Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions and Wonderland Sound and Vision have announced they will bring an adaptation of Stephen's short story Gramma to the silver screen.

Titled Mercy, the film will be directed by Peter Cornwell (A Haunting in Connecticut) and will be produced by McG (Terminator Salvation) and Mary Viola (We are Marshall). The screenplay has been written by Matt Greenburg (1408).

The project will star British actor Frances O’Connor (The Hunter) with Dylan McDermott, (The Practice) Chandler Riggs, (The Walking Dead) and Joel Courtney (Super 8) supporting the fantasy-horror film.

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Video of Stephen's appearance at UMass Lowell is now available online at the UMass Web Site. The hour and thirty nine minute event covers many topics including a reading of a new short story titled Afterlife. (Amazing content!)

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Video of Stephen's appearance at UMass Lowell is now available online at the UMass Web Site. The hour and thirty nine minute event covers many topics including a reading of a new short story titled Afterlife. (Amazing content!)

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CBS Television has announced that Under the Dome will debut in the summer of 2013. The blockbuster tale will receive an initial 13 episode treatment produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.

Originally developed at Showtime, Under the Dome has now transferred to sister station CBS and will be produced by Neal Baer, (A Gifted Man, Law & Order: SVU) Stephen King, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, and Stacey Snider.

The series writer, Brian K. Vaughan (Lost) will also function as Executive Producer with Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Unforgettable) set to direct the first episode. 

We'll post more news regarding this exciting development as soon as we know more information.

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The Hollywood Reporter has ranked the top 25 authors in Hollywood placing Stephen at the very top of the list. The Constant Reader can check out the full list here. The specific page that details Stephen's ranking can be viewed here.

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The Stephen King Library's 2013 Desk Calendar is now available exclusively at the Stephen King Library. The calendar celebrates many milestone anniversaries for some of King’s classic books and includes book excerpts, trivia questions and more. Check out the Stephen King Library for more details.

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The soundtrack for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County will be released on March 19, 2013. The recording will feature the voices of Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Taj Mahal, Kris Kristofferson and John Mellencamp. The deluxe packaging will also feature handwritten lyrics and a short documentary on the making of the production.

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Four new episodes have been added to The Little Green God of Agony web-based comic today, and we will resume the Monday - Wednesday - Friday release of new episodes on November 7th.

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Subterranean Press has announced they will publish Signed Limited Editions of The Shining in October 2013. The luxurious hardcovers will be published in three formats and will feature over 40 illustrations by acclaimed artist Dagmara Matuszak.

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After an extensive year-long invitation campaign, the students of Sussex Regional High School in New Brunswick, Canada got their wish for Stephen to speak to them. You can watch videos of the event at the links below.

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Noted comic artist Dennis Calero (co-creator of  Xmen Noir and Devil Inside) has adapted Stephen’s “The Little Green God of Agony” for serial installments to appear Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for the next eight weeks!

“It rocks most righteously,” Stephen says of Calero’s finely-drawn adaptation.  Calero’s take: “I have been a huge Stephen King fan for as long as I can remember. To be able to work on ANYTHING with him is an honor.”

Tune in. Stay tuned.

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UPDATED - In the Tall Grass, the short story collaboration between Stephen and his son Joe Hill, has been released in eBook and Audiobook formats.

Originally published in two parts by Esquire magazine this past summer, In the Tall Grass is a frightening tale about a brother and sister lost within the tall grasses of a Kansas field.

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Hard Case Crime has revealed the cover art for Stephen's upcoming novel, Joyland.

Featuring a remarkable pulp-style painting by Glen Orbik, the cover art captures the true essence of the retro crime novel.

Joyland will be released on June 4th 2013. More to come...

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A music video for "In" has been posted to the Carrie: The Musical - Premiere Cast Recording promo pages. Great content!

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Sweepstake is now Closed Scribner is now holding "The Ultimate Dark Tower Series Collector's Prize" sweepstakes online.  Visit their site for more details about prizes and contest rules. Best of luck!

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Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton have established September 24, 2013 as the official first publication date for Doctor Sleep, a sequel to The Shining.

