Under the Dome Season 3 Teaser
Posted: May 19, 2015, 09:24
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T.R. Knight joins 11/22/63
Posted: May 18, 2015, 22:25
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11/22/63 will air on Hulu in 2016.
Thanks to Lou Sytsma.
Plot & Photos From Season 3
Posted: May 18, 2015, 09:21
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UNDER THE DOME, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, tells the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. In the weeks following the Dome’s descent on the sleepy town of Chester’s Mill, the inhabitants have been forced to adapt. Combating Dome- and man-made threats daily, the community rises to new heights of ingenuity, courage and, for some, darkness, in order to survive their post-apocalyptic isolation. Just as the town’s quest for answers reveals a seemingly viable path to freedom, everything the residents think they know about the Dome and its motivations is turned upside down. Again facing an uncertain future, the citizens of Chester’s Mill begin to realize their true destiny as the Dome reveals more of its ultimate agenda for them. As new dangers emerge, battle lines are drawn that will alter relationships in ways none of them could imagine. For this town, the true threat to the human spirit’s resilience is no longer just the invisible dome that has cut them off from civilization – but it is the enemy within.
Begins its third season Thursday, June 25 on the CBS Television Network
4th Version of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Cover
Posted: May 16, 2015, 01:05
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Finders Keepers Commercial
Posted: May 15, 2015, 18:56
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Finders Keepers Audio Excerpt
Posted: May 15, 2015, 17:54
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King at the Edgar Awards
Posted: May 15, 2015, 14:34
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If you turn down a good idea you’re a fucking asshole.
- Stephen King accepting his Edgar Awards for Mr Mercedes.
Thanks to Adam Sheets
Animated Cover For Finders Keepers
Posted: May 14, 2015, 17:58
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Finders Keepers Excerpt
Posted: May 14, 2015, 17:47
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Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Drunken Firework; A One-of-a-Kind Audio Event
Posted: May 13, 2015, 00:03
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Read the entire press release here.
“Great stories are often better when told out loud,” said King. “This event is a cool way for more people to discover just how fun listening to my stories can be.”
Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Plot For Drunken Fireworks
Posted: May 12, 2015, 23:49
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Alden McCausland and his mother are what they call “accident rich”; thanks to an unexpected life insurance policy payout and a winning Big Maine Millions scratcher, Alden and his Ma are able to spend their summers down by Lake Abenaki, idly drinking their days away in a three-room cabin with an old dock and a lick of a beach.
Across the lake, they can see what “real rich” looks like: the Massimo family’s Twelve Pines Camp, the big white mansion with guest house and tennis court that Alden’s Ma says is paid for by “ill-gotten gains” courtesy of Massimo Construction. When Alden’s holiday-weekend sparklers and firecrackers set off what over the next few years comes to be known as the 4th of July Arms Race, he learns how far he and the Massimos will go to win an annual neighborly rivalry – one that lands Alden in the Castle County jail.
3rd Version of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Cover
Posted: May 12, 2015, 23:32
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2nd Version of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Cover
Posted: May 8, 2015, 21:31
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Finders Keepers Excerpt
Posted: May 7, 2015, 23:09
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
In The Tall Grass as a Movie
Posted: May 7, 2015, 17:03
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Vincenzo Natali, the brilliant director behind CUBE, SPLICE, and HAUNTER (not to mention episodes of NBC's "Hannibal" and Netflix's "Hemlock Grove) is set to bring us an adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill's novella IN THE TALL GRASS, which will be kicking off pre-sales in Cannes next week, according to Screen Daily.
Natali adapted the screenplay from the novella by Stephen King and Joe Hill, which first appeared as a story in Esquire. Paradigm represents US rights to the project.
Steve Hoban of Copperheart, which is producing in association with Mosaic Media, serves as producer and Gloria Fan is executive producer. Principal photography is scheduled for September in the Toronto area.
Thanks to Adam Sheets
Revival out in Paperback Today!
Posted: May 5, 2015, 15:32
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Ask Away in the Next Podcast
Posted: May 5, 2015, 09:17
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IT Remake Finds Its Pennywise
Posted: May 4, 2015, 23:38
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Will Poulter, best known for his roles in The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Maze Runner, has landed a major part in a very different kind of literary adaptation. According to Variety, the We’re the Millers star is currently in negotiations to play Pennywise the clown in the upcoming two-part remake of Stephen King’s IT. Cary Fukunaga, the Emmy-winning director behind the first season of HBO’s “True Detective,” is directing and co-writing.
Poulter, who also stars in Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, reportedly blew Fukunaga away with his IT audition, so audiences should be in for a treat when the two-part adaptation finally hits the screen.
Fukunaga wrote the screenplay for the films with Chase Palmer and David Kajganich. Dan Lin, David Katzenberg, Doug Davison and Seth Grahame-Smith are attached to serve as producers.
