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The Music Room; New King Story

Posted: April 4, 2016, 08:22
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Lawrence Block confirms that King will have his new story The Music Room in his anthology In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper that will be released in hardcover December 6. You can pre-order it now!

"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers, and yet his paintings never tell a story so much as they invite viewers to find for themselves the untold stories within."

So says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand-new stories: In Sunlight or In Shadow. The results are remarkable and range across all genres, wedding literary excellence to storytelling savvy.

Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Spider Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself. Even Gail Levin, Hopper’s biographer and compiler of his catalogue raisonée, appears with her own first work of fiction, providing a true account of art theft on a grand scale and told in the voice of the country preacher who perpetrated the crime.

In a beautifully produced anthology as befits such a collection of acclaimed authors, each story is illustrated with a quality full-color reproduction of the painting that inspired it. Illustrated with 17 full color plates, one for each chapter.

Two Unconfirmed News

Posted: April 4, 2016, 00:24
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This weekend has been one of questionable news. Two new pieces has been turning up but since April 1st was the day I heard about this I’m not sure if these are correct news or if it’s just April Fools Jokes. So, take these for rumors/April Fools Jokes for now and I’ll keep digging for information. And the second I get more info about this I’ll let you know, OK? Here we go.

News #1:

On the site Carnel House this was reported.
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Not a Joke, Not a Drill! Dept. Well, it's not the new book news we've been waiting for, but it's the next best thing. Lawrence Block, brilliant mystery & crime novelist (whose first book featuring Matthew Scudder appeared as a limited edition featuring a foreword by Stephen King) has edited a curious and exciting new book featuring stories inspired by the work of American emotional realist painter Edward Hopper. The roster of authors is fantastic - everyone from Joe R. Lansdale to Joyce Carol Oates to Block himself - but of interest here is what appears to be a brand-new story by Stephen King. No news on the story yet, but using deductive reasoning (as these are stories written to a theme), it doesn't seem premature to believe this is all new work. The book, In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper is out in hardcover December 6, and you can order it now!
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Not sure if this is correct info but the book is listed on Amazon so the book is probably for real. And it probably have a story by King in it. If it’s a new one…that we don’t know just yet.

News#2:


King posted this photo on facebook and twitter and then posted the following:


Now, this could be King joking or it could really be that there will be a book called Hearts in Suspension coming this fall. And if there is, is it a sequel to Hearts in Atlantis? Or are the similar titles just a coincident?

I hope to have more info on these two news items soon!

Akiva Goldsman Adapting Doctor Sleep

Posted: April 1, 2016, 21:49
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Reports online say that Akiva Goldsman has been tasked with adapting Doctor Sleep for the big screen for Warner Bros. Pictures, with producers Jon Berg and Jon Gonda overseeing the project too. Currently, there is no director attached to the project, nor does Warner have a firm release date target in mind for the movie.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma and Rick Urban

11.22.63 Episode 7 Review

Posted: March 28, 2016, 09:01
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Here is my review of the 7th episode of 11.22.63.

The buildup to the end is working well. Now we just have to see how it all ends and if Jake decides to go back to the future or stay in the past with Sadie.

Creepshow Doc. Just Desserts Soon Out In The US

Posted: March 26, 2016, 01:23
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DUHD reports that the Creepshow documentary Just Desserts soon will be released in the US.

Creepshow documentary Just Desserts has been available in the UK for quite sometime now, but fans in the United States still have not had the documentary made available to them, until now. Synapse Films will be releasing the documentary on Blu-Ray in the United States very soon.

ihorror reports: “In an e-mail sent out this week, Felsher revealed that the Creepshow documentary is headed to Blu-ray courtesy of Synapse, and though he didn’t mention a date, he did note that brand new special features will be included. He also provided us with our first look at the release art.”

“There is going to be a formal announcement from the distributor of JUST DESSERTS coming very soon,” Felsher wrote. “However to try to make up for not being as pro-active with these updates as I should have been, I will give everyone here a sneak peak at the cover art, designed by Artist Joel Robinson. Also I can reveal that the distributor will be none other than Synapse Films. Please don’t deluge them with a lot of questions at this point though. They will be releasing a press release soon enough with additional information that should answer a lot of questions.”