Cemetery Dance Publications has announced that Stephen's short story "Weeds" will be featured in the seventh edition of Shivers coming this winter.

Originally published in Cavalier Magazine in 1976 and again in Nugget Magazine in 1979, "Weeds" was also adapted into “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" for the 80's cult classic Creepshow.

For more information regarding this release, please see the announcement on the CD website.

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The forthcoming motion picture adaptation of Stephen's novella A Good Marriage has cast Joan Allen in the role of Darcy Anderson.  Best known for her work in the Bourne films and HBO's Luck, Joan Allen is a veteran actor that will no doubt bring a razor sharp performance to the production.  More to come...

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UPDATE: A second music video for "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance"  has been added to the Premiere Cast Recording promo pages.

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UPDATE: A music video for "In" has been posted to the Premiere Cast Recording promo pages. Great content!

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The Premiere Cast Recording of Carrie: The Musical will be released September 25th on iTunes, Amazon and other retailers. Featuring performances by Marin Mazzie (Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate, Next to Normal) and Molly Ranson, the recording celebrates the production's die-hard spirit with all the songs that made the Off-Broadway revival a success.

In anticipation of the release, Ghostlight Records is offering StephenKing.com users an exclusive offer. Use code KINGFAN for pre-order to receive10% off and free domestic (U.S.) shipping.

Please note: Stephen is not personally involved with the musical production of Carrie but thought fans would appreciate knowing about the CD release.

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Dear Constant Readers: This is fun, if you're into "bracketology," or even if you're not. If you go to Best Novels of All Time on the Huffington Post, you'll see a series of face-offs (To Kill a Mockingbird versus The Great Gatsby, for instance). I urge you not only to vote, but to use Twitter and Facebook to spread the word.

BUT.

Uncle Stevie says YOU MUST NOT VOTE FOR A BOOK YOU HAVEN'T READ. Which was why I couldn't vote for Moby Dick. Everyone says it's great and blah-blah-blah, but I drown in whale-oil every time I try it. My bad, people, I admit it. So…you may have to leave some brackets entirely blank. But this way it's fair.

And no, you can't vote for one of my books, 'cause I didn't make the cut. Still…happy voting, and spread the word. I'm guessing the champ might be Great Expectations, but I've been wrong before. Once in 1972, and once…mmm…no, that time I was right.

Vote! It's a great warm-up for November!

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In Stephen King’s first story for Harper’s Magazine, a middle-aged man named Sanderson brings his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father to Applebee’s for their weekly lunch, where for three years they have ordered the same food and had the same conversation. Just as Sanderson despairs of finding any shred of the man who raised him, he’s saved from a brutal assault to find his father wielding a weapon procured in a moment of lucidity.

Available on newsstands in the U.S. on 8/28 and on-line (subscription required) now at Harpers.org.

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Get Fuzzy featured Stephen in two recent comics. (Click the thumbnails below to enlarge comics.)

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Simon & Schuster Audio will be releasing the audiobook edition of A Face in the Crowd on August 21st. In anticipation of its release, we have posted an exclusive three and half minute audio sample read by Craig Wasson.  

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Scribner and Simon & Schuster Audio have announced a chilling new story titled A Face in The Crowd. Set for release on August 21st, the original ebook marks the second baseball-themed collaboration between Stephen and Stewart O'Nan. (Faithful)

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Mark and Brian of KLOS hosted an interview with Stephen regarding many topics including the upcoming Rock Bottom Remainders farewell shows. (Killer content!)

Listen to the MP3s:

Part 1

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Mark and Brian of KLOS hosted an interview with Stephen regarding many topics including the upcoming Rock Bottom Remainders farewell shows. (Killer content!)

Listen to the MP3s:

Part 1

Part 2

The RBR's "Past Our Bedtime Tour" has been featured in the LA Times. With quotes from Stephen and his fellow band mates, the article exposes the inner turmoil as the pick-up band prepares for their farewell shows.

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The Rock Bottom Remainders will be performing on June 22, 2012 for The Past Our Bedtime Tour at The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Tickets for the show and reception are available on this page.

