New York Times, 18 November 1992: ‘Book Notes: King on Horror’
LA Weekly, 19 April 2012: ‘Lawrence Kasdan Interview’
Dreamcatcher DVD Special Features: Interview with Stephen King (recorded November 2002)
Tenebres, no. 11/12 (Stephen King Special): Peter Straub interview (English version at http://www.liljas-library.com/show-interview.php?id=6)
NPR Books, 28 May 2013: ‘Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared’
Parade magazine, 25 May 2013: ‘A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King’
Entertainment Weekly, 1 February 2013: ‘Stephen King unearths origin of “The Shining” sequel “Doctor Sleep” – EXCLUSIVE’
Daily Telegraph, 1 February 2010: ‘Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home’
Urban Cinefile, 31 January 2002: ‘Great Acting Is Nothing’
Los Angeles Times, 27 January 2002: ‘House Master’
Associated Press, 1 March 2004, ‘Stephen King has embedded knowledge of “Kingdom Hospital” ’
Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2004: ‘A Kingdom That Didn’t Come’
Jim Shooter.com, 12 September 2011: ‘Heroes for Hope and Why I Don’t Like Oxfam America’: http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/09/heroes-for-hope-and-why-i-dont-like.html
USA Today, 30 March 2010: ‘American vampires revealed’
Ain’t It Cool News, 27 February 2007: ‘Quint’s chat with Stephen King!!’
Guardian, 18 September 2004: ‘Dark Rider’
Guardian, 14 September 2000: ‘The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished’
American Theatre, April 2012 ‘Stephen King’s Down-Home Nightmare’
Atlantic, 23 July 2013: ‘Why Stephen King Spends “Months and Even Years” Writing Opening Sentences’
National Book Foundation: ‘Stephen King, Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution To American Letters Award, 2003’ speech at http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_sking.html#.UfO-kppwbIU
New York Times, USA Today and Entertainment Weekly reviews quoted at their websites.
INDEX
11/22/63
(novel) 31, 67, 81, 144–6, 217
(TV series) 146–7
‘1408’ (short story) 210, 211, 215, 263
1408 (film) 134, 211-12, 215
1922 219, 221, 222, 256
ABC (American Broadcasting Company) 23, 25, 50, 90, 114–15, 214, 244–5, 246, 249
Abrahams, Peter 121
Abrams, J. J. 146–7
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films 245
‘Afterlife’ 229–30
‘The Aftermath’ 7
Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto 50
Ain’t It Cool News website 157, 160
Albuquerque, Rafael 254
Alexander, Scott 133, 211
‘All That You Love Will Be Carried Away’ 209
Alleca, Adam 134
Amazon.com 215–17, 264–5
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression 21–2
American Booksellers Association 21
American Friends Service Committee 252
American Library Association 51
American Vampire (comic book series) 31, 252–4
Anderson, Bob and Darcy 220, 222
Anderson, Bobbi 87, 88, 89, 90
Anderson, Josef 238
animated adaptations 190, 197, 214
Antaeus magazine 205
Apt Pupil
novella 60, 191, 192
film 193–4
stage adaptation 194
Ardai, Charles 29, 147–8
Askin, Peter 222
The Atlantic magazine 95, 228
Attias, Daniel 73
audiobooks 137, 139, 196, 211, 217, 219, 264
‘Autopsy Room Four’ 209, 211
awards 23, 24, 28–9, 30, 61, 80, 137, 175, 211, 213, 219, 229, 240, 245
‘Ayana’ 212
Bachman Books 17, 46, 59, 64–5, 91, 92, 114
Bachman, Richard (pseudonym) 13, 16–17, 23, 30, 45, 47, 50–1, 59, 64, 65, 77, 91–2, 111, 114, 115, 138–9, 170, 264–5
