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Jessie and Gerald go to their lakehouse for a little end-of-season R&R which, hopefully, might help out their ailing marriage. Gerald interprets this as offering the opportunity to try out a little experimental bondage, and handcuffs Jessie to the bedhead. This is not to Jessie's liking but...

Genuinely - read no further if you want to avoid spoilers. When a boy is raped with a tree branch and savagely murdered, fingerprints, witnesses and DNA point to the much-loved local kids' baseball coach, and he is very publically arrested. It turns out that he has a solid alibi. Then tragedy...

OK, so what are the rarest SK books? As far as I'm concerned, book are for reading not investment, but I am aware that some books from popular/significant authors have greater rarity value than others, and SK is one of those authors. I have tried to collect hardbacks since I realised I'd lost...

I sure I must have commented somewhere at the time, but blowed if I can find it. Anyway, thoroughly enjoyed this relatively straightforward cat-and-mouse crime novel, with one reservation (and see also Revival). It's my birthday today - I'm 63. Also overweight and out of condition. Now if I...

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley A young woman wakes in a park, surrounded by bodies. She does not know who she is. She discovers letters left for her by the (previous?) inhabitant of her body, who was some sort of executive officer in an ultra-secret organisation which is kind of a supernatural...

That was very wicked of me to start a thread crammed with horror movies which, in my view, are simply too bad to bear watching. The least I can do by way of compensation is to offer up some movies which (again, in my view) may well be worth the time you invest in them. Not that many horrors...

Over the years I have watched some shockers. As is my habit, I do a little review afterwards. As a public service (he said, somewhat tongue in cheek), I offer up some of those reviews in the hope that I may be able to save some other unsuspecting souls from suffering what I had to sit through...

I'm trying to steer clear of spoilers generally here. It is obvious fairly early on that, for a number of reasons, Revival is dividing opinions among SK's regular readership, and one of the reasons for this appears to be that many see it as non-typical King work. One comment says "Where is...

I was trying to get my thoughts about each book distilled into as few words as possible. Feel free to comment, disagree, andd to, offer alternatives ettc. Carrie - A solid first published effort. Salem’s Lot - Scary vampire tale. The Shining - The horror novel as Literature: brilliantly...

I must confess - I have seen the Twiglet movies, all of 'em. I could lie and say that I did it so that you don't have to, but the truth is that I have a movie pass, so I saw them because they were on and it didn't cost anything. So I'm going to post the reviews that I wrote after I saw each...

Louis Creed moves to a new town with his young family. When their cat is killed, neighbour Judd shows Louis an old Indian burial ground in the woods behind their houses - One of King's nastier books is well adapted by director Mary Lambert. Fred Gwynne is excellent as neighbour Judd and...

I'm not sure when I first became aware of the Dark Tower books. I have been reading SK since Carrie was first published, but there was little fanfare about the DT books (over in the UK, at least), and I suspect that the first 2 books were out before I spotted these unfamiliar paperbacks (I...

Hunk Charles (Brian (Charmed) Krause), and his Mum Mary, (Alice (Borg Queen) Krige), move to a small town and Charles falls for local cutie Tanya. Unfortunately, Charles and Mary aren't so much people as cat-vampire thingies with appetites which don't go down too well with the locals. Mayhem...

Creepshow is the first of the Stephen King anthology movies. Directed by George Romero, this collects four King short stories from the Night Shift era and tells them within the format of one of the EC horror comics of the 50s. The stories are all very much that kind of thing - short, pithy...

The horror story lends itself to the short story format as readily - more readily, perhaps - as it does to the novel. Hence the fact that we see more anthology films featuring horror stories than any other genre. Stephen King writes doorstop sized novels, many of which have been filmed: he has...

Here's a tip. If you are a couple whose marriage is in trouble, it is something of a mistake to drive through the endless cornfields of Nebraska at night and then. Yes, I know I just spoilered the plot, but honestly. This movie - which spawned a franchise of increasingly poor sequels -...

I know enjoyment of movies is entirely subjective - there are movies the critics have loved which I have found awful: conversely, I have thoroughly enjoyed some movies which are acknowledged to be stinkers. But there are undoubtedly movies out there where something went massively wrong between...

I have seen this film - I had the DVD at one point - and I can remember virtually nothing about it, neither good nor bad. That fact amounts to my recommendation.

Four lads in their early teens have heard that there is a dead body lying in the woods some miles away and, out of morbid curiosity, go on a camping trip to investigate. Stephen King's novella uses this simple framework to create a work which examines friendship, family, remembrance, bravery...

Obese Billy Halleck, on the receiving end of a bit of how's-your-father while driving, runs down a gypsy woman, and finds himself on the receiving end of a curse whereby the weight falls off him for no reason: he has to try to find a way to get the curse taken away before the weight loss kills...