For more information about the band, the tour, and the causes that will be supported from the proceeds of the show, please visit The Rock Bottom Remainders web site using the link below.

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"Ray Bradbury wrote three great novels and three hundred great stories. One of the latter was called 'A Sound of Thunder.' The sound I hear today is the thunder of a giant's footsteps fading away. But the novels and stories remain, in all their resonance and strange beauty."

Stephen King

Congratulations to the winners! The tee-shirts and audiobooks will be shipped out soon.

 
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Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will publish JOYLAND, a new novel by Stephen King, in June 2013.  Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, JOYLAND tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

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Esquire has announced it is to publish a new story collaboration by Joe Hill and Stephen as part of its launch of an e-book series called "Fiction for Men."  "In the Tall Grass" will be published in two parts, the first to appear in the June/July issue and the conclusion in the August issue.  The works will be available only in the print and iPad editions of the magazine.

The entry period for this giveaway has now passed.   Test your knowledge of The Wind Through The Keyhole and enter for a chance to receive a copy of the audiobook read by Stephen and a Wind Through The Keyhole tee shirt.  

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

The new Dark Tower Official Website is now live! Now in its third generation, the site features updated artwork, an expanded glossary and much deeper connections section. The Constant Reader will also find an issue-by-issue breakdown of the comics and soon-to-be added fan-art platform sure to please Dark Tower fans.

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It has been confirmed that Syfy will adapt Eyes of the Dragon for either a TV movie or mini series. Details regarding the specifics of the project are still emerging. We will post more information as it becomes available.

The Wind Through the Keyhole is now available in hardcover, ebook and audiobook formats.

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The Wind Through the Keyhole Audiobook in MP3 format is now available for purchase through a portable store from S&S Audio. The Constant Reader can help spread the word about Stephen's reading of Wind by embedding the player and store on your preferred network.

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Following up on Neil Gaimain's interview in the (UK) Sunday Times mentioning a new novel to be titled Joyland about an amusement park serial killer, Stephen has given the thumbs up to officially report that this is indeed a work in progress that has been completed but will need to be edited.  There is no official publisher or publication date set at this time.  We will update you as more official news becomes available.

Today's edition of The New York Times features an article by Wendell Brock regarding Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.  You can read it online at the link below.

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This contest is now closed. Every single ticket purchase using the promo code KING10 during ticket purchase, prior to April 1st (11:59 pm, March 31, 2012), receives an entry into a sweepstakes to win a VIP experience consisting of:

• Two opening night (April 11) orchestra tickets

• Two tickets to the VIP opening night party at the Four Seasons in Atlanta following the April 11 performance (transportation and lodging not included)

• Photo op with Stephen King

• A Stephen King autographed copy of 11/22/63

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TalesToTerrify.com has posted a podcast that features readings of several nominees for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. Lawrence Santoro provides a fantastic reading of Stephen's Herman Wouk is Still Alive at the 1 hour and 10 minute mark. Enjoy!

Update: Herman Wouk is Still Alive won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

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Be sure to cast your vote for 11/22/63 in Audible's 5th Annual Tournament of Audiobooks. See the link below for more infomarion and help support the award winning and highly acclaimed audiobook read by Craig Wasson.

Vote now on Audible.com (See Best Sellers)

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The March issue of Atlanta Magazine includes an interview with Stephen and John Mellencamp regarding the upcoming Ghost Brothers of Darkland County musical. The article is available in both print and online formats with the an extended version available online.

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In the spirit of Creepshow and Cat's Eye, a new motion picture anthology directed by Mark Pavia has been officially announced. Stephen King's The Reapers Image will feature four short films including The Reapers Image, Mile 81, N., and The Monkey.
 
With two of the stories hand selected by Stephen and two selected by Mark, the project is a solid mix of classic and contemporary King tales sure to please the Constant Reader.

