Book #135 of 2025: The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene [Disclaimer: I am Facebook friends with one of the editors.] Stephen King’s 1978 novel The Stand is a massive post-apocalyptic classic — over 1100 pages in its revised …
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Book Review: Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
Book #38 of 2022: Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar (The Button Box #3) I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed this latest Stephen King / Richard Chizmar collaboration, given how I was generally lukewarm on the authors’ original Gwendy’s Button Box and cared even less for Chizmar’s solo followup Gwendy’s …
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Book Review: Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar
Book #238 of 2019: Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar (The Button Box #2) The first novella in this series was a collaboration between authors Richard Chizmar and Stephen King, and although the execution was a little uneven, I mostly liked the concept. But I just don’t get this follow-up solo venture from Chizmar, set …
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Book Review: Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
Book #26 of 2018: Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar I find that I often react to novellas by wishing they were longer, and this recent Stephen King collaboration is no exception. (If nothing else, expanding the book would help to distinguish it from the classic Richard Matheson short story / movie …
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