“The first great thriller of 2017 is almost here: Final Girls, by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.” —Stephen King Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a […]
In junior high, one of my favorite activities was going to my small public library and discussing Stephen King’s cannon of horror with my friends. Once I read The Shining and Pet Semetery, I was hooked. I think fans of the master storyteller and legendary author Stephen King often ask, is there anything the “Master […]
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CARRIE is perhaps Stephen King’s most famous novel—the one that put him on the horror map. Who can forget Sissy Spacek’s chilling performance as teenage outcast Carrie White in the original 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma? The girl who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior […]
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Only Stephen King could create a clown that is so terrifying. Well, in 1990 King’s It became a terrifying TV mini-series and later film that brought “Pennywise the Dancing Clown” from the page to the screen to frighten many more. The tagline for the film was “From the King of terror, a chilling new dimension […]
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According to a New York Times article, DC Comics will soon be publishing a series called “American Vampire,” which, illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, will concern itself with “a new breed of vampire through the lens of different eras in American history. The second 16-page portion of the story will be done by none other […]
