NEWS - THE OUTSIDER

Fans Get The Outsider

Posted: July 6, 2018, 10:25:17

Stephen King’s The Outsider, is out and you know what that means…

I want to put together a page with photos of you all and your copy of The Outsider. All you need to do is send me a photo (this should open an email but if it doesn’t, send the photo to info[a]liljas-library.com) of yourself and the book (any edition works) and I’ll post them here. If you don’t want to send it by email you can also post it on the facebook page and I’ll grab it there. I would also like to ask you to include your name, town and country so that I can list that with the photo. You can see what it will look like at the Mr Mercedes page, the Revival page, the Finders Keepers page, Bazzar of Bad Dreams page, End of Watch page, Charlie the Choo Choo page, Gwendy’s Button Box page or the Sleeping Beauties Book page

Check out all the The Outsider photos here.

Let's get those photos collected! Some of you are even on all pages, GOOD WORK!

King At The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

Posted: May 24, 2018, 13:49:08

King at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert yesterday.

King On CBS

Posted: May 22, 2018, 15:28:19

Check out King's apperance on earlier this morning.

Today's Events

Posted: May 22, 2018, 10:30:50

Don't forget today's events:


CBS This Morning
Stephen’s interview is expected to air at 8:40 am ET but this is a best guess and could be before or after that time. Check your local listings for information about when CBS This Morning airs in your area.

PEN America Literary Gala
Stephen will be conferred with the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award. PEN America’s Literary Gala will be livestreamed on their Facebook page from 8-10 PM ET here.

My Review Of The Outsider

Posted: May 22, 2018, 00:12:00

Here is my review of The Outsider.

Outsider Excerpt

Posted: May 21, 2018, 09:21:09

Here is an excerpt from The Outsider, out tomorrow.

4 Days!

Posted: May 18, 2018, 18:10:30

4 Days until The Outsider arrives!



King Appearances

Posted: May 18, 2018, 12:08:40

Here are the appearances King will do to promote The Outsider.


Upcoming Appearances and More

May 18th
Entertainment Weekly
The May 25th issue of Entertainment Weekly contains an excerpt from THE OUTSIDER, and it will be available May 18th. Read an excerpt of THE OUTSIDER online and in the magazine.

May 22nd
CBS This Morning
Stephen’s interview is expected to air at 8:40 am ET but this is a best guess and could be before or after that time. Check your local listings for information about when CBS This Morning airs in your area.

PEN America Literary Gala
Stephen will be conferred with the 2018PEN America Literary Service Award. PEN America’s Literary Gala will be livestreamed on their Facebook page from 8-10 PM ET here.

May 23rd
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Check your local listings for information about when The Late Show airs in your area.

Will Patton To Narrate The Outsider

Posted: April 13, 2018, 20:13:53

Simon & Schuster has announced that Will Patton will narrator the audiobook edition of The Outsider, available on CD and for download on May 22nd, 2018.


Thanks to Bev Vincent.

An Excerpt From The Outsider

Posted: March 21, 2018, 11:39:13

Here (scroll down a bit) is an excerpt from The Outsider.

Front & back Cover For The Outsider

Posted: March 19, 2018, 13:16:47

Here are the front and back cover for the US edition of The Outsider.

UK Cover For The Outsider

Posted: February 9, 2018, 19:55:52

Here is the UK cover for The Outsider. What do you think?


And here you can see an animated version of it.

The Outsider Extract

Posted: January 31, 2018, 13:26:29

Hodder & Stoughton has released an extract from The Outsider. Check it out here.


Thanks to Herbert West

The Outsider

Posted: January 18, 2018, 20:31:21

Here’s the cover for the upcoming The Outsider.


What do you think? Good or bad?

The Outsider To Be Released On May 22

Posted: December 25, 2017, 20:10:41

The Outsider has been moved to a May 22nd release.

Outsider, Elevation & One More Book In 2018?

Posted: December 23, 2017, 02:14:44

In this interview with EW King talks about all the things that happened in 2017 and what’s coming in 2018:

The Outsider: Out in May according to King (Scribner has it listed for June)

Another book that doesn’t have a title yet that’s done.

Elevation: A novella that’s longer than Gwendy’s Button Box and also about Castle Rock, in some ways, it’s almost like a sequel to Gwendy’s Button Box that will come out in some form.

