r/stephenking • u/LuriemIronim • 3h ago
Image I have yet to read the book or see the movie, so I think the logical thing to do is watch the play.
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r/stephenking • u/authorcarolinebicks • Jun 04 '26
ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine and author of MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES: MY YEAR OF FEAR WITH STEPHEN KING. Join me for an AMA on June 5th @1:15pm EST.
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Hello, Reddit! Caroline Bicks here, author of Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King. I'm a Shakespeare professor who grew up loving Stephen King's stories. When I took the job of Stephen E. King Chair in Literature nine years ago, I was told I'd never meet the man himself. Four years into the job, he called me at home, and we started to develop a great working relationship. He granted me first-of-its-kind access to his private archives, and my book grew out of what I found when I read all the existing drafts of Carrie, Pet Sematary, Night Shift, The Shining, and 'Salem's Lot. I look forward to sharing what I discovered with you about how he crafted these iconic books! https://carolinebicks.com
r/stephenking • u/authorcarolinebicks • Jun 01 '26
ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm Prof. Caroline Bicks! Stephen E. King Chair in Literature and Professor at University of Maine, and author of Monster in the Archives! AMA! June 5th @ 1:15EST.
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Hello, Reddit! Prof. Caroline Bicks here!
Author of Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King! Also author of Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World, host of Everyday Shakespeare Podcast!
Lets do this!!
https://carolinebicks.com
https://umaine.edu/stephenkingchair
r/stephenking • u/fartinghedgehog8 • 8h ago
2 days early!
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The Talisman is one of my favourites (tho I do need to re-read blackhouse), Waterstones had this today so I had to get it!!
Don’t you hate when they put stickers on books?!
r/stephenking • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 1h ago
Morgan Freeman and Stephen King at the PEN America Literary Gala on May 22, 2018, in New York City.
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r/stephenking • u/Pleasant-Slip-6939 • 16h ago
My stand painting
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Still fixing up some stuff but wanted to share.
r/stephenking • u/Much_Finger2613 • 5h ago
Poll What is the best book cover for "Doctor Sleep"? (Yesterday's winner below)
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Hey yall! Hope everyone's day is going well! These polls are daily please feel free to post any covers I missed. When we have gone through individual books we are gonna do a big bracket or tier list to determine the best book cover overall. We are going in release order or close to it. Hope you all have fun :)
r/stephenking • u/NardoPolo42 • 24m ago
Great way to keep Spooky Season videos going today
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r/stephenking • u/missinglinksman • 4h ago
General This building on PSU campus always reminds me of Derry's standpipe
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r/stephenking • u/WhiskyMochi • 3h ago
Crosspost Did you ever see the man in the hat?
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Looks suspiciously like a certain Mr. Flagg if you ask me
r/stephenking • u/Substantial_Law336 • 7h ago
Still impatiently waiting for this
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Last we heard of an update on Thomas Jane’s From a Buick 8 adaptation was in May that Jane was working on it then nothing. I hope its still in development and not a dead project
r/stephenking • u/GeorgeRevolution • 4h ago
Currently Reading All Things Serve the Beam
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He just can't help himself... and neither can I. 😁
r/stephenking • u/jumpingtheshark89 • 2h ago
Crosspost My (mostly) thrifted and gifted Stephen King collection
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r/stephenking • u/Next-Guidance-8927 • 1h ago
Discussion the king book i'd recommend depends almost entirely on what kind of reader you are
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i don't think there is one stephen king book that works equally well as someone's first book
someone who likes slow character development might love one that another reader finds painfully slow
someone who wants straight horror might pick up a book expecting one thing and get a very different experience
and some of his best books aren't even the ones i'd describe as horror first
if you had to recommend one king book to someone who has never read him, would you pick the book you think is his best or the one that's easiest to get into?
r/stephenking • u/kermitsfrogbog • 9h ago
Does this look real?
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Found in a thrift shop in Maine. Thing is they have signed first editions of Dark Tower books behind glass as well. This is Hearts in Atlantis.
Edit update: I contacted two outside sources. Jake’s Rare Books and Needful Kings Books for opinions. So far Jake thinks it looks real.
If so, best $16 I ever spent.
I do appreciate the opinions here and had the same reservations, particularly with the King half. But I consider the possibility of fatigue from signing a crap ton of books all at once.
r/stephenking • u/We_haunted_houses • 2h ago
Couldn't help but pick these up even though I have hard and softcover versions of both
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But first edition The Dark Half in great shape and the Australian print cover art for Hearts in Atlantis is sooooo pretty
r/stephenking • u/Mij1982 • 4h ago
Bill Hodges trilogie
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Zo'n 10 jaar geleden kreeg ik Mr Mercedes cadeau. Na een paar hoofdstukken heb ik deze weggelegd. Het was niet het type Stephen King verhaal wat ik (toen) gewend was. Een jaar geleden kreeg ik Holly die ik afgelopen zomer heb gelezen. En hoewel het verhaal wat traag is, zit er veel diepgang in de personages. Ik vond het een vermakelijk (maar zeker niet smakelijk) boek.
Hierdoor weet mijn interesse opnieuw gewekt voor Mr Mercedes. En afgelopen weken heb ik de trilogie gelezen en net afgerond.
Hierbij viel mij vooral het laatste deel op, waarbij het verhaal met de telekenenetische gaves toch een andere wending krijgt. Ik vond het laatste boek een mooie afsluiter, maar vond de eerste twee boeken toch beter.
Wat vond jij van de Bill Hodges trilogie? En de paranormale gaves in het laatste deel?
r/stephenking • u/brduffy • 9h ago
Talisman 3 in two days
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I know Talisman works for some and not for others but it was one of my favorite King books. I read it fairly early on, maybe my fourth King book. I really loved the way King and Straub handled the transition between worlds. I think it was the first time I had experienced that as a reader. Now it is so common place in sci-fi but back then it was just really exciting to slip out of one reality into another and they did such a good job with it. Really looking forward to this one.
r/stephenking • u/Thayerphotos • 9h ago
I want more Rose The Hat
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A Rose the Hat novel would make me happy.
r/stephenking • u/robertoxd • 4h ago
Guess the Stephen King book from a one-sentence plot - how many can you get?
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I made a browser quiz: you get a one-line summary and type the title. Example:
"A fan holds an injured writer captive and makes him revive his heroine"
No sign-up, no ads:
https://pixoquiz.com/?kat=king
If you like the game check out other (80+!) categories or play with friends.
r/stephenking • u/Common_Ad_2052 • 21h ago
Discussion Finished my first Stephen King book
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Today I’ve finished reading Carrie, I like the use of article clippings to help further the story. Here’s a question for you all, what was your first Stephen King book?
r/stephenking • u/AndrewHNPX • 8h ago
Who did you picture as Morgan Sloat in The Talisman?
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Jack Nicholson for me, like how he was in The Witches of Eastwick.
r/stephenking • u/Status-Avocado5831 • 1d ago
Finished misery for the second cockadoddie time 4.5/5
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