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Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #174
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When it was announced that Lifetime would be behind a made-for-TV adaptation of “Big Driver,” the second novella from Full Dark, No Stars, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The novella is dark and brutal, whereas Lifetime is better known for the kinds of stories that the novella’s protagonist writes—cozy mysteries—or romances. The network’s material is targeted at women, primarily. So what did that mean for this revenge tale? You’ll be able to see for yourself this Saturday at 8/7C when the movie premieres.
I had the chance to screen the film a couple of weeks ago and I’m here to tell you that it pulls few punches, if any. Tess is played by Maria Bello (Amy Rainey in Secret Window). She gets a last name in this version, Thorne, whereas she was just Tess in the novella. The plot plays out much the same as it did in King’s story. Tess drives herself to a nearby community where she is the featured guest at a brown bag luncheon and regales her sizable audience with the kinds of stories authors tell about themselves and their characters, and has the kinds of encounters writers often do with the public. The woman who organized the event suggests a shortcut that will get Tess home faster and, on a lonely road miles from civilization, Tess has a fateful encounter with the Big Driver. What happens next is brutal and, frankly, hard to watch. If you have any triggers about male-on-female violence, you may wish to avert your eyes. And even when the assault is over, the worst isn’t done for Tess. She has to crawl to freedom. Whoa. It makes me cringe just thinking about it now.
Ann Dowd from The Leftovers plays Rebecca Norville, Olympia Dukakis plays the physical manifestation of one of Tess’s characters, and Joan Jett plays the bartender at the Stagger Inn. Eastern Canada plays the part of New England—in fact, the movie was filmed just down the road from where Haven is shot. I recognize some of the roads, and I’m pretty sure Tess’s reading takes place on my alma mater’s campus, Dalhousie University. At least the external shots look like the old science library and nearby buildings. Events in the final act are somewhat condensed and restructured, but Tess still talks to Tom, her GPS, her cat, and with the characters in her novels, and sometimes they talk back. This monologue with non-human objects seems a bit awkward at first, but it works in general, and Bello is unquestionably the star here. It’s almost a one-woman show, and she nails it. Joan Jett is more of a novelty. She’s done a little acting, but she’s not entirely comfortable here.
There are a few grace notes added by screenwriter Richard Christian Matheson that add to the story’s overall symmetry and should put a smile on viewers’ faces despite the brutality. You can watch the trailer here.
This has been the month of Full Dark, No Stars adaptations. A Good Marriage opened a couple of weekends back in a limited theatrical release concurrent with Video On Demand. You can rent or buy it on iTunes or Google Play (I chose the latter so I could cast it to my television), and on the OnDemand sections of cable services. I had a hard time finding it on UVerse until I discovered it was listed under “S”—for Stephen King’s A Good Marriage. This adaptation, too, is quite faithful to the source material—as well it should be since King wrote the screenplay. Some of the character interactions in the final 10-15 minutes are different, but there are no real surprises here if you’ve read the novella.
King was all over the place promoting A Good Marriage, as well as appearing on the PBS series In Search of Our Fathers. Here are some links.
- Author Stephen King on new movie and his dark reputation
- In Search of our Fathers
- The View
- Late Night with Seth Meyers Part 1 | Part 2
- HuffPost Live (this one is really good)
- NY Daily News: Five Questions with SK
Mercy, the adaptation of “Gramma” starring the kid from The Walking Dead that’s been in the can for a while, is now available for purchase on iTunes. It will be available for rent shortly. Speaking of The Walking Dead, did you pick up the Creepshow “easter egg” in the season premiere?
JJ Abram’s adaptation of 11/22/63 will be a nine-hour limited series on Hulu. It is being described as a limited “event series,” but there will be opportunities for future subsequent seasons based on the story.
In this interview King did with MTV while promoting A Good Marriage, he discusses his thoughts on the Dark Tower movie adaptation. “It took me 35, 36 years to write ‘The Dark Tower.’ I can wait [for the movie],” King said. “We’ve been close a couple of times. I’m content to see what happens. Sooner or later, it’ll show up.” He explained why he chose to write the screenplay for A Good Marriage and also teased that Josh Boone’s cinematic version of The Stand may be two movies.
