Release Date: May 13th, 2022
A couple desperately try to hide their daughter, Charlie, from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for turning fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Her father taught her how to defuse her power, but as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. When a mysterious operative finally finds the family, he tries to seize Charlie once and for all -- but she has other plans.
Firestarter stars Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley, Michael Greyeyes, and Gloria Reuben. The movie is slated to premiere in theaters and streaming on Peacock on May 13th, 2022.
Release Date: September 6th, 2022
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy – and his dog – must lead the battle.
Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”
“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”
Posted: April 1st, 2022 1:30:37 am EDT
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, had a deep conversation with Stephen King on BBC Radio 4.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 7:29:15 pm EST
Stephen King is returning to the character of Holly Gibney in a new novel titled Holly.
Gibney previously appeared in the Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch),The Outsider, and If It Bleeds. The character was portrayed by Justine Lupe in the Audience show Mr. Mercedes and by Cynthia Erivo in the HBO series The Outsider.
King made the announcement on an episode of the The Kingcast podcast.
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Posted: February 17th, 2022 3:37:09 pm EST
Castle Rock has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but none quite like the tale of Gwendy Peterson. Hear award-winning narrator Marin Ireland narrate Gwendy’s Final Task, the final audiobook in Stephen King and Richard Chizmar’s bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy.
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Posted: February 14th, 2022 3:53:39 pm EST
Unlike Stephen King’s many other protagonists, Gwendy Peterson didn’t face the existential threat of a killer dog, demonic clown or alcoholic innkeeper. As the legendary horror author puts it, she was "dying in a desk drawer" in his Maine office until fellow writer Richard Chizmar came along and saved her.
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Posted: January 24th, 2022 11:15:51 am EST
Head over to Entertainment Weekly to read an exclusive excerpt from Stephen's upcoming novel Fairy Tale.
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Posted: January 10th, 2022 12:25:36 pm EST
In another World's 1st Edition from Cemetery Dance Publications: a unique new book published in the old-fashioned "double" tradition!
The book includes A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan, for the first time in hardcover, and an expanded edition of The Longest December by Richard Chizmar. Additionally, cover artwork for both sides by Ben Baldwin, interior artwork for each novella by Mark Edward Geyer, and Special Editions include additional artwork by François Vaillancourt.
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