This book has just been announced by Cemetery Dance (book) and Simon & Schuster (audio). Sounds like a really great collection with a new story by both King (The Turbulence Expert) and Joe Hill (You Are Released). The book will be released September 4 and here is all info about it.
By Stephen King and Bev Vincent
#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent to present a terrifying collection of short stories that tap into one of King’s greatest fears—air travel— featuring brand-new stories by King as well as Joe Hill, in addition to fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Dan Simmons.
Stephen King hates to fly.
Now he and coeditor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like—gulp!—a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before… but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger.
Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Dan Simmons, Flight or Fright is, as King says, “ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight.” This terrifying new anthology will have you thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Table of Contents:
—Introduction by Stephen King
—“Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis
—“The Horror of the Heights” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
—“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson
—“The Flying Machine” by Ambrose Bierce
—“Lucifer!” by E.C. Tubb
—“The Fifth Category” by Tom Bissell
—“Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds” by Dan Simmons
—“Diablitos” by Cody Goodfellow
—“Air Raid” by John Varley
—“You Are Released” by Joe Hill
—“Warbirds” by David J. Schow
—“The Flying Machine” by Ray Bradbury
—“Zombies on a Plane” by Bev Vincent
—“They Shall Not Grow Old” by Roald Dahl
—“Murder in the Air” by Peter Tremayne
—“The Turbulence Expert” by Stephen King
—“Falling” by James L. Dickey
—Afterword by Bev Vincent
Here is an update from Cemetary Dance on the US edition of Shining in the Dark:
The books are finished at the printer, but we discovered a major problem when they sent us the final approval copies: the printer completely missed printing and tipping in the interior artwork drawn by Erin S Wells. It's too late for them to fix this, so instead we¹ve created an exclusive chapbook of the artwork that will ship with your book. We think they'll make this special edition even more special!
Apparently Molly has been the inspiration to one (not-yet-published) story about a dog that’s terrified of alligators.
We ask if Molly functions as a muse for the author. “She’s a-MUSEing. But she’s a pain in the ass when I’m writing. She wants to go out and play ball!” Still, Molly has inspired at least one (not-yet-published) Stephen King story about a dog that’s terrified of alligators.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ran an ad during its own event to promote the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a new museum dedicated to the art and science of movies that’s slated to open on Wilshire and Fairfax in Los Angeles in 2019.
IT star Chosen Jacobs joins the cast of Castle Rock.
The young actor will star as Wendell Deaver, the son of Henry Deaver, played by André Holland. His character has been described as "a death row attorney with a unique and complicated history in the town."
Shining in the Dark is now confirmed for seven editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: March 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
King’s poem The Bone Church will be turned into a TV series.
Chris Long and David Ayer’s Cedar Park Entertainment has acquired Stephen King’s The Bone Church and will develop it as a TV series. Cedar Park will be the studio for the project as well. The Bone Church is a narrative poem that King wrote in the 1960s. He later revised it and the poem was published as part of a King anthology, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. In it, an adventurer organizes an expedition deep into a vast jungle land to locate the mythic Bone Church. They discover a secret not meant for the eyes of strangers. Only three of the 32 travelers escaped with their lives in a tale narrated by one of the survivors, who tells stories from a bar stool to patrons who’ll buy him drinks.
In this article it’s mentioned that Amazon is planing a TV show based on The Dark Tower.
As part of the effort, Amazon made a mega deal for a Lord Of the Rings TV series and is developing a slew of high-profile titles, including The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash.
Last podcast we looked back at 2017, this time we look ahead at 2018!
Plus our recap of the latest Stephen King news.
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2) 00:36 - Podcast Setup
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4) 30:21 - Reviews from the Night Shift: King in 2018
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Virginia Kull has been cast in Mr Mercedes.
Virginia Kull is set for a recurring role in Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network’s breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Kull will play Sadie McDonald, a nurse on the neurology ward— known as the “Brain Bucket” — at Mercy General Hospital. An epileptic who has recently gone off her medication, she’s prone to occasional microscopic seizures which pull her away from the task at hand. Her most famous patient is Brady Hartsfield, the infamous Mercedes killer.
