Tag: stephen king
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How Stephen King’s Earliest Novels Shaped His Career
Juvenilia is a term used to define the works of a writer or artist that are produced while they are still young and before their skills have been wholly fine-tuned. For most writers, this work is rather embarrassing. It is all too easy to see the flawed characters, the hackneyed dialogue, the wandering plot of…
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The King of Television: Stephen King on the Small Screen
In a co-appearance event in 2012 the novelist Tom Perrotta said that Stephen King was the one author in America that everyone–readers and non-readers alike–had heard of. Regardless of how you felt about King or his work, you knew his name and you knew his works. Few critics anymore dismiss King’s output, which has been…
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The Collected Stories of Stephen King: A Speculative Table of Contents
It is a sad truism that while many mainstream literary short story writers eventually publish a Collected or Best Of anthology, very few popular genre writers do the same. In this way, we end up with The Collected Stories of Flanery O’Connor and The Complete Stories of Jorge Luis Borges–both excellent–but sadly no such compilation from a writer like Stephen…
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The Underrated Masterpiece: Stephen King’s “From a Buick 8”
Not that all of the horrors went unglimpsed. In the end, they glimpsed plenty. Any writer with a career as long and varied as Stephen King’s is going to have at least a couple novels that get overlooked. Some deservedly so. Others, however, get lost in the shuffle and never get a chance to shine.…
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The October Country: Oct. 15th: “The Raft” by Stephen King
In celebration of the month of October, I’ll be sharing 31 of my favorite spooky, eerie and creepy stories, one per day. The stories will range over an array of genres: horror, suspense, science fiction, mysteries and dark fantasy. The October Country …that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country…
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All In a Name: Best Short Story Titles
When I was teaching 6th grade, we used to have a weekly Top 10 List. The list could be anything: Top 10 Movies, Top 10 Hairdos From the 60’s, Top 10 Tricks to Play on Your Sister. One week I put together a list of the Top 10 Titles From Ray Bradbury Short Stories. We’d…
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Dark Score Stories
I checked out today the new website Darkscorestories.com, a companion site to A&E’s release of the TV mini-series version of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones.” The novel ranks amongst King’s best work, and thus I’m holding out high hopes for the series. It also marks the return of Pierce Brosnan to television. Let’s hope it…
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