REVIVAL Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. Aficionados of the horror genre will instantly recognise this couplet as the work of H.P. Lovecraft, an excerpt from his fictional Book of the Dead, the Necronomicon. Referenced in Stephen […]
Read More REVIVAL by Stephen KingA brief update on the current state of play with the Big #CarrieAt40 Stephen King Vote. I have updated the novels section to allow readers to vote for Revival, which is almost upon us and which looks set to become an instant classic. I’m also setting a firm end date of 31 December 2014 for […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: The Stephen King Vote–UpdateJust when you thought all the #CarrieAt40 madness was over, it’s time to reveal the next phase. To celebrate Stephen King’s 40 years as a published author, we’ve created a survey to try and determine – according to his fans – which are his most important, enduring, or just plain entertaining works. The survey is […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: The Stephen King ChartMR MERCEDES Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 On a foggy April morning, in an anonymous, recession-hit Midwestern city, Brady Hartfield ploughs a stolen Mercedes Benz into a group of people queued for a job fair, killing nine and injuring many more. Six months later, Detective William Hodges retires from the City Police […]
Read More MR MERCEDES by Stephen KingROB CHILVER On the web: http://www.adventureswithwords.com On Twitter: @robchilver As a bookseller, I often see young teenagers hovering around the horror section shelves. On some occasions they stride confidently towards them, certain of what book to pick while at other moments, they waver halfway, around the ‘K’, a wide expanse of books to choose from, […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: Start at the Beginning by ROB CHILVERANDREW PYPER On the web: http://www.andrewpyper.com On Twitter: @andrewpyper Turning forty, that at once arbitrary but inarguable line between youth and mid-life, invites all manner of introspection, almost all of it unwelcome. I know, I had my turn at it a couple years ago. And no matter how strenuously and logically you tell yourself (and […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: Forever Young and Bloody by ANDREW PYPERKEALAN PATRICK BURKE On the web: http://www.kealanpatrickburke.com On Twitter: @KealanBurke When I was eight years old, I snuck into my mother’s bedroom while she was shopping, and swiped her copy of Stephen King’s Pet Semetery from her nightstand. This simple act of thievery opened the doors of horror, writing, and imagination to me in a […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: Ghosts of Smoke & Fire by KEALAN PATRICK BURKETHE UNQUIET HOUSE Alison Littlewood (www.alisonlittlewood.co.uk) Jo Fletcher Books (www.jofletcherbooks.com) £7.99 Eli, eli, lama sabachthani? It is love at first sight when Emma Dean first sets eyes on Mire House, which she has inherited from a distant, previously-unknown relative. She moves in and soon discovers there is more to the house than meets the eye: […]
Read More THE UNQUIET HOUSE by Alison LittlewoodMICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH On the web: http://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com On Twitter: @ememess There’s no doubt that horror fiction — and commercial fiction in general — would have been very different without the novel Carrie. Of course there were writers who’d blazed the trail — Richard Matheson and Ira Levin are two obvious examples — but in terms […]
Read More #CarrieAt40: Bringing the Weird Home by MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITHLOU SYTSMA On the web: http://www.liljas-library.com/podcast.php On Twitter: (Lou Sytsma) @OldDarth (The Stephen King Podcast) @SKingPodcast Fear. For over four decades, Stephen King has been the choice of many a Constant Reader to be our Guide into our deepest fears. But we didn’t put our trust in King freely. He earned it. With each […]
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