Suntup Editions is releasing a limted edition of Misery. Read all about it and be ready to place your orders on February 12.
ABOUT THE EDITION
The Signed Limited Edition of Misery is published in three states: An Artist Gift edition, a Numbered edition and a Lettered edition. All three oversized editions measure 7.5” x 10.5”, and feature eight new full-color illustrations by Rick Berry, whose critically acclaimed work includes the Donald M. Grant editions of The Talisman and Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
ARTIST GIFT EDITION
Signed by Rick Berry, the slipcased Artist Gift edition features a dust jacket with stunning wrap-around artwork by Berry. It is a smyth-sewn binding with full imperial cloth, two-hits stamping on front and spine, and is offset printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell paper. The gift edition will be highly limited for a Stephen King book, and is the only edition of the three with the wrap-around dust jacket art.
NUMBERED EDITION
The Numbered edition is limited to 200 copies, and is signed by Stephen King and Rick Berry. The first 185 copies are for sale and numbered in black. The remaining 15 copies are numbered in red and reserved for private distribution. It is a full Japanese cloth, smyth-sewn binding featuring a blind stamped front cover, and a leather spine label stamped in 22K gold leaf. The edition is printed letterpress on Cranes Lettra Pearl White cotton paper, and housed in a custom clamshell box.
LETTERED EDITION
The Lettered edition is limited to 26 copies for sale lettered A-Z, and is signed by Stephen King and Rick Berry. It is printed letterpress on moldmade Arches wove paper with a deckled fore edge, and handbound in full crimson goatskin leather. Endpapers are marbled, and made exclusively for this edition. The binding is sewn and rounded with a hollow back designed to prevent sagging fo the page block.
The edition includes an original frontispiece print pulled from a wood engraving by renowned illustrator and designer Barry Moser. The print is limited to 26 copies and is signed by Barry Moser. The title is made using six original Royal glass typewriter keys which are inset into the cover, and the letter designation is a Royal key inset into the lower back cover.
The book is housed in a handmade walnut wood box designed to resemble an original Royal Model 10 packing crate. The case is laser engraved, and features a black suede-lined book bed.
Stephen King's official site has announces 2018's second Stehen King book Elevation. The book will be 144 pages and released on October 30. Elevation
By Stephen King
Release Date: October 30th, 2018
The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.
Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.
In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face – including his own -- he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.
From Stephen King, our “most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work” (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Stephen King has been in the public consciousness for over 40 years now ever since Brian DePalma adapted King's first book - Carrie - as a movie. As with any artist, King's profile has risen and fallen over the years but last year, King hit the latest apex of his popularity. An amazing feat for someone who has been in the game so long!
Plus our recap of the latest Stephen King news.
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Mike Flanagan is set to direct Doctor Sleep the sequel to The Shining. Warner Bros will release it and Flanagan will rewrite Akiva Goldsman's script, Flanagan’s producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg. Goldsman is executive producer.
Shining in the Dark is now confirmed for six editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Pre-Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: January 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
A Swedish edition of Shining in the Dark (Varsel i Mörket) is being released later this year. It will be financed by a Kickstarter in April and has a release date set for September. It will be in hardback and released in only 666 copies. The cover will be revealed at a later time…
Sad news today! Author Jack Ketchum, whose real name was Dallas Mayr, has passed away at the age of 71 after a long battle against Cancer. I was fortunate to get to know him a little when he allowed me to use his and P.D. Cacek’s story The Net in the anthology Shining in the Dark. You will be missed!
Children of the Corn: Runaway will be out on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On Demand on March 13. Check out the trailer.
“Children of the Corn: Runaway tells the story of young, pregnant Ruth, who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. Ruth and her son end up in a small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.”
Omega Underground reports that The Dark Tower TV show is set to start filming this summer in the UK and Ireland.
Now we at Omega Underground have learned that production is expected to begin sometime this summer in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. For obvious reasons expect a brand new cast for the proposed series. It should also be noted no network has yet to pick up the project.
Michael C. Hall will narrate the first ever unabridged recording of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary according to EW. This after a huge demand from fans for an audio book version.
Deadline reports that Tessa Ferrer has been cast as a series regular for season 2 of Mr Mercedes.