Bag of Bones
(novel) 25, 32, 92, 113, 116–19
(TV series) 118–9, 215
‘Ballad of the Flexible Bullet’195
Bannerman, Sheriff George 52, 53, 60–1
Barlow, Kurt 38–9, 40, 41
Barris, Chuck 51
Barry, Dave 21
Barrymore, Drew 57, 236
baseball 19, 20, 31, 119–21, 198, 201, 217, 218, 224–5
Bates, Kathy 22, 86–7, 102
‘Batman and Robin Have an Altercation’ 229
‘Battle of Jericho Hill’ (Marvel Comics) 181
‘Battleground’ (short story) 187, 189
Battleground (TV episode) 189–90
Baxley, Craig R. 99, 247
BBC Radio (British Broadcasting Corporation) 41, 71, 139, 200
‘Beachworld’195, 197
Bean, Adrian 41
‘The Bear’ 162
Beaulieu, Janet 160–1
Beaumont, Thad 90–1, 92, 93, 95, 117
‘The Beggar and the Diamond’ 201
Best American Short Stories 30, 213
Big Driver 219–20, 221
‘Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game’ 195
‘The Bird and the Album’ 80
Bizarre Adventures #29 190
Black House (S. King and P. Straub) 27, 75, 124–6, 178
Black Ribbons (concept album) 255–6
Black Thirteen 167, 168, 169, 171–2
Blaine the Mono 162, 163
Blaisdell Jr., Clayton 137–8
Blaze (R. Bachman) 11, 30, 40, 137–9, 141
‘Blind Willie’ 203, 205
Blockade Billy 31, 217, 218
Blood and Smoke audiobook 211
Bloody Disgusting website 128
Blount, Roy 21
Boam, Jeffrey 54
The Body 22, 73, 95, 192–3, 194, 196, 223
see also Stand By Me
Bollywood films 190
‘The Boogeyman’ 187, 191
Book Genome Project 230
A Book of Horrors (S. Jones ed.) 228
Booth, Susan V. 258
Bowden, Todd 60, 191, 193–4
Brady, Charles 239–40
Bram Stoker Award 24, 30, 117
Brautigan, Ted 173, 203, 204, 205
The Breathing Method 192
British Fantasy Award 30, 61, 80, 117, 175
Broadcloak, Marten 164, 176, 177, 181
see also Flagg, Randall
Brodie, Deborah 84
‘Brooklyn August’ 201
Brooks, Stephen 189
Brosnan, Pierce 119, 190
Brown, Steve 16–17, 77
Browning, Robert 15, 156
Burlingame, Jessie 97–8, 101
Burnett, T-Bone 31, 258
Bush, George W. 143
Cabot, Leigh 66, 68
‘Cain Rose Up’ 46, 195–6
calendar, Cycle of the Werewolf 72, 253
Calero, Dennis 228
Callahan, Father Pere 38, 40, 41, 167, 169, 170, 171–2, 173
The Cannibalists 31, 143
Capshaw, Ron 265
Captain Trips 47, 48, 49, 187
The Car (film) 67
Carline, Mark 104, 244, 246, 249
Corneal, Michael 45–6
Carpenter, John 68, 223
Carrie (novel) 9–10, 35–8, 55, 60, 83, 90, 114, 136, 246
(1976 film) 13, 37, 90
(2002 film) 37
(2013 film) 32, 37–8
(musical stage production) 38, 255
Carter, Chris 243
Castle Rock, Maine 52–3, 60, 73, 92, 93–4, 95, 99, 191–2, 199, 200, 213, 227–8
Castle Rock Newsletter 17, 91, 158
‘The Cat From Hell’ 212, 213, 214
Cat’s Eye (film) 17, 73, 190, 236–7
Cavalier magazine 188, 202
Cavell, Douglas ‘Audits’ 121, 122, 124
CBS 20, 32, 50, 143–4, 239
Cell
(novel) 29–30
(film) 132–5
Cemetery Dance publishers 218, 227
Chadbourn, Glenn 191, 197, 203, 227
Chambers, Jake 155–6, 157, 159, 161–2, 164–5, 168, 170, 171–2, 173, 174
Chambers, Polly 94, 96, 117
Channel Guide Magazine 119
Chapman, Mark 86
Charities 20, 21–2, 30, 179, 252, 265
Chasse, Lois 102–3
‘Chatter Teeth’ 200, 202
Chicago Reader 194
‘Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came’ (R. Browning) 15, 156
‘Children of the Corn’ (short story) 188, 215
Children of the Corn (various films) 17, 22, 190
‘Chinga’ (episode of The X-Files) 241–3
Chiara, Richard 126, 128, 237
Christine 37, 65–8, 204, 223, 236
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 55
Cinefantastique 90, 237
Claremont, Chris 252
