variety.com - 9/29/2009
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'Haven' for E1 on the smallscreen Stephen King is taking another stab at the smallscreen, signing on to turn his novella "The Colorado Kid" into an hourlong series for indie studio E1 Entertainment ("Hung"). Titled "Haven," the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where cursed folk live ...
aidanmoher.com - 10/6/2009
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Thanks to Suvudu for the head’s up! On
an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill,...
Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a ...
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Cover Art & Synopsis | Under the Dome by Stephen King
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suvudu.com - 10/6/2009
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As I've said, November is basically Stephen King
Month. But some very cool things are happening in...
October too! Yesterday the publisher Scribner released the cover for Under the Dome , the new massive horror novel by Stephen King. Scribner and ...
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Cover: Under the Dome by Stephen King
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... see what the look is like," said Collins, who plays the humanoid Martian princess Dejah Thoris. "It's really collaborative and really creative and I'm really excited about it. I think they're going for a really great tan, like the best-tan-you-can-ever-imagine type of thing." More King TV From The Dead Zone Team A Stephen King novella, The Colorado Kid, is set to become a TV series made by many of the same team who turned King's The Dead Zone into a six-season success. According to Variety the new show, which will be renamed Haven, is about a spooky town in Maine where ...
Stephen King’s Colorado Kid Under Assembly
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A pile of writers, Scott Shepherd, Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, former vets of King’s “Dead Zone” series are hard at work at 13 episodes of “Haven”, an adaptation of Mr. King’s “Colorado Kid” novella.“Haven” follows another crazy Maine town that houses folks with curses and the woman sent to keep the cursed under wraps when the damned begin to unravel. E1, the studio behind “Hung” is behind the effort. The Colorado Kid is one Stephen King work that I haven’t read but wikipedia doesn’t seem to agree with Haven’s premise at all. I’ll have to dig the “Kid” up and give it a look. Thanks Variety ...
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Interviews & Profiles: Iain M. Banks is interviewed by Time, The Independent, and the Scotsman. Mad Hatter's Bookshelf interviews Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker. The latest episode of Cult Pop features a video interview with Marcus Sakey. Harry Connolly is featured on John Scalzi's latest Big Idea post. Joseph Mallozzi's blog readers throw questions at actor Brian J. Smith (Stargate Universe). Wanna interview John Scalzi? John Scalzi is fielding questions about ...
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scificool.com 10/16/2009 — The town of Chester’s Mill, ME is changed forever on October 21st, when an invisible force field materializes to quarantine it from the rest of humanity. Not truly a dome as the title suggests, the mysterious barrier is more like a capsule that fits exactly over the town’s borders. ...
Review of Desperation by Stephen King
sffaudio.com 4/14/2009 —
Desperation
By Stephen King; Read by Kathy Bates
8 CDs - 9 hours - [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2009 (reissue from 1996)
ISBN: 9780143143895
Themes: / Horror / Possession / Small town / Spirits / God / Writers /
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sffaudio.com 3/20/2009 —
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By Stephen King; Read by Joe Mantegna
9 CDs - 10 hours - [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2009 (reissue from 1984)
ISBN: 9780143143901
Themes: / Fantasy / Horror / Gypsies / Curses / Magic /
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Mr. King’s Shortcut: Evolution, Gossip, and Character
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An Aside | New Dark Tower novel coming from Stephen King?
aidanmoher.com 15 days ago — Looks like it. Shawn Speakman , blogger at Suvudu and webmaster for Terry Brooks , found an interesting quote about one of Stephen King’s upcoming projects:
King stated he will write another Dark Tower novel. It will center around supporting characters and revolve around some ...
Out from Under the Dome
suvudu.com 16 days ago —
It is November 10th, the release day for the new Stephen King novel, Under the Dome !
This book is massive in the King lexicon; only The Stand and It are larger self-contained stories. It is a return for the King of Horror to the epic kind of stories he once told at the outset of his ...
Three Kings - Family Guy and Stephen King preview!
bookspotcentral.com 5/9/2009 — Sunday's episode of Family Guy , entitled Three Kings , is going to have a horror master Stephen King theme! Lots of Stephen King going on in TV already (see Lost ) but it never hurts to have what I'm sure will be over the top satire. The three segments will riff off of Stand By Me , Misery and ...
A New Dark Tower Novel!
suvudu.com 15 days ago —
There will be a new Dark Tower novel!
It seems the doors into Roland Deschain's universe are not entirely closed to Stephen King after all! It is widely known that such doors were not readily open to him over the years. It took ka to open them and ka can be a fickle thing. But it seems ...
An Aside | Game based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower coming in November
aidanmoher.com 10/21/2009 — GameSetWatch has details on an upcoming videogame based on The Dark Tower series by Stephen King:
Following its well-received comic book adaptations, Stephen King’s beloved The Dark Tower book series is expanding further to another new media form — video games. According to a ...