A collection of short fiction features "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," "Lunch at the Gotham Cafâe," and "In the Deathroom," as well as "1408," about a writer whose stay in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel turns his life upside down.
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781416549857
Category: Fiction
Page: 464
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A collection of short fiction features "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," "Lunch at the Gotham Cafâe," and "In the Deathroom," as well as "1408," about a writer whose stay in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel turns his life upside down.
An eerie, enchanting compilation of witty dark tales.
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444723219
Category: Horror tales, American
Page: 560
View: 180
Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time. In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book 'Riding the Bullet'. Terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'. 'LT's Theory of Pets' will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn.
Scribner's, 2016. _____. Everything's Eventual.” Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. Pocket Books, 2002, pp. 211–263. _____. The Eyes of the Dragon. Signet, 1987. _____. “Fair Extension.” Full Dark, No Stars. Pocket Books, 2010, pp.
Author: Alissa Burger
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476642802
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 212
View: 555
A sprawling epic that encompasses many worlds, parallel and alternate timelines, and the echoes between these disconnects, Stephen King's Dark Tower series spans the entirety of King's career, from The Gunslinger (limited edition 1982; revised in 2003) to The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012). The series has two distinctive characteristics: its genre hybridity and its interconnection with the larger canon of King's work. The Dark Tower series engages with a number of distinct and at times dissonant genre traditions, including those of Arthurian legend, fairy tales, the fantasy epic, the Western, and horror. The Dark Tower series is also significant in its cross-references to King's other works, ranging from overt connections like characters or places to more subtle allusions, like the sigil of the Dark Tower's Crimson King appearing in the graffiti of other realities. This book examines these connections and genre influences to consider how King negotiates and transforms these elements, why they matter, and the impact they have on one another and on King's work as a whole.
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. New York: Scribner, 2002. W: The Wind Through the Keyhole. New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant in association with Scribner, 2012. SECONDARY TEXTS BY STEPHEN KING Bag of Bones. New York: Scribner, 1998.
Author: Robin Furth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781451695045
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 720
View: 920
The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. The Complete Concordance is an entertaining and incredibly useful guide to Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series, covering books I-VII and The Wind Through the Keyhole, and is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything they need to navigate their way through the series. With hundreds of characters, Mid-World geography, High Speech lexicon, and extensive cross-references, this comprehensive handbook is essential for any Dark Tower fan. Includes: -Characters and Genealogies -Magical Objects and Forces -Mid-World and Our World Places -Portals and Magical Places -Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps -Timeline for the Dark Tower Series -Mid-World Dialects -Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers -Political and Cultural References -References to Stephen King’s Own Work
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Scribner,March 2002) HowardCottrell is the unfortunate gentleman who is the patient in 'Autopsy Room Four';he wouldn't mind quiteso muchifhe was really dead. 'The Manin theBlack Suit'who spinsa web ...
Author: Paul Simpson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781472110749
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 304
View: 181
2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become synonymous with horror and suspense through over fifty works, including The Dark Tower, a retelling of Byron’s Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came. Simpson traces the writer’s life from his difficult childhood – his father went out to the shops and never came back – through his initial books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman to the success of Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining in the 1970s, and beyond. He examines how King’s writing was affected by the accident that nearly killed him in 1999 and how his battles with alcohol and addiction to medication have been reflected in his stories. The guide will also take a look at the very many adaptation’s of King’s work in movies, on television and radio, and in comic books.
... category for The Green Mile 1997 Publishes The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass and privately issues Six Stories; ... Publishes From a Buick 8 and Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales; the miniseries Rose Red appears on television; ...
Author: Albert Rolls
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9780313345739
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 216
View: 591
Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth, far from glittering publishing and film centers, yet few American writers can now equal his hold on audiences worldwide. This biography traces King's evolution from would-be pulp magazine writer to master of his craft, whose work both epitomizes and transcends the horror genre.
Riding the Bullet tells the story of Alan Parker, a college student who hitchhikes back home when his mother is ... story, running just over fifty pages in the mass market paperback edition of Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002) ...
Author: A. Burger
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137483911
Category: Education
Page: 211
View: 915
Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming of age narratives. Finally, the section on Playing with Publishing includes chapters on serial publishing and The Green Mile, e-books, and graphic novels.
... and Other Ghost Stories, 19 The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Images, 95 Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature, 14 The ... 128 Event Horizon (film), 158 Everything That Rises Must Converge, 51 Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales, ...
Author: Sherri L. Brown
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781442277489
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 252
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The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
In Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. New York: Pocket Books, (2002) 2003. GP King, Stephen. Needful Things. New York: Viking, 1991. GP Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. New York: Harper/Perennial, (1988) 2003.
Author: Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 9781648893391
Category: Art
Page: 373
View: 936
This book focuses on the perception of the names, personae, performances and films of three Hollywood megastars, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, as presented in the references and allusions encountered in American and foreign literature. Its secondary aim is to establish the ‘impact factor’ of the three actors and their major films and provide extensive data for further studies on the complex and bilateral relationships between film and literature. The pertinent quotations in ‘Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature: A Study in Film Perception Through References to Peck, Mitchum and Holden’ have been extracted from nearly 220 works by about 140 authors. The majority of the works were written by acclaimed authors; amongst them are some well-known American mainstream writers such as John Updike, John Irving, Fannie Flagg and Anne Tyler; some leaders of the mystery genre include Martha Grimes, Stuart Kaminsky, Elmore Leonard, Sara Paretsky; and a few masters of other popular genres, such as Stephen King and Dean Koontz. The global flavor of the citations is provided by international authors (e.g., Julio Cortázar, Elizabeth Hay, Henri Charrière, Sebastien Japrisot) and authors born to first-generation U.S. immigrants (e.g., Oscar Hijuelos). Almost seventy films referenced in world literature are discussed in the book, and those mentioned in the biggest number of works include ‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘Roman Holiday’, ‘Spellbound’, ‘The Guns of Navarone’, and ‘Duel in the Sun’, among others. This book will appeal to college professors and students interested in film studies, specifically film analysis and criticism, film perception, and film genres. It will also hold interest for the general reader interested in biographies of movie personalities and the careers of the three actors, movie and stage actors, and fans of the western, film noir, and war genres.