Storm of the Century is unique among King’s work in that it is actually a screenplay instead of an actual novel or collection of short fiction. Originally intended to coincide with the premiere of the television miniseries of the same name, Storm of the Century provides readers a look into a format that is completely … Read More …
The Dark Tower – Dark Tower 7 by Stephen King Review
The Dark Tower is the work that King fans have waited almost a quarter of a century to read. Stephen King began the series with the first title, The Gunslinger , in 1982. With the final installment in the series that shares the novel’s namesake, The Dark Tower series , Stephen King finally brings the … Read More …
The Green Mile by Stephen King Review
In 1996, Stephen King published his first serialized novel, The Green Mile. The story was released in six slim paperbacks for under $2.00 each. Skeptics questioned whether King could convince his readers to buy into the serialized format that had, up until then, only worked for Dickens and comic books. The venture worked and, in … Read More …
The Gunslinger – Dark Tower 1 Review
In 1982, Stephen King began navigating toward penning his own epic series, The Dark Tower series, with the first novel in the series, The Gunslinger. Part Western, part fantasy, part science fiction, The Gunslinger begins an epic that would be nearly a quarter of a century in the making. Finally releasing the last installments of … Read More …
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman / Stephen King Review
The Long Walk, like The Running Man and The Regulators, is a novel that was penned under Stephen King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman. There’s something a bit more sadistic about King’s Bachman books, which may very well be why he began writing them under a penname. The Long Walk, however, might just be the most disturbing … Read More …
The Plant by Stephen King Review
The Plant was an exercise in web publishing that, for the most part, went awry. After the success of King’s first web publishing venture, Riding the Bullet, King attempted to use the honor system with his fans and offer the story in installments as an electronic download. After downloading, fans were expected to keep their … Read More …
The Running Man by Richard Bachman / Stephen King Review
Within the books written by Richard Bachman, Stephen King’s not-so-secret pen name, there is almost always an air of desperation. The Running Man is certainly no exception. One of King’s shorter novels, The Running Man is set within a dystopian future in which the poor are seen more by the government as worrisome rodents than … Read More …
The Shining by Stephen King Book Review
Of all of Stephen King’s novels, The Shining is the one that probably most benefits from its setting. Set within the Overlook Hotel in Colorado, the hotel itself becomes a foreboding character in one of King’s most frightening novels to date. A masterful work, King seems to bring the very walls of the Overlook Hotel … Read More …
The Talisman by Stephen King Review
In 1984, horror master Stephen King teamed with another conductor of creep, Peter Straub, to pen a novel by the name of The Talisman. Almost twenty years later, the novel was continued by the duo with the 2001 release of Black House which featured the character of Jack Sawyer, The Talisman’s young protagonist, now grown … Read More …
The Tommyknockers Book Review
Curiosity killed the cat and it also kills plenty of characters within The Tommyknockers, a novel that plays with both the genres of horror and science fiction. The story begins when an alien craft is unearthed by a curious resident of Haven, Maine. Soon, after being revealed, the alien craft begins emitting a gas that … Read More …