It’s been a good year for Stephen King. We’re used to the prolific horror author releasing multiple books per year, and 2025 was no different, with Never Flinch and Hansel and Gretel, a collaboration with the late illustrator Maurice Sendak, both hitting Bestseller lists. But we’re not usually treated to so many different titles from […]
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When Stephen King first wrote The Running Man in 1973, the year 2025 felt like it would never come. The author was an angry young man living in the midst of turbulent times and trying to find his way in an unforgiving world. Writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King created a dystopian 2025 in […]
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*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* This was a great year for horror in all forms, but if you like your horror on the page, it was an especially exhilarating 2025. Many of the best horror writers in the game produced amazing books this year, some of them outright masterpieces, […]
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The Losers head to the tropics for Stephen King‘s You Like It Darker. Join Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, Justin Gerber, and Dan Caffrey as they rank all 12 stories within King’s 2024 collection — from the hard-hitting novella Two Talented Bastids to the harrowing Cujo sequel “Rattlesnakes” to the soul searching sendoff “The Answer […]
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All good things come to an end… To close out the first quarter of this century, the Halloweenies have hit the archives to revisit all the horror movies released between 2000 to 2025. After careful consideration, they’ve made their lists, checked them twice, and given them to Santa Gerber to collate them all into a […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It and It: Welcome to Derry Constant Readers and fans of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It know that “no one who dies in Derry ever really dies.” That’s the eerie aphorism shared with Losers’ Club member Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) as she sips tea with the deceptively monstrous Mrs. […]
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The 1979 adaptation of Stephen King‘s Salem’s Lot will be released on 4K Ultra HD on March 31 via Arrow Video. Both the original two-part miniseries and the truncated international theatrical cut have been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision and original lossless mono audio. Disc 1 – Miniseries Version: Two viewing modes: Play […]
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Stephen King adaptations are notoriously tricky. With more than seventy novels and novellas to his name, not to mention 200 short stories, the Master of Horror’s expansive catalogue is a tempting sandbox for horror creators. But the success rate is comparably low. What may seem conceptually straightforward — a murderous clown, haunted hotel, or killer […]
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WARNING: The Following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode eight. After seven thrilling episodes, It: Welcome to Derry concludes its inaugural season with “Winter Fire,” a powerhouse finale that effectively wraps up the town’s 1962 cycle of death and destruction while peppering in shrewd connections to Stephen King’s larger body of work. With Pennywise […]
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After releasing in theaters last month, Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) The Running Man heads home to Digital this week. The Running Man arrives on Digital on December 16 with over two ours of bonus content. In a near-future society, ‘The Running Man’ is the top-rated show on television—a deadly […]
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Following its finale last night on HBO, the first season of “IT: Welcome to Derry” is available on Digital now and will be released on Steelbook 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 5, 2026 via Warner Bros. Serving as a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s IT films based on Stephen King‘s classic novel, the series […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry. Horror fans love a killer clown. HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry has taken the world by storm with a deft blend of heartstopping terror and comforting nostalgia surrounding a solid emotional core. Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård) returns to terrorize the children of […]
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WARNING: The Following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode six. As we near the first season finale of It: Welcome to Derry, classic references to Stephen King’s 1986 novel abound. Episode 6, “In the Name of the Father,” sees the 1962 version of the Losers’ Club begin to solidify, placing these likeable characters […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Stranger Things 5: Volume I. Stranger Things has always existed as a child of two worlds. Netflix’s nostalgic adventure series effortlessly straddles genre lines while referencing beloved sci-fi, horror, and fantasy texts. Emerging from a deft blend of 80s adventure films and vintage Stephen King novels, each installment […]
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WARNING: The Following contains major spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode five. As promised in last week’s installment of It: Welcome to Derry, episode five, “29 Neibolt Street,” not only takes us inside the notorious house, but also into the sewers below. Though Hallorann (Chris Chalk) and team may arrive via the house’s namesake […]
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