CBS has renewed Under the Dome for a third season.
The audio version of Revival is being read by David Morse, who has a strong King pedigree. He appeared in The Green Mile, Hearts in Atlantis and The Langoliers.
And stay tuned for a special announcement from Rich Chizmar on Halloween!
John Dies at the End by David Wong — Brand New Oversized Signed Limited Edition Selling Very Quickly!
John Dies at the End
by David Wong
Brand New Oversized Signed Limited Edition Selling Very Quickly!
Our oversized signed Limited Edition of the internationally acclaimed John Dies at the End by David Wong is selling very quickly and, if we filled all of our distributor orders today, it would be SOLD OUT. But, as always, we will fill all of our direct customer orders first. so don’t wait to place your order because these won’t last long:
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Revival by Stephen King — A Spectacularly Dark and Riveting New Novel!
Revival: A New Novel by Stephen King
A spectacularly dark and riveting novel about addiction, religion, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life
Last Chance To Lock In Your First Edition, First Printing!
Hi Folks!
Revival by Stephen King will be published next month and we WILL be getting some copies for our collectors, but we need to place our order with the publisher TOMORROW if we want to lock in first edition, first printings, so please place your order ASAP through our website or we won’t know how many copies to order for our collectors!
About the Book:
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs—including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.
Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of 13, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family’s horrific loss. In his mid-thirties—addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate—Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.
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Even though Revival by Stephen King is being published by another publisher, we will be producing one of our popular custom-made slipcase for this title like we have for the last few Stephen King books!
The easiest way to add a slipcase to your purchase is by selecting the “Trade Hardcover Edition with Exclusive Slipcase!” option on the Revival product page— you’ll also save on shipping by ordering this way! (You can order just the slipcase by itself on the Revival custom slipcase product page.)
Don’t know what a slipcase is? That’s okay! You can see some sample images of other slipcases we’ve made below. We’re using the same high-quality materials we have used for our previous Stephen King cases, with one color hot foil stamping. The company who makes these for us is the best in the business and you won’t find a better way to protect your investment! (If you are new to collecting, you can read more about slipcases on our Book FAQ page.)
We’re selling these special slipcases for just $24.95, making them an extremely affordable way to protect your book. These cases will be produced after the book is published because we need a real copy of the book to get the sizing just right and your book and slipcase will ship together to save you on shipping. We think our collectors will be very pleased with what we have in mind for these very special cases, so don’t wait to place your order!
Sample Photo of a Previous Slipcase:
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The Best of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Scripts
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Brand New Trade Paperback Collection Coming Soon!
We’re pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of The Best of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Scripts from Gauntlet Press, but our supplies are very limited and this volume is a great value, so don’t wait to place your order!
The Best of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Scripts
edited by Tony Albarella
About the Book:
In 1959, renowned writer Rod Serling embarked on an ambitious new television series, The Twilight Zone. This groundbreaking anthology wove morality tales – often with an allegorical bent and featuring twist endings to rival O. Henry – spanning the science fiction, fantasy, suspense, and horror genres. In addition to his producing and narrating chores, Serling himself wrote a remarkable 92 of the show’s 156 episodes. Running for five years, The Twilight Zone went on to become a cultural landmark, winning Serling two of his six Emmy Awards and securing a vaunted position as one of the greatest and most influential television shows of all time.
In 2004, publisher Gauntlet Press embarked on an ambitious new book series, AS TIMELESS AS INFINITY: THE COMPLETE TWILIGHT ZONE SCRIPTS OF ROD SERLING. This ten-volume, limited edition run of signed hardcovers collected all 92 of the Twilight Zone scripts written by Serling, reprinted from the writer’s personal copies. Running for a full decade, the series was edited by writer and Rod Serling Memorial Foundation board member Tony Albarella with direct input from Serling’s wife, Carol. Contributors included Serling’s family, friends, contemporaries who worked with the writer, and current talents who were inspired by him.