Thanks to Lou Sytsma, Troy Tradup and Douglas Dowie
11/22/63 in 2016
Posted: May 2, 2015, 08:42
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First Piece of Bazaar Cover
Posted: May 1, 2015, 22:59
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May 1st, 8th, 12th, 15th, and 22nd. Look for a new piece at 3pm EDT on those dates. Here is the first piece.
Drunken Fireworks Cover
Posted: April 27, 2015, 20:53
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German Cover For Finders Keepers
Posted: April 27, 2015, 15:24
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Trailer For Season 3
Posted: April 26, 2015, 00:34
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Thanks to Herbert West
Eriq La Salle Cast in Under the Dome
Posted: April 24, 2015, 10:21
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King and Straub Talks Talisman & Black House
Posted: April 24, 2015, 02:31
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Peter Straub commented that he and King were bouncing ideas for Talisman 3 revolving around the Starkweather Murders. He read a book called "Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people"
Thanks to Randall Flagg and Papaseraphim
Mr Mercedes Trailer
Posted: April 23, 2015, 23:56
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Bruce Willis Talks Misery
Posted: April 23, 2015, 22:19
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Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Yesterday at St. Francis College
Posted: April 23, 2015, 00:24
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King and Straub at yesterday's event at St. Francis College.
Owen King, Emma Straub, Stephen King and Peter Straub
The Suicide Prince
Posted: April 22, 2015, 15:34
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Thanks to Herbert West
Ep 43: The Other Carries
Posted: April 21, 2015, 17:00
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With your hosts - longtime Faithful Reader - Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and podcaster - Lou Sytsma.
Welcome to Episode 43 of The Stephen King Podcast!
Your co-hosts Hans Lilja & Lou Sytsma review the other Carrie movies you may may not be aware of:
1) The Bryan Fuller - of the Hannibal TV series fame - 2002 TV movie adaptation
2) The Rage: Carrie2 - the 1999 theatrical sequel
Find out what we thought of them!
Shout! Factory
Carrie / The Rage: Carrie 2 [Double Feature] Blu Ray
Plus we kick off our discussions of Richard Chizmar's - owner of Cemetery Dance Magazine and Publications - thoughts on reading all the Stephen King novels over at - Stephen King Revisited.
We start with at the beginning with Carrie.
Stephen King Revisited article links:
1) How Carrie Happened by Bev Vincent
2) King, Carrie, and a Religious Revelation by Ray Garton
3) Carrie: The Curious Case of George Chizmar by Richard Chizmar
4) Revisiting Carrie by Richard Chizmar
As always, we bring you the latest Stephen King news.
We hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, we want to hear from you.
Good or bad, we want it all!
You can leave us comments, questions, topic suggestions at:
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2) Audio Message - Speak Pipe widget on the right hand of the podcast page (send voicemail)
In this podcast:
1) 00:00 - Intro
2) 00:57 - Podcast Setup
3) 01:18 - From The Death Room - The Latest Stephen King News
4) 29:20 - Reviews From The NightShift - The Other Carries
5) 1:05:39 - Stephen King Revisited - Carrie
6) 1:28:04 - Sign Off
7) 37:08 - Outre
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Finders Keepers Excerpt in Mr Mercedes Paperback
Posted: April 21, 2015, 11:45
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Full list of stories for The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Posted: April 20, 2015, 15:56
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Author’s note
Introduction
1. Mile 81 – Scribner e.
2. Premium Harmony – 2009 New Yorker
3. Batman and Robin Have an Altercation – Harpers 2012
4. The Dune – Granta 2011
5. Bad Little Kid – New; Serial
6. A Death
7. The Bone Church – poem
8. Morality – Esquire 2009
9. Afterlife – Tin House 2013
10. Ur – 2009 Amazon e.
11. Herman Wouk is Still Alive – The Atlantic 2011
12. Under the Weather – Mass Market FDNS
13. Blockade Billy – Scribner e.
14. Mister Yummy – New; Serial
15. Tommy – Playboy poetry
16. The Little Green God of Agony – A Book of Horrors 2011
17. That Bus is Another World - Esquire
18. Obits – New; Serial
19. Drunken Fireworks
20. Summer Thunder – Cemetery Dance 2013
Source: StephenKing.com
Sony & MRC to fast track The Dark Tower Movie
Posted: April 10, 2015, 20:16
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The new script is primarily based on the first book in the series, The Gunslinger, and the relationship between Roland and Jake. The film is a blend of horror and fantasy. The latest draft of the script is co-written by Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner. It was totally reconceived by Goldsman and Pinkner from the version that had been previously developed and which took root first at Universal and later at Warner Bros. Goldsman is producing through his Weed Road with Imagine Entertainment’s Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins, and I believe the author is also in a producing capacity. Pinkner will be exec producer.