Clinton, Hillary 143
Cody, Jimmy 38, 40
Coffey, John 107–8, 109, 110
Cohen, Lawrence D. 81, 90, 96, 200
collaborative writing 17, 27, 30–1, 74–5, 124–6, 224, 225
The Colorado Kid 29, 54, 90, 129–32, 138, 160, 253
‘The Colour Out of Space’ (H. P. Lovecraft) 88
comic books
American Vampire 31, 252–4
The Dark Tower 179–82
The Talisman: Road of the Trial 76
The Secretary of Dreams 191, 197, 203, 212
Afterlife 230
‘The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verril’ tie-in 235
Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men 251–2
computer games
The Shining 44–5
The Dark Half 93
Discordia 182–3
The Mist 196
Connolly, John 107, 151
Cooper, Scott 50
Coslaw, Marty 72, 73
Cox, Jeffrey Lyne 46
Crandall, Jud 68–9, 71
‘The Crate’ (Creepshow short story) 234
Creed family, Doctor Louis and 68–9, 71
Creepshow (film) 16, 73, 233–5
Creepshow 2 (film) 196, 237
Creepshow III (film) 237
Creepshows 47
Crimson King 103, 124, 169–70, 171, 173, 174, 203
Cronenberg, David 53
‘Crouch End’ 201, 202
Cujo
(novel) 15, 53, 60–3, 196
(film) 62–3
Cullen, Tom 68
Cunningham, Arnie 66, 68
Currier, Lauren 63
Curry, Tim 91
Cycle of the Werewolf 16, 71–3, 253
see also Silver Bullet
Daniels, Rosie 105–6
Danse Macabre xv, 6, 15, 56, 67, 79, 261–3
Danville, Patrick 104, 141, 174
Darabont, Frank 22, 24, 51–2, 76, 109–10, 191, 193, 196, 233
The Dark Half
(novel) 20, 90–3, 114, 117, 199
(film) 92–3
(computer game) 93
The Dark Man 15, 49, 227
Dark Tower Concordance (R. Furth) 169
‘Dark Tower’ series xv, 15–16, 17, 20, 23, 25, 27–8, 29, 30, 31, 40, 49, 66, 75, 81, 83, 104, 106, 113, 125, 127–8, 130–1, 141, 156, 157, 159–60, 163, 166, 169, 170, 177, 205, 209–10, 218
see also individual books and characters by name
‘The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger’ (Marvel Comics) 180
The Dark Tower 104, 173–5, 178, 213
‘Darkshine’ 12, 42, 148
Dave’s Rag newsletter 6
David, Peter 30, 180
Davis, Andrew 65
Dawes, Barton George 58–9, 60, 65
De Laurentiis, Dino 17, 73, 189, 236
De Palma, Brian 13, 37
de Souza, Steven E. 65
The Dead Zone
(novel) 13, 15, 22, 29, 52–4, 62, 146, 196, 217
(film) 54
(TV series) 54, 131
Deadline magazine 204
Dean, Eddie 158–9, 161–2, 163,
164–5, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174
Dean, Mia see Dean, Susannah
Dean, Susannah 161–2, 164–5, 168, 170–2, 173–4
‘Death of Jack Hamilton’ 209, 210
Decker, Charlie 8, 45
DeCurry, Jamie 175–6
‘Dedication’ 200
Dees, Richard 53
DeLesseps, Rawlie 93
Demne, Jonathan 146
DeMuth, Cal and Becky 226
Derry 78–9, 102, 121–2, 123, 213
Deschain, Roland ‘the Gunslinger’ 15, 30, 75, 104, 155–6, 157, 158–9, 161–2, 163–5, 166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173–4, 175–6, 177, 178, 179–80, 181, 205, 209–10
see also ‘Dark Tower’ series
Desperation 23, 60, 98, 106, 110–11, 112–14, 180, 193
see also Stephen King’s Desperation
Detweiller, Carlos 206
Deutscher Phantastik Preis 175
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red (R. Pearson) 247
Different Seasons 22, 66, 138, 191–4
Discordia computer game 179, 182
DJ Will O’ The Wisp 255–6
Doctor Sleep 31, 40, 43, 101, 148–50
‘Doctor’s Case’ 201
Dodd, Frank 53, 54, 60–1
‘Dolan’s Cadillac’
(short story) 200
(film) 202
Dolores Claiborne
(novel) 20, 98, 99–101, 114, 245
(film) 102, 233
(opera) 102, 255
Donald M. Grant publishers 15–16, 29, 157, 158, 169
Donovan, Vera 99–100
Dooling, Richard 249, 250
Dorr, Russ 146
