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Want To Win A Signed King Book?

Posted: July 12, 2016, 12:03
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I hope you haven’t forgotten the contest where you can actually win a copy of The Folio Society’s beautiful edition of The Shining. And the copy will be SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING!!!

You can read all about it here.

One question that I have gotten is if you can only enter once for each household. Well, no. You can enter yourself, you can let your husband/wife enter, you can let your kids enter heck even you mother-in-law can enter. Just as long as it’s that person on the photos.

So, head over to the contest page and find out how you can be the owner of a signed Stephen King book no!

Pennywise Has Arrived...

Posted: July 12, 2016, 12:00
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Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård has arrived on the set of IT but have not been seen in his Pennywise makeup yet. Guesses is that since he has arrived he will soon try out the makeup. Should be very interesting to see how they do that. Stay tuned for photos as soon as I get them.

For more photos of Bill on set head over to Just Jared.

Lilja's Library Highlight: July 12

Posted: July 12, 2016, 09:00
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ON THIS DAY IN 2006...

...The first episode of the first season of Nightmares and Dreamscapes aired on TNT.



Here is my review.

Review: Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow

Posted: July 11, 2016, 15:44
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Here is my review of Just Desserts: The Making of Creepshow.

This is a great documentary that every fan of the movie “Creepshow” should check out. It’s amazing that so much from the filming is saved for us 35 years after it had its premiere. I feel privileged to have gotten the chance to see it.

Roland And The CGI Knife?

Posted: July 11, 2016, 14:30
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Here is a photo of Roland and one of the bad guys and if you look close you’ll see that the man has a knife in his back in the first photo (only the handle is sticking out) and then on the second photo it’s gone. On the second photo Roland is also holding in something. Could that be the knife’s handle? We don’t see the blade but maybe, just maybe, they will add a huge blade with CGI later on? What do you think?

Action Scene From The Dark Tower

Posted: July 11, 2016, 11:01
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Click for a larger imageHere are some photos that shows an action scene from The Dark Tower movie. As far as I can make out there is a shootout of some kind between Roland (Idris Elba) and Sayre (Jackie Earle Haley) in New York. And if you look close at Hackie’s face you can see small dots there. My guess is that they are there so that they can add some CGI on his face later on.

There is also a photo of Roland running (click on the photo for a better view) holding something in his hand. I can’t see what it is though…


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Meet Lilja & Lou On Blab Tomorrow

Posted: July 10, 2016, 00:19
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Tomorrow when Lou and I record our new podcast we will try something different. We will do a live chat on something called Blab. This is a test for things to come but we would like to invite you all to test it out with us. This will be totally improvised and anything can happen so it will be a lot of fun.

To enter you need an account at https://blab.im and then we’ll send out a link through facebook and twitter for you to click on and join us. This will be sometime around 10PM Swedish time/4 PM New York time and we would really love to see you all there.

Beryl Evans (From DT) Is Coming To Comic Con

Posted: July 8, 2016, 09:43
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Here are some very interesting news. On July 22 Beryl Evans will attend Comic Con and sign her book Charlie the Cho Cho.


Evans who? You might ask.

Well, Beryl Evans is a fictional author from The Dark Tower who wrote the book Charlie the Cho Cho and now she is at Comic Con signing her book.

What does this mean?

Well, that is hard to say but I would guess that there will be some kind of Dark Tower event at Comic Con this year. Exactly what we don’t know yet though.



Beryl Evans is the name of the author who wrote Charlie the Choo-Choo. In Wolves of the Calla, Beryl Evans' name is changed to Claudia y Inez Bachman when Eddie Dean and Jake Chambers go todash and visit The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind.

Thanks to Ed for this find!

Cool Korean Contest

Posted: July 7, 2016, 22:53
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This is so cool I had to write about it. King’s Korea publisher has decided to run a contest (that reminds me a bit about the one in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) with the release of the Korean edition of Finders Keepers. They have placed a ticket in several of the copies of the book and if you get one when you buy your copy of the book you can either win a copy of the book The Runner by John Rothstein (fictional character in Finders Keepers) or a cool T-shirt with the Jimmy Gold (fictional character in The Runner) quote “Shit don’t mean shit”.

The book The Runner by John Rothstein is in face a notebook since Rothstein only exists in King’s mind but it’s a really cool contest if you ask me and as far as I can tell the notebook and shirt only exists in a limited number and can’t be bought.




Where Will The Dark Tower Movie Start?

Posted: July 7, 2016, 15:27
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On a question about the plot of The Dark Tower, about where the first movie will start and so on go this reply from the moderator of King’s board.

No official announcements have been made about the plot or the additional cast members and won't be until later this month.

So, that makes me hope that we’ll know more about all this soon…

Win A Signed Stephen King Book!

Posted: July 6, 2016, 14:54
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Thank you all who have sent in photos for the contest! To make sure I got your photos please visit the photo pages and make sure your photo is there (allow up to a day for me to add them). It is so much fun to see all your photos and especially all you creativity with the Lilja’s Library once. Keep them coming and if you have photos of yourself on all six pages by August 31st you have the chance to win a copy of The Folio Society’s beautifully illustrated edition of The Shining, SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING!