Ep 56: Long Walking Back To 11/22/63

Posted: March 24, 2016, 23:33
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With your hosts - longtime Constant Readers - Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 56 of The Stephen King Podcast!

Your co-hosts Hans Lilja & Lou Sytsma check out the next book from the Stephen King Revisted site which was The Long Walk.

Here are the links to posts about their revisit:

The Long Walk (1979) [by Richard Bachman]

Historical Essay By Bev Vincent

Richard’s Thoughts By Richard Chizmar

Guest Essay by Ed Gorman

We look at Episodes 3 and 4 of the Hulu TV miniseries.

If you want to hear our thoughts about the first two episodes, check out the Books Vs Movies podcast where we were guests.

As always, we bring you the latest Stephen King news which includes a long discussion about the latest Dark Tower movie news as it is finally going to production.

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:
1) FaceBook - Lilja's Library 2) Audio Message - Speak Pipe widget on the right hand of the podcast page (send voicemail)

In this podcast:
1) 00:00 - Intro
2) 01:01 - Podcast Setup
3) 02:16 - From The Death Room - The Latest Stephen King News
4) 56:25 - Reviews From The Night Shift - 11.22.63 - Ep 3 & 4
5) 1:24:37 - Stephen King Revisited - The Long Walk
6) 1:46:59 - Sign Off
7) 1:49:32 - Outro



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Josh Boone Talks Revival

Posted: March 24, 2016, 22:32
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Josh Boone talks about Revival in an new interview.

In the meantime, Boone has another King-based project that’s being fast-tracked to the screen: Revival. He enthused, “[T]hat one is ready to go. My line producer, production designer, and VFX supervisor from Fault budgeted the film. Michael De Luca is producing, which is amazing. He produced The Social Network, Moneyball, and Captain Phillips; but he also wrote John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, so he’s a secret horror nerd like us. Unlike these studio projects we’re working [on]–The Stand, Vampire Chronicles, New Mutants–where there are so many voices chiming in, we’ve been able to develop Revival in a very pleasant bubble. I wrote it on spec, and we are putting together the financing now. Very exciting. I think it’s one of King’s very best books.”

Source: Dread Central

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Josh Boone Talks The Stand

Posted: March 24, 2016, 22:29
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Josh Boone talks about The Stand in an new interview.

Now, as for The Stand, which has been in the works for quite some time, Boone explained, “We’re working on it. The reason The Stand hasn’t been made yet is because it’s expensive. It’s a problem of perception, I think. We really are attempting to revive the idea of the elevated horror film–movies like The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining–A-list films with A-list casts. The 1980s really killed this idea because studios realized you could make horror films for dirt cheap and make a killing. In theory, every studio wants to make The Stand. It’s a bona fide American classic. It should be an event movie. A big, serious-minded epic with an awe-inspiring cast that is as faithful as possible to King’s narrative and intentions. This should be The Godfather of post-apocalyptic epics. I adapted the book and have King’s blessing. We got that awe-inspiring cast. But [Warner Bros.] didn’t want to spend what it would actually cost to make the movie. To have a real conversation about making this film at a level that is appropriate for the book King wrote is an 85- to-100-million-dollar conversation, which from where I’m sitting sounds like a no-brainer considering the mind-numbing nonsense that studios spend $250 million on. Which brings me back to that perception problem. They look at The Stand and wonder why they can’t make this post-apocalyptic horror movie for $35 million. King and I were most excited and continue to be most excited about a single three-hour event movie: The Godfather of post-apocalyptic movies.”

Does he have any studios in mind? “My hope is that we’ll go make that movie with Lionsgate,” Boone said. “My adaptation is incredibly faithful to King’s book, but the way I was able to contain all of it in a single three-hour film is: I shattered King’s structure and told the story non-linear. That was really what broke everything open for me. The opening scene is Mother Abigail on her deathbed sending our heroes off to make their stand against the Dark Man in Vegas, and then we jump back in time and you basically have three spinning timelines going the whole movie–Captain Trips, Boulder, and The Stand, same as the book, but they are all happening simultaneously. Sequences that fall hundreds of pages apart in the book stand side-by-side in the film, echoing and resonating in new and strange ways. I remain incredibly excited about that script. I can’t wait to make it. The Stand is the movie of a lifetime so I’m completely content waiting until someone gives us exactly what we need to do it right rather than to compromise.”

