story Lisey and the Madman. You can see what I thought about it here.
Stand By Me is being released on DVD in March. There will be a special edition and a deluxe edition. Read more over at IGN.
Some info about King's contribution to the book New Beginnings has now been revealed on his official message board. Unfortunately it's not so good news if they are correct.
I have finished reading and listening to Faithful and if you want, you can see what I thought about it here.
The 3rd edition of The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King is now out. I have taken a look at it and here is what I think about it.
Here is the cover of the book New Beginnings.
On Sunday (Jan. 23) you can see Riding the Bullet on USA Network. I saw it today and here is what I thought about it.
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Today I got these pictures from the filming of Desperation from Mick Garris. As you can see this movie looks really cool. Just check out the picture of Ron Pearlman as Collie Entragian below!




Today I had a chance to watch a Russian Dollar Baby called Srajenie (The Battle). It's animated and about 10 minutes long. It's really cool! Some voiceover is in Russian and some in English...
Here is a color scan of the cover of the trade paperback of Song of Susannah.
I have added my review of Bev Vincent's book The Road to The Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus so you can see how I like that one.
Here is a color scan of the cover of the new audio of Carrie due out in February 2005.
It finally seems that one of my favourite King (or rather Bachman) books might be turned into a movie. In an answer on King's official message board the moderator gave the following answer to whether King would turn The Long Walk into a movie:
Here is an interview with King.
The Dead Zone trading cards from Rittenhouse are on the market now. Here are two links for you to check out: Scifi Hobby and Warp 9.
Faithful is now out in both hardback and on audio. You can order the different editions here:
Here are even more articles with photos (and clips) about the filming of Desperation:
Here is an article about Faithful with a picture of King and O'Nan.