Stephen King may be known for epic novels like It and The Stand, but many Constant Readers first met the Master of Horror through his short fiction. Beginning with the iconic 1978 collection Night Shift, the best-selling author has been dazzling us for decades with short stories overflowing with sickening gore, fantastical creatures, meticulous violence, and transcendent joy. King follows suit in You Like It Darker, a jaw-dropping collection of twelve terrifying tales, five of them previously unpublished. Inspired by Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker,” the outstanding tome dives head-first into the brutal randomness of pain and destruction – a “lullaby for suffering” only King can deliver.
The collection kicks off with “Two Talented Bastids,” a poignant story about an elderly author and his less talented son. Laird Carmody is a small-town Mainer who prizes his quiet life among the locals – a thinly veiled reference to King himself. The sprawling...
The collection kicks off with “Two Talented Bastids,” a poignant story about an elderly author and his less talented son. Laird Carmody is a small-town Mainer who prizes his quiet life among the locals – a thinly veiled reference to King himself. The sprawling...
- 5/20/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stephen King is widely known as one of the most fruitful and prolific authors of our time. His greatest strength is improvisation, and as a so-called pantser writer, King pumps out new novels and novellas with terrifying speed — something you’d expect from the man dubbed as the King of Horror. Recently, the author took to his social media to make fans’ day with an unexpected yet welcome announcement.
Stephen King’s New Book Dropping Soon
On his X (formerly Twitter) account, Stephen King teased his upcoming release. The book is titled You Like It Darker, and it’s a collection of small stories — one of the author’s most popular and amusing formats. It will come with an audio version right off the bat, which is a nice feature for those who prefer their horror “on the go.”
“I’ve got a book of stories coming out next week — You Like It Darker.
Stephen King’s New Book Dropping Soon
On his X (formerly Twitter) account, Stephen King teased his upcoming release. The book is titled You Like It Darker, and it’s a collection of small stories — one of the author’s most popular and amusing formats. It will come with an audio version right off the bat, which is a nice feature for those who prefer their horror “on the go.”
“I’ve got a book of stories coming out next week — You Like It Darker.
- 5/15/2024
- by dean-black@startefacts.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
You Like It Darker: Stephen King’s next short story collection includes the Cujo sequel Rattlesnakes
A year and a half ago, legendary literary master of horror Stephen King mentioned that he was writing a novella called Rattlesnakes, which he referred to as a sequel to his 1981 novel Cujo (buy it Here), which was turned into a movie (watch the movie Here) that King thought should have earned star Dee Wallace an Academy Award. Although the events of Cujo are referenced in other King stories, it has never gotten a direct follow-up – which makes sense, since it’s about a rabid St. Bernard dog that doesn’t survive past the final pages. But now Entertainment Weekly has revealed exactly how Rattlesnakes is connected to Cujo: the lead character happens to be Vic Trenton, whose wife Donna and son Tad were the characters trapped in a car by the rabid St. Bernard. They have also revealed that Rattlesnakes is going to be one of the twelve...
- 11/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s last outing with a Dennis Lehane adaptation (Shutter Island) not only made room for a career-best performance, but also led to what was, in my humble view, a near-masterpiece of a film. So even though the one up for discussion today probably won’t nab Martin Scorsese twixt now and the start of production, it’s almost inherently obvious that something valuable can be mined from this collaboration.
Anyway, Deadline reports that DiCaprio and his production company, Appian Way, will collaborate with Warner Bros. on Live By Night, a big-screen take on Lehane‘s October-bound novel of the same name. This, interestingly enough, means they’re also adapting a sequel to his 2008 book, The Given Day, which focused on two men living in Boston around the end of World War I; DiCaprio would likely play Irish cop Danny Coughlin, a character now in the midst of Prohibition.
Anyway, Deadline reports that DiCaprio and his production company, Appian Way, will collaborate with Warner Bros. on Live By Night, a big-screen take on Lehane‘s October-bound novel of the same name. This, interestingly enough, means they’re also adapting a sequel to his 2008 book, The Given Day, which focused on two men living in Boston around the end of World War I; DiCaprio would likely play Irish cop Danny Coughlin, a character now in the midst of Prohibition.
- 4/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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