To date, Stephen King has published 65 novels, 11 collections, five non-fiction books, and over 200 short stories. That’s all without including the screenplays, the adaptations, the essays, and the list goes on. For Constant Readers, it can be overwhelming trying to keep tabs on all things that serve the beam that is King’s Dominion. […]
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Author and essayist Bev Vincent is back with a brand new book: Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences. Chock full of archival photos and materials dusted straight from King’s own personal collection, this chronological deep dive into the best-selling author’s life and work is one of those big books you […]
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“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.” By 2002, Stephen King had more than bounced back from his 1999 accident. He put his stamp on the e-book with both The Plant and Riding the Bullet, revisited sci-fi with the hallucinatory […]
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With their Bag of Bones mailbag episodes, The Losers’ Club answers questions submitted by their Overlook patrons. Each Bag features 19 assorted Qs that traditionally range from absurd to essential, genius to gross, and weird to wild. As such these are freewheelin’ outings for the gang that are as unpredictable as they are hilarious — […]
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By closing the book on 1999’s Hearts in Atlantis, The Losers’ Club have finally reached the end of Stephen King‘s prolific run in the ’90s. That means it’s time to hand out some awards. Constant Listeners, you are cordially invited to another round of The Kingies – a night where the Losers celebrate the best […]
Five years ago, a bunch of friends in Chicago gathered around a single Yeti microphone and spent a few hours talking about Stephen King‘s first novel, Carrie. Two weeks later, they dusted off ‘Salem’s Lot. Then The Shining. Hell, they even covered Rage, King’s first novel under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. To their surprise, it […]
In 1986, Stephen King was over horror. By then, he had given us killer teens, killer cars, killer cats, and killer vamps. No, despite the demand and the stack of receipts to prove it, The Master of Horror was hankering to close the door on the genre he conquered — only he didn’t see it […]
Tough times for the Losers. Writer’s block is never easy and the Club has decided to nurse their creative woes with a quick cabin trip to Dark Score Lake. (Some locals have been known to call it “Sara Laughs.”) Rest assured, this will get ugly. Published in 1998 on the day after the author’s 51st […]
Curses. Mysteries. Murder. The streets of Shadyside are stained with blood and the teens are always in danger. This is the perilous world of R.L. Stine’s Fear Street, the ’90s young adult series that inspired an entire generation of readers to vanish into the stacks in search of the spooky. Naturally, many of them became […]