Source: Dread Central

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

End of Watch Is Coming Soon!

Posted: March 22, 2016, 16:20
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The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear… ‘I’m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. I’d like you to come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you, if she’s available…’

Retired Detective Bill Hodges now runs a two-person firm called Finders Keepers with his partner Holly Gibney. They met in the wake of the ‘Mercedes Massacre’ when a queue of people were run down by the diabolical killer Brady Hartsfield.

Brady is now confined to Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, in an unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: the evidence suggests that Brady is somehow awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.

When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city.

The clock is ticking in unexpected ways …

Both a stand-alone novel of heart-pounding suspense and a sublimely terrifying final episode in the Hodges trilogy, End of Watch takes the series into a powerful new dimension.

Children of the Corn: Runaway Filming Now

Posted: March 22, 2016, 09:24
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Dreadcentral reorts about a new Children of the Corn movie.

Children of the Corn: Runaway is currently being shot in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with John Gulager (Feast) directing a script penned by Joel Soisson (Children of the Corn: Genesis). Filming is reportedly going to wrap on April 2nd.

The franchise’s tenth installment follows a young pregnant woman who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She then spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town…but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Tying the new film into the 2009 Children of the Corn remake, the main character is Malachai’s girlfriend, Ruth.

If you haven't seen the first films this is what you should look for.



Children of the Corn (1984)
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993)
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011)

And the remake:
Children of the Corn (2009)

Jake Chambers Cast

Posted: March 10, 2016, 22:53
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Entertainment Weekly reports that Tom Taylor has been cast as Jake Chambers in The Dark Tower Movie.

Sources close to the production have confirmed to EW that newcomer Tom Taylor will play the key role of Jake Chambers, a young boy who Roland crosses paths with in the series’ first book on his hunt of the man in black. Taylor previously appeared in the BBC series Doctor Foster and also showed up in the now-cancelled TNT series, Legends, as the younger version of Sean Bean’s protagonist, Martin Odum.


Read more here.

Thanks to Hans von Wirth

Update on King's End of Watch Book Tour

Posted: March 9, 2016, 22:10
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Below is the list of confirmed bookstores that will be sponsoring Stephen’s appearances. The format for these venues will be on-stage conversations and there will not be a book signing. Stephen will be pre-signing 400 books for each store that will be given out randomly at the event. More details will be released as they become available.

June 7 WORD Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ
June 8 Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley, PA
June 9 Books & Co., Dayton, OH
June 10 Taylor Books, Charleston, WV
June 11 Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
June 12 Carmichael’s Books, Louisville, KY
June 13 Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA
June 14 Bookworm, Omaha, NE
June 15 Booksmart, Tulsa, OK
June 16 Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM
June 17 The King’s English, Salt Lake City, UT
June 18 Barnes & Noble, Reno, NV

Meeting The King

Posted: March 9, 2016, 10:36
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You are standing eye to eye with King. He is signing your book. What would you say?

I have met King twice. The first time was in London 2006 when he promoted Lisey’s Story. I actually met him 5 times during his stay in London. The first time was at a book signing. Here is what was said:


King: Hi How are you?
Lilja: Fine and you?
King: Fine.
Lilja: Are your hand tired?
King: No it’s OK, it’s on autopilot.

Pretty lame I know…


The second time was at a reading he did and there was also a book signing after. Here much wasn’t said since it was very fast paced. A lot of fans that wanted to get books signed.

The third time was definitely the best one. It was at a publishing party and here I got to shake King’s hand, take a photo and say:

It’s a real honor to finally meet you!

King replied: It’s an honor to meet you to.

The fourth time I met King was at a press conference he did for the book where I actually got to ask him a question (the last one before the press conference was over). At the reading King had mention that he was releasing a new Bachman book and I asked what it’s title would be and as far as I know this is the first time King confirmed that it was Blaze. I also got a book signed.