Now, Gauntlet Press makes THE BEST OF ROD SERLING’S TWILIGHT ZONE SCRIPTS available for the first time in paperback. By contract these will be the ONLY scripts from AS TIMELESS AS INFINITY to appear in paperback. They have been selected by Carol Serling and editor Tony Albarella.
This collection presents ten of Serling’s most iconic scripts, along with analysis commentaries, rare photos, and interviews with Twilight Zone actors, writers, producers, and directors. THE BEST OF ROD SERLING’S TWILIGHT ZONE SCRIPTS includes the following scripts:
“Walking Distance”
“Time Enough at Last”
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”
“A Stop at Willoughby”
“A Passage for Trumpet”
“The Eye of the Beholder”
“The Obsolete Man”
“The Shelter”
“Death’s-Head Revisited”
“To Serve Man”
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Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
A Little Orange Book of Ornery Stories by Ed Gorman
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by Ed Gorman
Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of Only 500 Copies!
Hi Folks!
We’re pleased to report we’ll be getting copies of A Little Orange Book of Ornery Stories by Ed Gorman from Borderlands Press, and it probably goes without saying that Borderlands is one of our favorite presses and Ed is one of our favorite authors, so this is a match made in heaven for us!
A Little Orange Book of Ornery Stories
by Ed Gorman
Publisher: Borderlands Press
Publication Date: October 2014
Signed Limited Edition: 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author
Retail Price: $30
About the Book:
Ed Gorman has enjoyed a prolific, award-winning career in a variety of genres—mystery, science fiction, thriller, and horror. He’s published more than 50 novels, 8 collections, 100+ short stories, and edited 12 anthologies. His presence in the Little Books–Series II is a welcome and honored one. Collected in this volume are four of his more cantankerous and hard-nosed novelettes and stories.
If this is your first introduction to Gorman’s work, we’re sure after reading these selections, you’ll be looking for more of his tightly-written tales.
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Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Last Chance To Join The Cemetery Dance Collectors Club!
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Here’s What Our Collectors Have To Say About the Cemetery Dance Collectors Club!
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John Dies at the End by David Wong: Brand New Oversized Signed Limited Edition Rolling at the Printer!
John Dies at the End
by David Wong
Brand New Oversized Signed Limited Edition Rolling at the Printer!
Limited Edition is Already 60% Sold Out and Lettered Edition is 90% Sold Out!
“…a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors.”
— Fangoria
We’re pleased to announce a brand new oversized signed Limited Edition, the internationally acclaimed John Dies at the End by David Wong, and this one is already rolling at the printer and will be published in December!
Due to the lower than normal print run and the excitement surrounding this author’s work, we don’t expect these to last long, especially since the members of our Cemetery Dance Collectors Club snapped up 60% of the Limited Edition and 90% of the Lettered Edition during their advance notice window!
About the Book:
My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours.
You may not want to know about the things you’ll read in these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it’s too late. You’re in the game. You’re under the eye.
The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.
The important thing is this:
The drug is called Soy Sauce and it gives users a window into another dimension.
John and I never had the chance to say no.
You still do.
Unfortunately for us, if you make the right choice, we’ll have a much harder time explaining how to fight off the otherworldly invasion currently threatening to enslave humanity.
I’m sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind:
None of this was my fault.
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Thank you, as always, for your continued support and enthusiasm!
Collectors Club Members Receive An Exclusive Not For Sale Limited Edition by Simon Clark!
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Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
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by Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette
Featuring an exclusive introduction by Bill Hader and exclusive artwork by Stephen R. Bissette!
Cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
We’re extremely pleased to announce we have received Tomislav Tikulin’s cover artwork for Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman and it’s even more stunning than we expected.
This book is officially slotted for our 2015 publication schedule and we expect the remaining copies to sell very quickly thanks to the exclusive introduction by Bill Hader and exclusive artwork by Stephen R. Bissette and the overall beauty of this deluxe special edition!