Click here for all info on the contest.

Win A Signed King Book From The Folio Society

Posted: July 5, 2016, 11:57
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One of the things King Fans are always looking for is a signed book by the master. Years ago you could send a book to King and he would sign it for you. Eventually he had to stop doing that to get time to write his books. Today there are really only two ways of getting a signed King book. One is to attend one of the few signings he’s doing from time to time and the other is to buy a signed book which can be both expensive and risky (chances are you might end up with a fake signature if you don’t go through the right channels).

But today there is a third way. You can actually get a copy of The Folio Society’s beautiful first illustrated (illustrations by Edward Kinsella) edition of The Shining (read more about the book or buy a copy on their website) signed by King (there are only a limited number available) for free. Too good to be true? Not at all. All you have to do is enter this contest that I’m running.

To enter the contest you have to show me that you are a fan. And the way you do that is to send me photos of you and King’s books for the photo pages I have on the site. Please make sure it’s one book in each photo and the right book.

Mr Mercedes
Revival
Finders Keepers
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
End of Watch

For the last one, where you show you and Lilja’s Library you can do pretty much what you want as long as you and something connected to Lilja’s Library is in the photo. Check the page out for inspiration.

You and Lilja’s Library

If you send in a photo for all these 6 groups you will be in the drawing for the signed book. Easy right? And because I don’t want to force you to buy the books if you don’t have them you can print the cover from Internet and use that one for any of the books you’re missing.

Send the photos to info[a]liljas-library.com (replace “[a]” with “@”) and do it before August 31st.

So, in other words, you are 6 photos from the chance of having a signed King book. Not a bad place to be in right? Good luck to everyone!

The Man in Black, Jake and Roland in New York

Posted: July 3, 2016, 23:20
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Now we have photos of all three main characters from The Dark Tower movie. Eddie and Susanna might appear but so far we only know for sure that The Man in Black, Jake and Roland will be in this one and below you can see all three from this weekend’s filming in New York.

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Six Scary Stories With Intros by King

Posted: July 2, 2016, 00:06
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Cemetery Dance and Hodder & Stoughton will release the book Six Scary Stories this fall. Hodder as an eBook on August 25 and Cemetery Dance as a hardcover and tradepaperback on October 31. Please note that King has written the intros to the stories but not the stories themself.

Six Scary Stories
selected and introduction by Stephen King

Featuring full color cover artwork by Vincent Chong

About the Book:
Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology!

Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder & Stoughton are pleased to report has become a reality. The six stories are:

WILD SWIMMING by Elodie Harper
EAU-DE-ERIC by Manuela Saragosa
THE SPOTS by Paul Bassett Davies
THE UNPICKING by Michael Button
LA MORT DE L'AMANT by Stuart Johnstone
THE BEAR TRAP by Neil Hudson

Scott Landon's Playlist

Posted: June 29, 2016, 23:24
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Stephen King’s 2006 novel, Lisey’s Story, focuses on the character of Lisey Landon, widow of famous writer Scott Landon. King wrote the following letter (read it here) to explain the mix tape he created for Landon, which was discovered in Landon’s 1974 Ford Falcon.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

The Dark Tower Filming In New York

Posted: June 29, 2016, 21:21
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The Dark Tower will be filming in New York this weekend according to OLV.

Here is where they will be this weekend:

Thursday, 6/30: 27th St and Madison Ave, NYC
Thursday 6/30 – Friday, July 1: Walker St, NYC
Friday, 7/1 White St and Broadway, NYC
Saturday, July 2: 26th St and 3rd Ave, NYC

Read the entire article here.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

The Breathing Method Headed to TV

Posted: June 28, 2016, 23:11
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reports that The Breathing Method will be turned into a TV series.

In 2012, it was announced that Blum was developing The Breathing Method as a feature film project through Universal, with Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister) slated to direct from a script by Scott Teems. There’s no word on whether Derrickson will be involved with the television series. “It’s active,” says Blum. “It’s moving along.”

The Breathing Method, which is the only one of the four novellas from Different Seasons to not yet receive the big screen treatment, tells the bizarrely romantic and heartbreaking story of an elderly Manhattan doctor who recounts his long ago encounter with a pregnant woman who is determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, despite being poor and having no family. As the doctor teaches the woman his unique breathing method, to help her get through childbirth, he falls in love with her.

The television series will focus on the relationship between the doctor and the woman, which begins in the 1930s, which leaves lots of room to explore the relationship between the doctor and the woman’s child, a boy, who is born in the story after his mother is decapitated. He’s then put up for adoption but watched over by the doctor, who keeps track of the boy’s – and the resulting man’s – progress.

No network is currently attached.

I don’t know about you but I’m not that excited about this news. Sounds kind of boring actually. What do you think? Could this be a success if done?

Thanks to Herbert West.

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