Doubleday publishers 8, 9–10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 36, 40, 46, 49, 64, 69, 138
The Drawing of the Three 17, 158–61
Dreamcatcher
(novel) 27, 81, 121–3
(film) 123–4, 233
drugs and alcohol problem, SK’s 9, 11, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 61, 86, 88
The Drum (SK’s high school newspaper) 7
‘Duel’ (R. Matheson) 30, 223–4
Dufrense, Andy 191, 193
Duma Key 30, 139–41, 213, 214
Dunaway, Don Carlos 63
Duncan, Michael Clarke 110
‘The Dune’ 229
e-books 27, 148, 207, 211, 217, 222–6
Earnshaw, Richard ‘Dinky’ 210, 213
Earth Abides (G. R. Stewart) 48
eBay 133–4
Edgecombe, Paul 107, 108, 110
Ellison, Harlan 197, 207
‘End of the Whole Mess’ 200, 202
Entertainment Weekly xvi, 28, 37, 44, 46, 106, 216, 221, 239, 249, 261, 264
Epping, Jake 144–5, 146
Erengis, George P. 189
Esposito, John 189
Esquire magazine 218–19
Etchison, Dennis 196, 263
Evans, Gregory 41, 71, 200
Evers, Dean 224–5
‘Everything’s Eventual’ 173, 210, 213
Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales 178, 209–12, 215
Eyes of the Dragon 17, 49, 82–4, 85, 160, 178, 204–5, 207, 241
A Face in the Crowd (S. King and S. O’Nan) 224–5
‘Fair Extension’ 220, 221
Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (S. King and S. O’Nan) 225
‘Fall of Gilead’ (Marvel Comics) 181
Fangoria 71, 105, 126
Fannin, Richard 162, 163
‘Father’s Day’ (Creepshow short story) 234
‘The Fifth Quarter’ 201, 202
films
1408 134, 211–12, 215
Apt Pupil 193–4
Carrie
(1976 film) 13, 37, 90
(2002 film) 37
(2013 film) 32, 37–8
Cat’s Eye 17, 73, 190, 236–7
Cell 134–5
Children of the Corn (various) 17, 22, 190
Creepshow 16, 73, 233–7
Creepshow 2 196, 237
Cujo 62–3
The Dark Half 92–3
The Dead Zone 54
Dolan’s Cadillac 202
Dolores Claiborne 102, 233
Dreamcatcher 123–4, 233
Firestarter 56–7, 68, 236
From a Buick 8 128
A Good Marriage 32, 222
Graveyard Shift 189
The Green Mile 24, 51, 109-10
Hearts in Atlantis 205–6, 215, 233
John Carpenter’s Christine 68, 109, 223
The Lawnmower Man 22, 190
The Mangler 189, 215
Maximum Overdrive 17, 99, 133, 237
Michael Jackson’s Ghosts 241
Misery 22, 86, 233
The Mist 195, 233
Needful Things 96, 235
The Night Flier 202
Pet Sematary 70–1
Quicksilver Highway 202
The Running Man 64, 65
Secret Window 200, 248
The Shawshank Redemption 22, 193, 215, 233
The Shining 15, 24, 43
Silver Bullet 73
Sleepwalkers 20, 239–41
Sometimes They Come Back 22, 190
Stand By Me 22, 194, 223
Stephen King’s Thinner 78
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie 214
Trucks 190
sequels 22, 215
The Rage: Carrie 2 37
Pet Sematary II 71
The Mangler 2 189
The Mangler Reborn 189
Sometimes They Come Back . . .
Again 190
Sometimes They Come Back . . .
For More 190
see also TV series
Firestarter
(novel) 13, 15, 37, 54–6, 60, 73, 150, 238, 239
(film) 56–7, 68, 236
Firestarter 2: Rekindled (TV miniseries) 57
Flagg, Randall xiv, 20, 37, 47, 49, 83–4, 163, 164, 166, 173, 181, 205, 227, 241
‘For Owen’ 195
Four Past Midnight 88, 197–200
Frears, Will 87
Freeman, John 229
Freeman, Morgan 123, 193
Freemantle, Edgar 139–40, 141
From A Buick 8
(novel) 28, 126–8, 223
(film) 128
‘From Beyond’ (H. P. Lovecraft) 127
Fulghum, Robert 21
Full Dark, No Stars 3, 31, 32, 219–22, 256
Furth, Robin 30, 76, 169, 177, 180, 181
Gaiman, Neil 147
Gallery Books 262
Gardener, Jim ‘Gard’ 88, 90
Garfield, Bobby 203–4, 205
Garris, Mick 20, 24, 44, 50, 114, 118–19, 212, 240–1
Garrity, Raymond Davis 51, 65