I got a copy of an unbound proof of Granta 117 with King’s short story The Dune in it in the mail today. Granta 117 will be out in October and you can preorder from both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. Look for a review here soon...
Tonight at 8 p.m. (ET) on TCM, King discusses how he discovered terror at the movie theater in A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King. You can also check out an interview with the man who interviews King on the show here.
Today at 2PM / 1C AMC launched the six part webisodes exploring the back story of our favorite Zombie from season 1, Bicycle Girl. But if you, like me, want a sneak peak you can get so now. AMC has released 10 photos from the webisodes. Check them out here
TheDarkTower.org is producing a very cool, very exclusive and very limited collectible case for the first trade edition of The Shining that you definitely need to check out!
TheDarkTower.org is proud to be the EXCLUSIVE site to order and purchase a new, unique and fine Collectible case for your First Trade Edition of “The Shining". Glenn Chadbourne and Erin Wells are producing hand signed and Lettered, full-color original art pieces to be carefully affixed to the inside lid of each custom, hand-made Dolso wooden tray case, designed to hold the US Trade 1st edition of Stephen King's "The Shining". Each artist has created 26 "Lettered" art pieces for this series. Each art piece will be based upon a scene from "The Shining".
Not much has been said about the press kit for season 2 of The Walking Dead and I’ll admit it’s not as nice as the one for season 1 (but then again, when is a press kit that nice? Well, not very often). Still, this one is quite interesting and contains a lot of stuff about the show, and most important; the two first episodes of season2. I have a copy on its way to me as we speak (together with a copy of the special edition DVD of season 1 (released on October 4th) and I’ll let you know more about both once I have them in my hand. Until then, enjoy these photos.
I got some really nice items in the mail today that I want to show you. The first one is a copy of Stephen King is Richard Bachman by Michael Collings. Published by Overlook Connection Press. It’s a very nice book about King writing as Bachman and it also have a lot of covers of Bachman’s books from all over the world.
The other thing was the huge Dark Tower omnibus. And it’s no joke that it’s huge. And the first thing I noticed when I opened the box it was in is how beautiful it is. It’s a really beautiful book and I can’t wait to check it out. It’ll give me a chance to catch up with this comic.
If you want your own copy of it for your collection you can get it here
This info was posted on King's official message board today:
Stephen will be appearing at the JFK Library, Boston, MA, to do a reading and on-stage conversation from 1:30-2:30 PM.
All forums are free and open to the public. To make a reservation, call 617-514-1643 or go online at www.jfklibrary.org. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Once the main hall is full, seating is in an overflow theater where the forum is streamed live. Doors to the main hall open one hour before the program begins.
Mick Garris just wrote the following on his facebook wall:
Just wrapping up the shoot on BAG OF BONES before dawn, then it's off to Seattle for the gala opening of CAN'T LOOK AWAY: THE LURE OF THE HORROR FILM, an exhibition I helped work on. Big doings there on Saturday night, then it's into the editing suite.
Leading up to the highly anticipated Season 2 premiere of AMC's hit series The Walking Dead, the network is launching a special six-episode web series on AMCtv.com.
The webisodes will give fans the opportunity to explore the back story of Hannah (Lilli Birdsell), better known as "Bicycle Girl," the infamous zombie from Season 1, who was shot by Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) in the pilot episode and who is one of the most celebrated "walkers" from last season. Fans will learn about Hannah's life before the apocalypse, her struggle to survive and protect her family as the world begins to fall apart, and her ultimate demise into zombie-hood.
The web series is produced by Generate, conceived and directed by The Walking Dead Co-Executive Producer Greg Nicotero with teleplay by John Esposito.
All six webisodes debut on Mon., Oct. 3 at 2 PM | 1C on AMCtv.com
Gauntlet Press is having a sweepstakes for 3 copies of Williamson's Illustrated Masqeson their Facebook page. It's a great book and you don't wanna miss out on this. Enter here. And if you want to read more about the book you can do that here.
Here are news about King's apperance in Dallas Nov. 10.
Stephen will be appearing at The Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm Street, Dallas, TX in an on-stage conversation. This is a charity benefit for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza whose staff was instrumental in assisting Stephen with his research while writing 11/22/63. Tickets will go on-sale on Wednesday, October 5 at 9:00 a.m CT.
For more information about the Museum and this event, please visit their site at http://www.jfk.org.
Next Dark Tower comic announced:
DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER - the way station #1 (of 5)
Plot by ROBIN FURTH
Written by Peter David
Pencils & Cover by Laurence Campbell
Roland’s pursuit of the elusive Man in Black across the endless Mohaine desert becomes even more treacherous when he is attacked by a ravenous pack of desert dogs and vampiric dust devils when he is at his weakest!
It’s the start of a new chapter in the life of the last gunslinger of Gilead as he struggles to remain alive and achieve his destiny! Don’t miss the wonders of: The Way Station!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99
Dr. Sleep has now been officially announced. This was posted on King's official site today:
It's now official--Stephen is working on Dr. Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. This weekend Steve read an excerpt from this at his appearance at George Mason University. They have given us permission to post their taping of the event here on Steve's site which we will do as soon as we receive the file. Dr. Sleep's plot includes a traveling group of vampires called The Tribe which is part of the passage he read from.
Here you can pre-order 2012 years Stephen King Library Desk Calendar. I think you need to be a member though...and since I'm not I'd appreciate if someone would help me get a copy...
Check out The Walking Dead Chronicles: The Official Companion Book (Release Oct. 4, 2011). It's the only authorized, behind-the-scenes guide to season one of The Walking Dead.
Focusing on the making of the first season of the Golden Globe-nominated TV show, as well as the creation of the New York Times bestselling comic book on which the series is based, The Walking Dead Chronicles is lavishly illustrated with never-before-seen unit photography, storyboards, set designs, makeup and visual effects shots, and page-to-screen comparisons of the comic and TV show.
I don't know about you but I'll be checking this out!
I got this very interesting news from The Mason Award Event that took place last night. It appears King is almost finished writing a sequel to The Shining, Dr. Sleep. It will be about Danny Torrence as an adult and some sort of vampire like people called "The Tribe" that drive around in mobile homes and feed on psychic energy.
King read a chapter from it at the event and the nice part of it is that there is a clip of it on YouTube!
King also signed books after the event for almost 3 hours. He signed any book that people brought but only 1 book each.
The moderator of King's official board shared this wounderful news today:
The release date for The Wind Through the Keyhole has been bumped ahead and is now anticipated to be released on March 12, 2012.