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: Never Flinch by Stephen King
Book #87 of 2025: Never Flinch by Stephen King (Holly Gibney #4) In the afterword to this new novel, author Stephen King acknowledges that it was difficult to write before saying that he’s “happy enough” with the final version. That’s largely how I feel as a reader, too. This is pretty far from the writer …
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Book Review: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three: The Sailor by Robin Furth, Peter David, Juanan Ramírez, and Jesus Aburtov
Book #61 of 2025: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three: The Sailor by Robin Furth, Peter David, Juanan Ramírez, and Jesus Aburtov The five issues in this bound volume unfortunately represent the end of the Marvel comic book adaptations of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series — or at least, there haven’t …
Book Review: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three Omnibus by Robin Furth, Peter David, Piotr Kowalski, Jonathan Marks, Nick Filardi, and Lee Loughridge
Book #49 of 2025: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three Omnibus by Robin Furth, Peter David, Piotr Kowalski, Jonathan Marks, Nick Filardi, and Lee Loughridge Nearly but not quite the last of Marvel’s Dark Tower comic adaptations, as this volume — already smaller than the first two — for some reason …
Book Review: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Omnibus by Robin Furth, Peter David, Richard Isanove, Sean Phillips, Luke Ross, Michael Lark, Laurence Campbell, and Alex Maleev
Book #21 of 2025: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Omnibus by Robin Furth, Peter David, Richard Isanove, Sean Phillips, Luke Ross, Michael Lark, Laurence Campbell, and Alex Maleev This bound edition contains volumes 31-60 of Marvel’s comic book adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, originally published from 2010 through 2013 under …
Book Review: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: Beginnings Omnibus by Robin Furth, Peter David, Jae Lee, and Richard Isanove
Book #185 of 2024: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: Beginnings Omnibus by Robin Furth, Peter David, Jae Lee, and Richard Isanove This graphic novel collects the initial arc of Marvel comic book adaptations of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic western Dark Tower novels, comprising 30 individual issues published from 2007 through 2010 under the subheadings of The …
Book Review: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Book #155 of 2024: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Author Stephen King has said that he wanted his second published novel to be a modern American version of Dracula, and almost half a century on, I think it’s fair to say that he succeeded in that aim. The parallels are there if you seek them …
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Book Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Book #121 of 2024: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King One of Stephen King’s regular preoccupations as a horror author seems to be the idea of a person getting stuck in confined circumstances just off the track from their ordinary life. This 1999 novel, in which a nine-year-old girl winds up separated …
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Book Review: You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Book #79 of 2024: You Like It Darker by Stephen King A new collection of short fiction from horror master Stephen King, five entries of which are brand-new for this volume and seven of which have previously appeared elsewhere. (Personally, for instance, I’d already read “The Turbulence Expert” in the King-edited anthology Flight or Fright …
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Book Review: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams
Book #4 of 2024: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams This 2008 anthology collects 22 short stories about life after various apocalyptic scenarios, all but one of which had been previously published elsewhere (although Stephen King’s plague journal “The End of the Whole Mess” was the only entry I’d read before). …
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