The fifth and last time was at yet another signing. This time I didn’t say anything to King except “Thanks” and extracted my hand. At the same second he reached for his glass of Coke and there was a second of total confusion. Then he put forward his left hand and I shook that...

The next time I met King was in Hamburg 2013. Here I went to a reading but also a Meet & Greet with King. At the Meet & Greet I got two books signed and once again took a photo with King and shooke his hand. Not much was said here except "Thanks" since there wasn’t much time for each fan but it was once again fun to meet King. At the reading he told us about the idea that later turnd into the story That Bus is Another World.


If you want to read more about these meetings you can do so here:
London 2006
Hamburg 2013

Now it’s your turn. Have you met King? What did you say to him and what did he reply? If you haven’t seen him and are planning to go to any of the events this summer, do you have anything special you want to say to him?

See where King will appear this summer

King Will Do Book Tour For End of Watch

Posted: March 8, 2016, 16:20
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King will be doing a book tour to promote End of Watch in June. Here are the cities and dates.

June 7 Jersey City, NJ
June 8 Sewickley, PA
June 9 Dayton, OH
June 10 Charleston, WV
June 11 Nashville, TN
June 12 Louisville, KY
June 13 Iowa City, IA
June 14 Omaha, NE
June 15 Tulsa, OK
June 16 Albuquerque, NM
June 17 Salt Lake City, UT
June 18 Reno, NV

Where Would You Like To Get Your King News?

Posted: March 7, 2016, 14:08
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What social media are you using? Is there any other that you would like to get all your King news? Or maybe a different kind of King news? Lilja's Library are currently present on facebook, twitter, Instagram (at least a little) and as a podcast. Do you wish we were elsewhere and if so where? Let me know!

Dark Tower Movie Has New Releasedate

Posted: March 5, 2016, 20:03
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Sony Pictures has announced a slight shuffle in their 2017 release schedule and moved The Dark Tower back a month. New release date is now February 17, 2017.

The Dark Tower, which it was recently revealed will begin production in seven weeks in South Africa, has moved from its original release date of January 13, 2017 to February 17, 2017. An adaptation of the Stephen King novel series, the film will open against Universal Pictures and
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Legendary Pictures’ The Great Wall and 20th Century Fox’s Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Nikolaj Arcel will direct the film which stars Idris Elba as Roland “The Gunslinger” Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the evil Man in black.

Source: Coming Soon.

Thanks to Rick Urban.

Do You Want To Help...Again?

Posted: March 4, 2016, 15:10
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Sorry to push this on you again but this will be the last time for now.

First I want to thank everyone how donated this past week. I have sent you individual mails thanking for the donations but again, thank you. I will put your money to good use.

Secondly, I could still use a few more donations. I would like to spread the word about Lilja’s Library even more but it costs…more than I want to think about. So, I’ll ask one more time for donations and then do the best I can with what I got.

I offer a convenient way to make a donation via Paypal.com. Just click on this link and fill in the amount.

Here is a thought. If just everyone that follows Lilja’s Library on facebook donated $1 I could do a lot, and I mean a lot, of promotion for the site…just saying… :-)

Thanks! / Lilja

Original post:

While I have never charged anything for anything on Lilja's Library since I started the site 20 years ago back in 1996, and never will in the future (no matter how long that is), it do cost to run a website. And it also cost to make it grow even more, which I would like it to do. So that is why I turn to you, my faithful readers, for your help. I want to make Lilja’s Library even bigger than it is today. Why? Well, the bigger the site is the easier it is to get access to things and to people and by getting that I can give you even more news, info, contests and exclusives about King than I do today.

So, since I don't believe in having to pay for information on the Internet I make between almost nothing and very little money on Lilja's Library. Yet I'm hoping that you would like to repay your enjoyment of Lilja's Library by making a donation. It can be as big or as small as you feel you can afford and think Lilja's Library deserves, no donation is too small, or too big :-)

By making a support donation to Lilja's Library you are supporting my efforts to keep the site up to date and to make it grow and be even bigger than it is today. Lilja’s Library has been around for 20 years and I still have a lot I want to do with it…but that means I needs money. All proceeds (100%) from any donations are utilized exclusively for the ongoing maintenance, support, development and growth of Lilja's Library.