Grey’s Anatomy alumna Tessa Ferrer is set as a series regular opposite Jack Huston in Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network’s breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Production begins next month in Charleston, SC, on the Sonar Entertainment-produced Stephen King adaptation.
Ferrer will play Cora Babineau, wife of Dr. Felix Babineau (Huston) and head of marketing at a major pharmaceutical corporation, who’s even more ambitious than she is beautiful. If her husband has a genius for manipulating people from the inside out as he reaches into their brains and rewires them, Cora has a genius for influencing people from the outside in. Her beauty, brains and force of will, judiciously softened with poise and extreme charm, make her a formidable saleswoman, of whatever she’s peddling.
Raw photojournalist footage of a panel discussion from a SF/Horror convention held in Knoxville in 1983. Participants include Stephen King, Peter Straub, Karl Edward Wagner, Charles Grant, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Whitley Streiber, Dennis Etchison, and others.
Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja’s Library is now confirmed for five editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Pre-Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: January 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
The UK Limited edition of Shining in the Dark will be available in hardback this summer in a limited (350) signed by the editor (me) and the artist (François Vaillancourt) and numbered edition. This edition will have a different cover and new interior illustrations compared to the previous editions. You can order your edition here.
EDITIONS:
• Hardcover
• Limited to only 350 Signed & Numbered copies
• Personally signed by the editor and artist on a specially designed full-colour signature page
• Larger 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
• Printed on 90gsm acid-free paper, with your archive and legacy in mind
• Bound in full-cloth with coloured head and tail bands
• Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine for the ultimate presentation
• Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
• Sewn binding for increased durability
• Stunning dust jacket art & twelve never-before-seen interior illustrations by Francois Vaillancourt
• Extremely limited ONE-TIME printing of SST Publication's Special Signed Limited Edition—Only 350 copies will be available worldwide.
I’m back home from the trip to Sofia, Bulgaria where I promoted my book Shining in the Dark. I was there for almost three days and let me tell you, I had a blast! I arrived late Friday in Sofia, Bulgaria and was greeted by Vesela and Dimo from the publisher (Pleiad). They drove me to the hotel and being the darker time of the year, it was already dark out and it was hard to see what Sofia looked like. But I would get my chance during the coming days.
Saturday was the big day. A sunny Sofia greeted me and I arrived at Helikon just before 10 and after being introduced to a lot of nice people it was time to do a TV interview with Svetoslav Ivanov for bTV’s 120 minutes. It was done all in English so it was not that different to other interviews I have done. Svetoslav was very nice and easy to talk to so it went smooth.
Then it was time for the main event. The crowd was there, I was there, the moderator Asya Angelova was there and the interpreter Boya Delibaltova was there. I was introduced and that was when I really understood that this was going a lot different from what I’m used to. Not in a bad way but different. I realized that I didn’t understand a word of Asya’s introduction. The Bulgarian language is very different from both Swedish and English and I have to confess that I don’t understand one word. But Boya did a great job and translated for me. I then told the crowd about Lilja’s Library and the book; Shining in the Dark. This was followed by a Q&A session and a book signing and I really enjoyed talking to all everyone who had come there to check out my book.
This was then followed by interviews for Chetat li dvama and AzCheta.com, both in English.
After lunch, it was time for a radio interview with Georgi Mitov-Gemi for the show Knigi Zavinagi (Books Forever). My interview starts about 5 minutes into the show. This interview was also done with an interpreter and you actually hear more of her than me in the interview. This was also the only time during my visit that I tried to speak Bulgarian. Georgi asked me to say, “Hi this is Hans-Ake Lilja and your listening to Knigi Zavinagi”. After three tries Georgi was happy. I’m not sure if or where they used this clip though. Maybe it just ended up in the trash because to be honest I didn’t go a good job...
On Sunday, I meet with a bunch of Bulgarian bloggers for interviews. We drank coffee and had a great time. Talked about Stephen King, Shining in the Dark and the pros and cons of the movie versions of The Shining and the new version of IT. Sunday afternoon was spent sightseeing in Sofia. The nice weather continued and it was a nice afternoon.
