Stephen King built an empire on the ordinary meeting the awful, and every working writer can learn from how. This tag collects reviews and essays on King’s books, their adaptations, and the craft lessons inside his enormous shelf.
Fiction WritingStephen King wrote Carrie at a desk between a washer and a dryer, and his wife pulled the first pages out of the trash. Fifty years and 400 million books later, his method is still a daily quota, a three-month…
1970sTobe Hooper made one of the finest TV horror productions ever, with a silent Nosferatu-style vampire and unforgettable scares. Salem's Lot earns its 7.5 as one of the finest pieces of television horror ever made and proof that the right…
Book ReviewsSeven outcast kids in Derry, Maine battle a shape-shifting evil that feeds on fear and wears the face of Pennywise the clown, then reunite as adults to finish it. A rich, terrifying coming-of-age saga, held just below the top by…
1980s
1970sBrian De Palma's 1976 King adaptation. Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta supporting.
2010sAndrés Muschietti adapts the first half of King's novel about children battling a shape-shifting evil in 1980s Derry, Maine. It is Andrés Muschietti's 2017 American supernatural horror film adapting the first half of Stephen King's 1986 novel, depicting a group…
1980sA family discovers an ancient burial ground behind their Maine home that returns the dead to life, but wrong. Pet Sematary is Mary Lambert's 1989 American horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel, depicting a Boston physician who moves…
1990sMisery is Rob Reiner's 1990 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Stephen King's 1987 novel, depicting a romance novelist who crashes his car in a Colorado snowstorm and is rescued by his self-described number-one fan, who imprisons him in her isolated…
1980sRob Reiner's 1986 Stephen King novella adaptation. Phoenix, Wheaton, Feldman, O'Connell.
1990s
Book ReviewsHalf memoir, half manual, On Writing is the rare craft book where the life story earns the advice that follows. The toolbox is plain, practical, and honest about what writing actually costs. Read it first, then read everything else.
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