I do however want to make it perfectly clear that if not one of you donate a single $ it won’t mean that the site will roll over and die. It doesn’t mean that I won’t do all I can to keep making Lilja’s Library the #1 Stephen King site. Donations will however make it easier for me to do all these things.

I offer a convenient way to make a donation via Paypal.com. Just click on this link and fill in the amount.

Thank you!
Lilja

We Have A Winner!

Posted: March 4, 2016, 08:34
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We have a winner in The Secretary of Dreams contest and her name is Michelle Favilla. The reason I selected her is that her motivation to her best Lilja’s Library moment is exactly what this site is all about. It’s the reason I keep running the site after 20 years…and probably will for a lot more years to come. Congratulations Michelle and thanks for putting my intentions into words!

I love when you asked people to share photos holding Mr. Mercedes, Revival, and Finders Keepers. By doing that, you made your page so much more than just about your thoughts, interactions, and news about Stephen King. You included us! You made us feel important and we got a glimpse of some of your followers that share our interests. I feel connected to your followers who share the same passion (obsession?) that I have with all things Stephen King. There are very few people in my personal life that understand or care about my interest in SK. I know that I can post, comment or look to your page to see, read, and hear more about one of the people I love dearly with no judgement, questions, or ridicule. Here, we find pure acceptance and excitement. Here, it's ok to nerd-out! In a world where reading has taken a backseat, you bring us together to common ground. Thank you.

King Loves Kim Novak

Posted: March 4, 2016, 00:04
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Stephen King confesses his early love for Kim Novak in "Beautiful," an original essay that will appear in a new anthology of stories about celebrity crushes next month.

Read part of it here.

The Dark Tower Confirmations

Posted: March 1, 2016, 16:26
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A lot of stuff has not been confirmed about The Dark Tower movie:

- Nikolaj Arcel will start shooting the movie in South Africa in seven weeks.

- The Premier date is January 13 2017.

- The first movie won’t be based on the first book. Based on clues given by Arcel it’ll probably be based on the third book, The Waste Lands.

- Idris Elba is confirmed to play Roland.

- Matthew McConaughey is based to play The Man in Black.

- Abbey Lee will likely play Tirana.

“The thing is, it’s been a looong trip from the books to the film,” King says, putting it right in context: “When you think about it, I started these stories as a senior in college, sitting in a little sh-tty cabin beside the river in Maine, and finally this thing is actually in pre-production now.” He laughs. “I’m delighted, and I’m a little bit surprised.”

About the movie not being based on the first book.

King says the movie will open with the first line from the first book. “It should start that way,” he says. “I’ve been pretty insistent about that.”

“[The movie] starts in media res, in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning, which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they’ll get behind it, because it is the story,” King says.

Arcel declined to specify which books his movie focus on, but he did offer this clue: “A lot of it takes place in our day, in the modern world.”

King and Arcel on Elba.

The author, who raves about Elba’s recent work in the child-soldier drama Beasts of No Nation, says he hopes fans of the books have no problem accepting a man of color as Roland. “For me the character is still the character. It’s almost a Sergio Leone character, like ‘the man with no name,’” King says. “He can be white or black, it makes no difference to me. I think it opens all kind of exciting possibilities for the backstory.”

Arcel acknowledges that skin color actually was an important factor in the relationship between Roland and Susannah, the black amputee he drew into his world from her life in 1964. In the books, she is not thrilled to find herself yanked into another dimension by a grizzled white guy. “Some fans are asking, understandably, ‘What about the racial tension?’” Arcel says. “But as the story progresses that will be made clear, how we’ll deal with all those things.”

Some Tweets...



Read the full article here.

Thanks to Alex Maidy‎.

Do You Want To Help?

Posted: March 1, 2016, 12:15
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While I have never charged anything for anything on Lilja's Library since I started the site 20 years ago back in 1996, and never will in the future (no matter how long that is), it do cost to run a website. And it also cost to make it grow even more, which I would like it to do. So that is why I turn to you, my faithful readers, for your help. I want to make Lilja’s Library even bigger than it is today. Why? Well, the bigger the site is the easier it is to get access to things and to people and by getting that I can give you even more news, info, contests and exclusives about King than I do today.

