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40 years ago Bachman was exposed

Posted: February 9, 2025, 09:15
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Today it’s 40 years since Bangor Daily News released the news that Stephen King and Richard Bachman was one and the same and just like that we got five new books; Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man and Thinner.

We also found out that the man posing as Bachman on the cover of Thinner was in fact Richard Manuel from Roseville, Minnesota, a suburb adjacent to St. Paul and Minneapolis where he worked with energy-efficient housing.

Manuel was a friend of King’s literary agent, Kirby McCauley and agreed to pose as Bachman and according to himself he kept the secret.

”I didn't tell anybody, I was sworn to secrecy. Some friends called and said 'Hey, Dick, there's a guy that looks like you who's writing books in New Hampshire.' Even my sister called and said that.”

More info about Richard Bachman can be found here.

Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream Being Filmed

Posted: February 8, 2025, 18:42
According to The Post James Ashcroft will turn Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream into a movie. Not with Robert DiNero as the headline indicates. Question is if it’s a Dollar Baby or not…

Late last year, Ashcroft was browsing in a Los Angeles bookshop when he got an email.

It was from Stephen King, one of the world’s most famous writers and a master of horror stories.

Ashcroft had written to King some time earlier, saying how he admired the writer’s work, and wondering if there was any chance of collaborating on a project.

King said he loved The Rule of Jenny Pen, which had just premiered at a US film festival, and mentioned he had a novella Ashcroft might like to make into a movie.

The story was Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream, published last year to widespread acclaim.

“And the next day, his agent contacted mine,” remembers Ashcroft.

“And they said, ‘Stephen’s been saying no to everyone for about 18 months on this one, but he said if James would like to have a go at it, it’s his.’

“So he gave it to me for a dollar.”

(King is renowned for letting promising filmmakers adapt his shorter works for a dollar, while he retains the film rights.)

Stephen King: From Five Decades of Storytelling; Italian Edition

Posted: February 5, 2025, 13:56
I’m happy to announce that the Italian edition of Stephen King: Stories From Five Decades of Storytelling (Stephen King: 5 Decenni Di Scrittura) is about to be released. In about 2 weeks the limited edition (199 copies) will be out and then in March the trade edition will follow.


The editions will have different covers (this one if for the limited) and the limited will include photos that’s not in the trade edition.

King On The KingCast

Posted: January 29, 2025, 13:36
Sections: Book » The Talisman 3, Book » Never Flinch
Today King returns to The KingCast and during the hour they cover a lot. Here are the most important things that they talk about.

The Talisman 3
There will be a lot of Nebraska in The Talisman 3.

King is using Peter Straub’s words in The Talisman 3.

King confirms that The Territories are The Mid World and The Mid World are The Territories.

Characters from both The Talisman and Black House are in The Talisman 3.

Never Flinch
King rewrote Never Flinch completely after his wife Tabitha said it didn’t work.

Other news
King had an idea for the last book about the character Travis McGee (he shares part of it in the episode) but the relatives of John D. MacDonald said they didn’t want King to do the book so it didn’t happen and won’t.

It was King’s idea to do the harlequin cover for Misery.

King don’t have trunk novels but he have some unfinished stories that he thinks aren’t good enough.

Check out the episode (#265) here.

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