Sony and MRC will go right out after filmmakers with this script, and put this on the fast track that hard-core fans of King’s book have long desired. Numerous stars including Javier Bardem and Russell Crowe have eyed the role of the gunslinger, but that role won’t be filled until after the director is set.
King, who options his works for $1 and likes to see progress, has been incredibly patient as this mammoth project — it’s his answer to Tolkien’s Middle Earth novels — has taken its time and its twists and turns. He’s sparked about where the project is now.
“I’m excited that The Dark Tower is finally going to appear on the screen,” he said in a statement. “Those who have traveled with Roland and his friends in their search for the Dark Tower are going to have their long-held hopes fully realized. This is a brilliant and creative approach to my books.”
Tom RothmanSaid Rothman: “There are few projects out there that compare with the scope, vision, complex characters and fully drawn world that Stephen King has created with The Dark Tower. I am a giant fan. And, as Stephen himself does, we love the direction that Akiva and Jeff have taken. This is a great opportunity for a director to put his or her stamp on a cool global franchise.”
Source: Deadline.
A new King book, a new Lilja's Library Contest
Posted: April 10, 2015, 15:29
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King Tweets
Posted: April 10, 2015, 09:18
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Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Finders Keepers Broadside - Collectors Item
Posted: April 9, 2015, 10:15
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Casting Announced For 11/22/63
Posted: April 7, 2015, 20:54
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Chris Cooper (Al Templeton) - The irascible owner of Al’s diner, a mentor/friend to Jake. His appeal to save Kennedy sends Jake on his incredible mission.
Sarah Gadon (Sadie Dunhill) - Sadie is the luminous, sharp librarian in 1960s Jodie, Texas. She falls in love with Jake, unaware of his double life.
Cherry Jones (Marguerite Oswald) - Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother. She is as needy and difficult as her infamous son.
Daniel Webber (Lee Harvey Oswald) - One of the most discussed figures in American history and an enigma even to himself.
George MacKay (Bill Turcotte) - A young, guileless bartender from 1960s Kentucky, Bill becomes Jake’s ally.
Lucy Fry (Marina Oswald) - Lee Harvey Oswald’s Russian wife. She is a knockout and challenged to make her way in a foreign country with her unpredictable husband.
Leon Rippy (Harry Dunning) - A kind, soft-spoken and damaged janitor at Jake’s school in 2015; his traumatic early life in the 1960’s has a surprising impact on Jake.
James Franco (Jake Epping) - A high school English teacher who travels back in time to try to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on the fateful date in American history.
Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald has signed on to direct and executive produce the first two hours of the nine-hour event series.
Thanks to Lou Sytsma
Sarah Gadon To Star In 11/22/63
Posted: April 7, 2015, 11:55
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Sarah Gadon will star in 11/22/63, based on the 2011 bestseller from Stephen King about Jake Epping (Franco), an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to 9/9/1958 and goes on a quest to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, his falling in love and a past that doesn’t want to be changed. Gadon plays the statuesque, smart and outspoken Sadie, a librarian at the Texas school Jake works at.
Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland) is directing the first two hours of the miniseres, with JJ Abrams and Bad Robot producing. Bridget Carpenter (The Red Road) has adapted the novel.
Thanks to Lou Sytsma
IT Filmed in Bangor?
Posted: April 1, 2015, 15:24
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Content
Posted: April 1, 2015, 10:47
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Confirmed stories
- Afterlife (previously published in Tim House #56, 2013)
- Obits (New)
- The Dune (previously published in Granta #117, 2011)
- Morality (previously published in Esquire July issue, 2009 and Blockade Billy, 2010)
- UR (previously published as a standalone eBook and an audiobook)
- Drunken Firework (will be published as audiobook June 30, 2015)
- Bad Little Kid (previously published as a standalone eBook in France and Germany in respective language)
- A Death (previously published this year in The New Yorker)
Descriptions of stories included
- “a man who keeps reliving the same life, repeating the same mistakes over and over again”
--- Probably Afterlife
- “a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries”
---Probably Obits
- “a poignant tale about the end of the human race”
---Probably Summer Thunder
Unpublished Stories = 1
Published Stories = 7 (8*)
Unknown Stories = 12 (11*)
* If I'm correct in my guess that Summer Thunder is included.
Where Do You Want Your King News?
Posted: March 31, 2015, 14:38
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King in 2015
Posted: March 31, 2015, 00:25
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IT Filming in June
Posted: March 30, 2015, 23:23
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The feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s It is finally entering pre-production, with plans on going behind cameras this June in New York, reports Production Weekly.
The first in what could be a new trilogy is to be helmed by “True Detective’s” Cary Fukunaga.