So, since I don't believe in having to pay for information on the Internet I make between almost nothing and very little money on Lilja's Library. Yet I'm hoping that you would like to repay your enjoyment of Lilja's Library by making a donation. It can be as big or as small as you feel you can afford and think Lilja's Library deserves, no donation is too small, or too big :-)

By making a support donation to Lilja's Library you are supporting my efforts to keep the site up to date and to make it grow and be even bigger than it is today. Lilja’s Library has been around for 20 years and I still have a lot I want to do with it…but that means I needs money. All proceeds (100%) from any donations are utilized exclusively for the ongoing maintenance, support, development and growth of Lilja's Library.

I do however want to make it perfectly clear that if not one of you donate a single $ it won’t mean that the site will roll over and die. It doesn’t mean that I won’t do all I can to keep making Lilja’s Library the #1 Stephen King site. Donations will however make it easier for me to do all these things.

I offer a convenient way to make a donation via Paypal.com. Just click on this link and fill in the amount.

Thank you!
Lilja

Ep. 55: The Stand - Revisited

Posted: February 29, 2016, 15:18
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With your hosts - longtime Constant Readers - Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 55 of The Stephen King Podcast!

Your co-hosts Hans Lilja & Lou Sytsma check out the next book from the Stephen King Revisted site which was The Stand.

Here are the links to posts about their revisit:

The Stand (1978)

Historical Essay by Bev Vincent

Richard’s Thoughts by Richard Chizmar

Guest Essay by Josh Boone - director attached to The Stand and Revival.

We thought this would be an excellent time to rewatch the 1994 ABC TV mini-series based on the book too. So join us as we revisit The Stand.


As always, we bring you the latest Stephen King news.

Special thanks to listener Lance Grey for sending in his thoughts about the stage play of Misery starring Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf.

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:

1) FaceBook - Lilja's Library

2) Audio Message - Speak Pipe widget on the right hand of the podcast page (send voicemail)


In this podcast:

1) 00:00 - Intro
2) 01:01 - Podcast Setup
3) 01:51 - From The Death Room - The Latest Stephen King News
4) 28:09 - Reviews From The Night Shift - The Stand: Revisited
5) 1:17:54 - Sign Off
6) 1:19:45 - Outro



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Lilja's Library Highlight: February 27

Posted: February 27, 2016, 12:00
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ON THIS DAY IN 2002...

...the first episode (of three) of Rose Red aired on ABC. The other two aired on February 28 and 29.

The Talisman 3 At Least 2 Years Away

Posted: February 27, 2016, 00:44
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In an interview with Miami Herald Peter Straub talks about the third book in The Talisman series and it looks like we won't see it in atleas a couple of years...

Q. So is there any truth to the rumors that a third “Talisman” book is forthcoming?

I certainly hope so. It’s totally dependent on the patience of my saintly collaborator, Steve King. We were supposed to start it three or four years ago, but I had medical problems that stopped me in my tracks. Then I had problems with a book I was doing … so we’re no closer to being able to start it. But part of the reason he’s so patient is we have a great idea for the book. I won’t tell you what it is, but there was a famous story that happened in the world when we were young. He kept a scrapbook about it and so did I, him in Maine and me in Milwaukee. It has a lot of juice in it, and he and I both feel that way about it, so we are eager to do this book. I think he’ll cut me a break and let me go a year or two and then we’ll start working on it.


Thanks to Rick Urban

Mist on TV

Posted: February 25, 2016, 23:16
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Looks like The Mist is headed for the small screen.

Spike has reportedly ordered a pilot episode for The Mist, which will retain the initial premise of King’s 1980 novella by telling the story of a small town consumed by an otherworldly mist while monstrous creatures roam freely. TV veteran Christian Torpe—best known for creating the Danish series Rita—is slated to write and executive produce.

Source: Deadline

Thanks to Douglas Dowie and Ariel Bosi

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30th anniversary wishes

King calendar

April 21, 2026:
Monsters in the Archives
2026:
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