About the Book:
For more than twenty years Neil Gaiman has been one of the world’s bestselling authors, and his loyal following is like none other. But no one has ever undertaken the daunting challenge of cataloging and researching every work the man has ever created. Until now.
In Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman, Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette take the reader on a detailed look at the man and his creations. Highlights include interviews with the author himself, collected rare works and previously unpublished writing, photographs, artwork, and conversations with Gaiman’s beloved collaborators. Every story and every character are featured at length in this amazing overview of an incredible career. Gaiman’s own comments are scattered throughout, shedding light on how he feels about the work he has created.
Whether you’re new to the worlds of Neil Gaiman or a long time traveler who knows these roads by heart, there is something new for everyone in this magnificent special edition of Prince of Stories. Exclusive to this oversized hardcover edition are a special introduction by Bill Hader that won’t appear anywhere else and exclusive artwork by Stephen R. Bissette!
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Carrie: The Deluxe Special Edition Production Update and Gift Edition 3-D Image Mock-Up!
Carrie: The Deluxe Special Edition
Production Update
Carrie: The Deluxe Special Edition is rolling at the printer, and we’ll have a better idea soon when the books will be finished, but in the meantime we wanted to share this 3-D mock-up of the Gift Edition our cover designer created. This image doesn’t show the finer textures of the slipcase material, but we thought it still looked really cool:
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The Cemetery Dance Collectors Club Is BACK! Bonus Items For Fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Simon Clark, Ray Garton, and more!
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Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #173
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If you read back over my previous several posts here, you’ll see that they’ve all been leading up today, the launch of Season 5 of Haven, the Syfy TV series loosely based on The Colorado Kid. This season will consist of 26 episodes, spread over the fall and spring in two 13-episode blocks. I visited the set at the end of June, when they were working on the 7th and 8th episodes. This morning, I had the chance to see tonight’s episode, “See No Evil,” which starts immediately after the final moments of Season 4, at which point William had been tossed through the portal under the lighthouse and Audrey had become her original form of herself, Mara, a trouble-maker in the most literal form.
In the first episode, something destroys the lighthouse and the cavern beneath and, presumably, the portal. The main characters are scattered far and wide before the blast, so for a while no one knows where anyone else is, and some time is spent in getting everyone back together. Nathan is the first one to encounter “Audrey,” but she’s not the woman he loves. Not on the surface, anyway. Mara (and kudos to Emily Rose for creating such a different personality, someone who is as gleefully malign as William) has an agenda, and she’s not going to let anyone stand in her way. She wants to get William back, something she can only achieve by a doorway or, rather, via a thinny, which will be a familiar concept to Dark Tower fans. However, something vexes her plans. And Nathan hasn’t given up hope that Audrey is still inside somewhere and he can bring her back.
On another front, Duke is trying to find Jennifer, who is the only lighthouse person unaccounted for. And, of course, there’s a Trouble, which manifests itself in people having their eyes and/or mouths sewn shut with a leather cord that defies all efforts to remove it. Though everyone tries to impress on Dwight the importance of reining in Mara, he knows this Trouble has the potential to be deadly, so that’s his #1 priority. The repercussions of Audrey giving Duke back his Trouble in the penultimate episode last season also start to come to light, and it’s a doozy. And, based on the previews for the season I’ve seen so far, there are going to be callbacks to a lot of past Troubles. Mara made ’em, so she could potentially use them as weapons to achieve her nefarious goals.
And I’m very worried about Dave Teagues. Is he having morphine-induced nightmares or terrifying memories?
Interested in learning more about the origins of the Troubles? There’s a 16-page mini-comic in the Season 4 DVD, and a web series called Haven Origins coming on September 12. Here’s a trailer for it.
King will embark on a six-city book tour to promote the release of Revival. He will appear in New York City (Nov 11), Washington, DC (Nov 12), Kansas City, MO (Nov 13), Wichita, KS (Nov 14), Austin, TX (Nov 15) and South Portland, ME (Nov 17). Further details regarding the itinerary will be posted on King’s official website on September 15th.
