The Dark Tower

‘The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole’ Presaged Stephen King’s Drift Towards Crime Fiction [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Randall Colburn Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

In 2009, Stephen King asked his fans what they’d rather get first — a sequel to The Shining or a new Dark Tower book. They voted for Shining sequel, but the Dark Tower book came first anyway. That book? The Wind Through the Keyhole, a (relatively) trim tale that revisits our favorite gunslinger and his ka-tet in between the events […]

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Taking Inventory on the Best and Worst Stephen King Sequels [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Children Of The Corn, It!, Podcasts, Sometimes They Come Back, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Muppets

With their Bag of Bones mailbag episodes, The Losers’ Club answers questions submitted by their Overlook patrons. Each Bag features 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 — and […]

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Ranking Stephen King’s Critters: From Church to Cujo to Oy [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Cat's Eye, fairy tale, Misery, Pet Sematary, Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Stand

To celebrate 40 years of Lewis Teague’s Cujo, the Losers count down and match up to identify — and crown — the best critter in all of King’s Dominion. Watch out! The critters take control in this episode and duke it out with each other until only one remains. But never fear! No animals were […]

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Celebrating the Best of ’00s Stephen King [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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By closing the book on 2009’s Under the Dome, The Losers’ Club have finally reached the end of Stephen King‘s prolific run in the ’00s. 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 […]

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Ranking Stephen King’s Writers: From Ben Mears to Scott Landon [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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Of all the advice Stephen King offers in On Writing, “write what you know” may be the best. It’s certainly advice he follows as his vast catalogue is bursting with writers and the occasional villainous scribe. With King’s last literary outing as Richard Bachman behind them, the Losers round up all of King’s fictional writers […]

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Stephen King News Roundup: On ‘Welcome to Derry’, 4K Releases, and ‘The Wire’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

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Spring’s here, but the Summer heat is on across King’s Dominion. Once again, The Losers’ Club is putting on their shades, revving up their Plymouth Fury, and feeling the breeze in Hollywood King. It’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Michael Roffman, Justin Gerber, Rachel Reeves, and Jenn Adams cycling through the latest Stephen […]

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Stephen King 2023 Preview: The Books We’ll Read, The Movies We’ll See [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Mike Flanagan, Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

Six years, seven seasons! The journey continues… Join Losers Michael Roffman, Randall Colburn, Justin Gerber, and Jenn Adams as they share their highlights from 2022, which includes an interview with Sai King himself, and preview all the books, movies, and events they’re covering throughout 2023. They also read some Needful Tweets and visit Hollywood King […]

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From Spiders to Sneetches, Some Final Thoughts About Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ [The Losers Club Podcast]

Randall Colburn Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

And we’re back. In their second episode dedicated to The Dark Tower, the last book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower saga (that isn’t Wind Through the Keyhole), The Losers’ Club gets caught in the web of the book’s most controversial character: the child-spider Mordred. Is the hungry arachnid one of King’s most vicious villains or […]

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‘The Dark Tower VII’ Encapsulates the Best and Worst of Stephen King’s Fantasy Saga [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Randall Colburn Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

In 1978, the man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. In 2004, the gunslinger’s journey came to an end. Sort of. The Losers’ Club concludes its sprint through the final volumes of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga with an episode about, what else, 2004’s final chapter The Dark Tower VII: […]

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“The Dark Tower” – Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy Planning Epic Stephen King Adaptation

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As we learned last week, Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy‘s Intrepid Pictures is moving from Netflix to Amazon Studios, the duo inking a deal that’ll bring their future series projects exclusively to Prime. What’s next from Flanagan and Macy, you ask? Well, they just revealed to Deadline this week that they’re getting set to climb […]

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‘The Ultimate Stephen King Quiz Book’ Is a Must-Have for Constant Readers [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Horror Books, Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

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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Stephen King’s ‘Song of Susannah’ Is a Rush of Gunpowder to the Head [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Randall Colburn Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower looms, but first? Dinner at the Dixie Pig. The Losers’ Club resumes their sprint through the final volumes of The Dark Tower saga (Wind Through the Keyhole, notwithstanding) with this epic discussion about the relatively slim Song of Susannah. Released in the summer of 2004, the penultimate Dark Tower novel bounces across […]

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The Dark Tower Is Boring and More Stephen King Hot Takes [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

The Losers’ Club find themselves in Hell, where they’re surrounded by the most scorching Stephen King hot takes they’ve read to date. How scorching? Take a gander at a few: “The Dark Tower is boring…”; “Gerald’s Game isn’t scary…”; “Bill Hodges is good actually.” The takes go on and on like this, and, as Glenn […]

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‘Wolves of the Calla’ Is a Wild Side Quest In Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’ Saga [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Randall Colburn Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

The Losers’ Club is back on the path of the Beam — and this time they’re following it to the end. The last three books in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga — Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower — all arrived in the space of less than a year […]

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Celebrating the Best of ’90s Stephen King [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Horror Books, Podcasts, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

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 […]

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