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The Simon & Schuster Audiobook edition of The Wind Through the Keyhole will be read by Stephen. With over a decade since his last audiobook reading, Stephen shares "I’ve spent a lot of time with the character of Roland Deschain and the Dark Tower universe over the years. Now that I am revisiting that world, it felt like a fine time to lend it my voice."

The full-length audiobook will also feature an exclusive audio preview for Doctor Sleep. (Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining set to be published in 2013)

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Hey, you guys and gals: I've done public readings from next year's Shining sequel a couple of times now, but if you got the idea from any of the blog posts that the audio sample at the end of the forthcoming Wind Through the Keyhole CDs is just the five-minute snippet I read last month in Savannah...think again. It's the entire prologue of the book (called LOCKBOX). It's 25 manuscript pages and runs a little shy of half an hour when read aloud. If you're looking for a return to balls-to-the-wall, keep-the-lights-on horror, get ready. And don't say you weren't warned.

The newly reworked and fully re-imagined production of Carrie, produced by award-winning off-Broadway theater company MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, recently announced an extended run through April 22. The musical’s original creators, composer Michael Gore, lyricist Dean Pitchford, and book writer Lawrence D. Cohen (who wrote the screenplay for the 1976 DePalma film version) have completely revised their 1988 musical under the direction of Stafford Arima. Stars Broadway stalwart and Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie as Margaret White, and a young actress named Molly Ranson who, by all accounts, is giving a star-making performance.

MCC Theater is offering King fans a special $69 discount ticket offer for the run of the show!

Three easy ways to get $69 tickets:

Online and use code KINGFANS

Call (212) 352-3101 and use code KINGFANS

In Person The Lucille Lortel Theatre Box Office and use code KINGFANS
121 Christopher Street (between Bleecker and Hudson)

As a Stephen King fan save $10 per ticket to Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at the Alliance Theatre April 4 – May 13 by using promo code KING10 *

Purchase your tickets prior to 12 midnight, April 1st and each ticket will be entered into a sweepstakes to win:

o Two VIP Center Orchestra tickets to the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County Opening Night performance on Wednesday, April 11th at 8 pm
 
o Two tickets to the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County VIP Opening Night party at the Four Season’s Midtown Atlanta following the Opening Night performance (transportation and lodging not included)

o One Stephen King autographed copy of 11/22/63

* Offer not available on previously purchased tickets.  Cannot be combined with other offers and valid while tickets are available.

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Constable & Robinson will release "The Mammoth Book of Body Horror" on March 1st. The expansive anthology includes "twenty-five stories of transformation, mutation and contagion" by some of the genres very best writers.

The collection includes Stephen's highly disturbing short story "Survivor Type" from Skeleton Crew. For more information please see our Library page at the link below.

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John Mellencamp and Stephen King’s dramatic “roots musical,” in the works for more than a decade, will finally debut this spring. Ghost Brothers of Darkland County debuts as a theatrical presentation beginning April 4 in Atlanta; a guest star-packed studio concept album will follow on May 22, via Hear Music, in both a single disc and 3-CD deluxe edition.

Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow, Taj Mahal and Neko Case are set to sing on the project, with Matthew McConaughey, Meg Ryan, former boxer Joe Frazier and Costello doing readings, as well. Both projects are produced with the input of producer T-Bone Burnett — who described the sound as “dark, foggy … and scary.”

The novelist King authored the narrative, while veteran singer-songwriter Mellencamp added music and lyrics. “It sounds like the Sgt. Pepper of Americana to me,” Mellencamp said in pre-release materials, adding that the goal was to make the recording sound something like “an old radio play” complete with dialogue and sound effects.

Other musicians who worked on the project include Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin and Will Dailey.

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Update: The entry period is now over. See the Facebook page at the link below for more information.

With the help of mosaic design technologies, Hodder & Stoughton offered thousands of readers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have their photo featured in the jacket artwork for the UK Edition of Stephen's upcoming novel The Wind through the Keyhole. For more information, see the Facebook page at the link below.

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Mile 81 is now available as an audiobook read by Thomas Sadoski. This release includes the bonus short story The Dune plus an extended excerpt from 11/22/63 – Audible.com’s Audiobook of the Year for 2011.

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