Issue 1 of The Prisoner, the first cycle adapting The Drawing of the Three from Marvel, came out this week. For the first time, these comics are being offered digitally as well as in print.
In case you missed it, King’s latest short story “That Bus Is Another World” appeared in the August issue of Esquire. Also, here is King’s response to the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS. And here is an interview with King about how he teaches writing, from the Atlantic.
The PBS series Finding Your Roots will feature King in its first episode of the new season on September 23. In this promo, King is shown a photo of his father and in this one, he learns more about his distant ancestors.
Encore is running King movies every day during September, with a special selection scheduled for King’s birthday.
There’s lots of news on the movie/TV front. Let’s hit the high spots:
- A Good Marriage will be in cinemas and available via Video On Demand on October 3. ‘We went in fearlessly’: Stephen King on adapting A Good Marriage for film.
- Big Driver will premiere on Lifetime on Saturday, October 18 at 8pm ET/PT. The movie stars Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett, Will Harris and Ann Dowd (from The Leftovers). The script is by Richard Christian Matheson, with Mikael Salomon directing. Here is a teaser video.
- Mercy, the film adaptation of “Gramma,” will be “dumped to digital” in October. I assume this means it’s going straight to Video On Demand.
- Mr. Mercedes will be a 10-episode TV series. Jack Bender will be on the production team.
- CBS has ordered a “put pilot” (a serious commitment) from Warner Bros. TV for a series based on “The Things They Left Behind.” It is described as a supernatural procedural drama in which an unlikely pair of investigators carry out the unfinished business of the dead.
- Mark Romanek will direct Overlook Hotel, the prequel to The Shining.
- In this video, King discusses his involvement with the second season of Under the Dome, which is nearing the end of its second season. There are also a couple of good interviews with him: Stephen King Isn’t Afraid Of The Big Bad Adaptation and Written by — and tweaked for TV by — Stephen King
- Now that Cell has wrapped, King teased what he could about the film. “The movie is not totally close to the original screenplay that I wrote,” he said. “But I’ll tell you what, the end of it is so goddamn dark and scary. It’s really kind of a benchmark there.”
- Writer Jeff Buhler has come aboard director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Pet Sematary reboot for Paramount. He discusses the project with Dread Central.
- The Stand director Josh Boone says: I finished writing the script maybe a month ago. Stephen [King] absolutely loved it. It’s, I think, the first script ever approved by him. [It’ll be] a single version movie. Three hours. It hews very closely to the novel…I don’t imagine we would shoot the movie until next Spring at the earliest. His full comments are available at Collider.
Tortured Souls by Clive Barker — Beautiful Subterranean Press Hardcover Edition!
Tortured Souls by Clive Barker
Beautiful Subterranean Press Hardcover Edition!
Hi Folks!
We’re very pleased to report we’ll be receiving copies of Tortured Souls by Clive Barker from Subterranean Press, so don’t wait to place your order or you might miss out!
About the Book:
Tortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary “first city” known as Primordium, the site of political upheaval, passionate encounters, and astonishing acts of transformation.
Lurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient entity known as “Agonistes,” who accepts the pleas of selected “Supplicants,” transforming them, through a combination of art, magic, and pain, into avatars of violence and revenge.
The story begins when a freelance assassin named Zarles Krieger commits a routine murder-for-hire. This act will lead him to two life-altering encounters, one with the daughter of his victim, the other with Agonistes himself. This conjunction of the human and the inhuman stands at the center of this instantly absorbing creation.
With great authority and equally great economy, Tortured Souls expands to become a portrait of Primordium itself, with its hierarchies, its hidden mysteries, its shifting power structure, and—most significantly—its indelible cast of characters. A perfectly controlled example of what Barker calls “the fantastique,” Tortured Souls is something truly special, a story whose imaginative reach and sheer narrative power are evident on every page.
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