On Monday before I left and traveled back to Sweden I was interviewed by Olya Stoyanova for the show Hristo Botev. This interview was on live radio so I was a bit nervous but I think I did a pretty good job. After that, my Bulgarian adventure was over and the only thing left was a 10-hour trip back to Sweden where I arrived late on Monday evening. Tired but extremely happy with my trip to Bulgaria. And for that I want to thank everyone who arranged the trip, the interview and the meeting with the readers of my book. You all know who you are and what you did and I’m not naming anyone and setting myself up to forget someone. And I also want to send a special thanks to Pleiad who started it all. Thanks!
PEN America will honor legendary suspense writer Stephen King with the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award at its annual Literary Gala on May 22 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. PEN America confers the Literary Service Award each year to a critically-acclaimed writer whose body of work helps us understand and interpret the human condition, engendering empathy and imagination in even the darkest hours.
Next week production on the second season of Mr. Mercedes will commence in February in Charleston, South Carolina. In the new 10 hour long episodes season we’ll see two new castmembers: Boardwalk Empire‘s Jack Huston and Sicario‘s Maximillian Hernandez.
Huston has been cast as Brady’s doctor, Dr. Felix Babineau and Hernandez will take the role of Assistant DA Antonio Montez.
Season 2 premieres on DIRECTV sometime this summer.
Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja’s Library is now confirmed for four editions and here is all the info you need.
The Bulgarian edition:
Release date: November 20, 2017
Edition: Paperback
Pre-Order: Pleiad Books Official site
The US edition:
Release date: January 2018
Edition: Hardback (signed by the editor and the cover artist)
Pre-Order: Cemetery Dance and Amazon Official site
The German edition of Shining in the Dark will be available in hardback in late July in a limited (1,250) signed (by me) and numbered edition. You can order your edition here.
Title: Shining in the Dark
Format: Leather-structure Hardcover with dustjacket, bookmark and stapmping
Edition: Signed (by the editor) and numbered
Price: € 49,99
Just a little bit of news but a lot of reviews and a big interview!
We review Joe Hill's - Strange Weather. Note: there will be spoilers for this segment.
Then Hans squirms waiting to hear Lou's thoughts on Hans's horror anthology - Shining In The Dark - celebrating 20 years of Lilja's Library as a website. The anthology contains the rarely seen Stephen King short story - The Blue Air Compressor.
Other stories come from Jack Ketchum, Richard Chizmar, Bev Vincent, Brian Freeman, Brian Keene, and more.
And the cherry on the top of our last podcast for 2017 is our interview with Brian Keene! Brian talks about his contribution to the anthology, his writing process, his podcast, and a variety of other subjects.
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2) 00:30 - Podcast Setup
3) 02:25 - News From The Death Room
4) Reviews from the Night Shift:
a) 09:12 - Joe Hill's - Strange Weather - SPOILERS
b) 34:25 - Lou's Review of Shining In The Dark - no spoilers
5) 43:36 - Brian Keene Interview
6) 1:19:28 - Podcast Signoff
7) 1:22:15 - Outro
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2017 is coming to an end but before 2018 takes over I would love to hear what your favorite memory/experience/item/happening connected to King (from 2017) is.
Mine is from September when I went to New York to hear Stephen and Owen read from Sleeping Beauties and talk about a lot of other things. Before the event I got to go backstage and say “Hi” to both Stephen and Owen and also (I had no idea he was going to be there) say “Hi” to Peter Straub. You can read more about it .
Please let me know what you’ll remember most when you think back to 2017 and Stephen King.
Come on fans of the King. Show yourself with you beautiful King books. I know you have the books and I know you have the camera (or phone). And I want to see it!
Send in photos of you and King’s books so that I can add them to the Fan Photo Page. Here are my photos.
Looking at all these I'm thinking I might need the next photo without the beard?
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Virginia Kull has been cast in Mr Mercedes.
Mike Flanagan is set to direct Doctor Sleep the sequel to The Shining. Warner Bros will release it and Flanagan will rewrite Akiva Goldsman's script, Flanagan’s producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Jon Berg. Goldsman is executive producer.
After lunch, it was time for a radio interview with Georgi Mitov-Gemi for the show 
On Monday before I left and traveled back to Sweden I was interviewed by 