Looks like there will be a great 2108!

Thanks to Cody Williams

The Outsider Out In The UK June 5

Posted: November 14, 2017, 11:43:54

Today Hodder & Stoughton announced that they will release King's next book The Outsider on June 5 2018.


Coming June 2018...

On 5 June 2018, Hodder will publish an exciting new novel from Stephen King. The Outsider is a compelling and chilling suspense novel which will delight readers of King’s bestselling Hodges trilogy.

Following the phenomenal success of his Bill Hodges series, Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch, all Number 1 bestsellers, Stephen King has written an unputdownable crime thriller with a unique twist.

When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered, forensic evidence and reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach. But the jailed suspect, arrested in a public spectacle, has an alibi, and further research convinces Detective Ralph Anderson that the coach was indeed out of town. So how can he have been in two places at the same time?

‘King works his customary storytelling magic, unspooling the plot threads almost as quickly as readers can turn the pages’ – Daily Mail on End of Watch

Pre-Order your copy here.

Please note that the cover isn't the finished one.

Updated Plot Description Of The Outsider

Posted: October 16, 2017, 08:33:40

Here is an updated plot description of The Outsider, Out June 5th.


An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

Pre-order here

The Outsider To Be Released June 5

Posted: October 10, 2017, 22:39:40

Simon & Schuster has announced King's next book; The Outsider. The book will be released on June 5, 2018. Here is what they say about it on their site.


The Outsider
By Stephen King
From #1 New York Times bestseller Stephen King, whose brand has never been stronger, comes one of his most propulsive and unsettling stories ever.

An eleven-year-old boy is found in a town park, hideously assaulted and murdered. The fingerprints (and later DNA) are unmistakably those of the town’s most popular baseball coach, Terry Maitland, a man of impeccable reputation, with a wife and two daughters. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland coached, orders an immediate and public arrest. Maitland is taken to jail, his claim to innocence scorned. Maitland has a foolproof alibi, with footage to prove that he was in another city when the crime was committed. But that doesn't save him either.

King constructs a propulsive plot, and a race against time to uncover the identity of a terrifying and diabolical killer who has left victims—and “perpetrators”—across the country, and who is on his way to his next horrific act.

King’s psychological suspense is at its most riveting in this extraordinarily dramatic and eerie story. He is devastatingly vivid on the experience of being falsely blamed—the effect on the accused, the spouse, the children; the suspicion of friends, even the most loyal; the impossibility of ever being innocent again (if you are lucky to enough to live). He is also masterful at showing us that supernatural monsters are startlingly like human beings who do monstrous things.

Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Scribner (June 5, 2018)
Pre-order here

Thanks to everyone who brought this to my attention

Unconfirmed News About The Outsider

Posted: October 1, 2017, 21:55:23

Some in the audience at Stephen & Owen's stop in Milwaukee reported that Stephen revealed that he has a new book done that's to be released in June called The Outsider. Stephen said it was about some southwest gentleman committing some murders. He also said there would be a character we would recognize...

Please note that this (specially the release date) is unconfirmed news.


And here Is a report feom Naperville.

The Outsider; New King Book

Posted: August 9, 2017, 19:49:45

In a Q&A with USA Today King reveals that his next book is called The Outsider. No release date was revealed but a guess is 2018.

Anything you want to spill about The Outsider?

Nope. Well, there’s a lot of things I want to say about that, but I can’t. It’s too cool to talk about right now. All I can say is it won’t be out in 2017 because I’ve got enough going on.

Source: USA Today

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

Holly Gibney IS Back

Posted: September 29, 2016, 08:59:33

Here is an interview with King from the 2016 National Book Festival where he confirms that Holly Gibney from The Bill Hodges Trilogy is back. King has said earlier that one of the characters would return and now she is. King is working on the book now but we don’t know anything about a release date…yet.


There is one in the process now that deals with one of the characters from the Mr Mercedes trilogy that's outright scary.




Thanks to Lou Sytsma

One More Mr Mercedes Book?

Posted: September 24, 2016, 16:49:35

Beeng interviewed Live on Facebook for the National Book Festival King said the following about a book his working on now.

There is one in the process now that deals with one of the characters from the Mr Mercedes trilogy that's outright scary.

Watch the interview here.

Click for more info!