For many years, fans have asked Stephen King those obligatory questions that every writer gets. “Where do you get your ideas?” “Why do you write?” “How long does it take you to write a novel?” After years of writing bestselling fiction, Stephen King finally offers fans the answers to those very questions as well as … Read More …
Pet Sematary by Stephen King Review
In On Writing, Stephen King tells of how many of the horrors within the pages of his novels come from his own fears. He recalls the story of an incident involving his own child. When his own child almost made it into the path of an oncoming vehicle, King could not silence the idea of … Read More …
Rage by Richard Bachman / Stephen King Review
Rage is quite possibly one of the most controversial works that Stephen King has written to date, though it didn’t start out that way. The story surrounds Charlie Decker, a senior in high school, who one day decides to bring a gun to school and shoot a teacher, Mrs. Underwood. However, in the course of … Read More …
The Regulators by Richard Bachman / Stephen King Review
In 1996, Stephen King published two novels simultaneously. Desperation and The Regulators, the latter being published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. Having seemingly put his alter ego to rest with the novel, The Dark Half, King resurrected Bachman in order to publish two novels that would coincide with each other. The story begins in what … Read More …
Riding the Bullet by Stephen King
Riding the Bullet, like The Plant, was originally released on the web in digital format. The novella, now included in the Everything’s Eventual collection, was Stephen King’s first venture with internet publishing and, unlike The Plant, was made into a made-for-television movie like many of King’s other fictional works such as The Stand and, more … Read More …
Roadwork by Richard Bachman / Stephen King Review
Roadwork is yet another novel penned by Stephen King under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. There is something more dark and sinister within the Bachman books than with King’s more popular works. Whether this is a trick of the mind convincing the reader that there is another personality penning the works of Bachman within Stephen … Read More …
Rose Madder by Stephen King Review
Within a span of four years, Stephen King wrote three novels that involved three different female characters overcoming oppressive male characters. In Delores Claiborne, the title character successfully stopped her husband from continuing to molest their daughter. In Gerald’s Game, Jessie Burlingame effectively, though not easily, rids herself of a husband who treats her as … Read More …
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Review
The most riveting Stephen King tales play on the themes of loneliness and isolation and Salem’s Lot is no exception. King takes the apocalyptic tone of The Stand and places it in the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, a fictional town that was also the title of King’s 1978 short story in the Night … Read More …
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King Review
Skeleton Crew is Stephen King’s second collection of short stories following the publication of his first successful short story collection, Night Shift. The collection also includes the King classic short, The Mist, which was later turned into a theatrical audio book featuring what claimed to be “3D sound.” The Mist itself surrounds a group of … Read More …
Song of Susannah – Dark Tower 6 Review
There’s a belief among fiction writers that, if an author is truly talented, he injects just enough of himself into his work to not be intrusive, yet to be honest and make the story itself come to life. Song of Susannah is a novel, the sixth installment of the Dark Tower series to be exact, … Read More …