4 New Stories Confirmed for Bazaar
Posted: March 30, 2015, 16:25
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- Afterlife (previously published in Tim House #56, 2013)
- Obits (New)
- The Dune (previously published in Granta #117, 2011)
- Morality (previously published in Esquire July issue, 2009 and Blockade Billy, 2010)
- UR (previously published as a standalone eBook and an audiobook)
- Drunken Firework (will be published as audiobook June 30, 2015)
- Bad Little Kid (previously published as a standalone eBook in France and Germany in respective language)
- A Death (previously published this year in The New Yorker)
Unpublished Stories = 1
Published Stories = 7
Unknown Stories = 12
A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.
Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.
There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in “Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil’s pact they can win.
Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King’s finest gifts to his constant reader—“I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”
Ep 42: Gramma Gets No Mercy
Posted: March 26, 2015, 23:26
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With your hosts Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and podcaster - Lou Sytsma.
Welcome to Episode 42 of The Stephen King Podcast!
Your co-hosts Hans Lilja & Lou Sytsma review the straight to video release of the movie adaption of the King short story - Gramma - called - Mercy.
As always, we bring you the latest Stephen King news.
We hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, we want to hear from you.
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1) 00:00 - Intro
2) 00:57 - Podcast Setup
2) 04:12 - From The Death Room - The Latest Stephen King News
3) 14:38 - Reviews From The NightShift - Mercy
4) 34:09 - Sign Off
5) 37:08 - Outre
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Cover For UK Drunken Fireworks
Posted: March 26, 2015, 20:08
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A new audiobook from Stephen King
Coming June 2015
From International No.1 bestselling author Stephen King, comes a brand-new, never-before-published audio only story on 30 June. Drunken Fireworks will be available from Hodder & Stoughton in both CD and digital download form.
In this new tour-de-force from Stephen King – unavailable in print or any other format – a salt-of-the-earth Maine native recounts how a friendly annual summer fireworks-show rivalry with his neighbour across the lake gradually spirals out of control…with explosive results.
Read by Tim Sample, and perfectly timed to coincide with 4 July Fireworks in the States, Drunken Fireworks will initially be released exclusively in audio before it is available as part of King's exciting new collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, coming on 3 November. Find out more here.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams info From Hodder
Posted: March 26, 2015, 20:04
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A new collection of stories from Stephen King
Coming November 2015
Hodder and Stoughton is delighted to announce that they will publish Stephen King's new book The Bazaar of Bad Dreams on 3 November 2015. It will be released as a hardback, trade paperback for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, eBook and audio digital download.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a thrilling collection of twenty stories – some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time – with a wonderful bonus: in addition to his introduction to the whole collection, King gives readers a fascinating introduction to each story with autobiographical comments on their origins and motivation. This will delight all his readers including those who loved his insight into the craft of writing in his non-fiction title On Writing.
Stephen King is the master of the short story form – the No. 1 bestselling writer has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of novellas and short story fiction since his first collection Night Shift was published 35 years ago. He describes the nature of the form in his introduction to the book: ‘There's something to be said for a shorter, more intense experience. It can be invigorating, sometimes even shocking, like a waltz with a stranger you will never see again, or a kiss in the dark, or a beautiful curio for sale laid out on a cheap blanket at a street bazaar.’
And indeed in this collection there is a curio for every reader – a man who keeps reliving the same life, repeating the same mistakes over and over again, a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries, a poignant tale about the end of the human race and a firework competition between neighbours which reaches and explosive climax. This latter, excitingly, will be launched initially as an audio-only edition – find out more here.
‘I made them especially for you’, says King to his Constant Reader. ‘Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.'
Paperback Edition of Doctor Sleep
Posted: March 23, 2015, 16:29
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Peter Straub Talk Talisman 3 at a signing in 2014
Posted: March 19, 2015, 09:58
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Thanks to Cody Williams
Hardcover Edition of Joyland Announced
Posted: March 18, 2015, 15:24
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COMING IN NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION
Hardcover Edition from Hard Case Crime to Feature Never-Before-Seen Art by Glen Orbik, Robert McGinnis, Mark Summers and Pat Kinsella.
Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels from editor Charles Ardai and publisher Titan Books, announced today that in September 2015 they will publish a new illustrated hardcover edition of their bestselling title of all time, Stephen King’s JOYLAND. The acclaimed coming-of-age story set in a possibly haunted small-town amusement park spent more than 25 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List in paperback and ebook format. Aside from certain extremely limited editions for collectors, however, no hardcover edition of the book has ever been published.
The new edition will feature a brand new cover painting by popular Hard Case Crime artist Glen Orbik, whose other covers for the series include books by Gore Vidal and Michael Crichton; a map of the Joyland amusement park illustrated in the classic ‘mapback’ style by Susan Hunt Yule; and more than twenty interior illustrations by acclaimed artists Robert McGinnis, Mark Summers and Pat Kinsella.
