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The Walking Dead Chronicles

Posted: September 26, 2011, 10:21

Check out The Walking Dead Chronicles: The Official Companion Book (Release Oct. 4, 2011). It's the only authorized, behind-the-scenes guide to season one of The Walking Dead.

Focusing on the making of the first season of the Golden Globe-nominated TV show, as well as the creation of the New York Times bestselling comic book on which the series is based, The Walking Dead Chronicles is lavishly illustrated with never-before-seen unit photography, storyboards, set designs, makeup and visual effects shots, and page-to-screen comparisons of the comic and TV show.

I don't know about you but I'll be checking this out!

More from The Mason Award

Posted: September 25, 2011, 23:50

Here is one more clip from the Mason Award.

King's talk at the Mason Award

Posted: September 24, 2011, 21:13

Here are two clips from King's talk at the Mason Award last night.

And here are two photos from the event.

Thanks to Joe Camillieri

King reads from Dr. Sleep

Posted: September 24, 2011, 20:21

I got this very interesting news from The Mason Award Event that took place last night. It appears King is almost finished writing a sequel to The Shining, Dr. Sleep. It will be about Danny Torrence as an adult and some sort of vampire like people called "The Tribe" that drive around in mobile homes and feed on psychic energy.

King read a chapter from it at the event and the nice part of it is that there is a clip of it on YouTube!

King also signed books after the event for almost 3 hours. He signed any book that people brought but only 1 book each.

Thanks to Joe Camillieri

King commenting on time travel and 11/22/63

Posted: September 23, 2011, 23:43

Scribner has released a two minute video of Stephen commenting on time travel and the origin of 11/22/63.

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The Wind Through the Keyhole bumped up a month

Posted: September 23, 2011, 21:29

The moderator of King's official board shared this wounderful news today:

The release date for The Wind Through the Keyhole has been bumped ahead and is now anticipated to be released on March 12, 2012.

Octavia Books to host Stephen King

Posted: September 23, 2011, 12:14

King will be presenting his latest novel, 11/22/63 on Nov. 12 in the fine arts center at the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Tickets are $35 and include a copy of the novel, and Octavia suggests you don’t wait around. Read more here

Thanks to Bev Vincent

Walking outside the US

Posted: September 23, 2011, 11:35

Good news for all Walking Dead fans outside the US that has FOX. FOX will air the episodes just four days after they air in the US.

Win J. N. Williamson's Illustrated Masques

Posted: September 23, 2011, 10:02

Don't miss your chance to win a copy of J. N. Williamson's Illustrated Masques. It's a book worth trying to get your hands on...

"To officially welcome customers to Gauntlet's Facebook page we're having a sweepstakes to give away three copies of J. N. WILLIAMSON's ILLUSTRATED MASQUES. The first prize winner gets a signed numbered edition of the book (selling for $125 -- signed by all but King and Clive Barker) . The second and third place winners get the unsigned trade editions (selling for $50). Gauntlet doesn't have any say in the winners (so there will be no hanky panky). The company running the sweepstakes chooses the winners and once we get their names and addresses we ship out the books."
J. N. WILLIAMSON's ILLUSTRATED MASQUES contains graphic adaptations from the Masques series including Stephen King's "Popsy."

The URL for Gauntlet's Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gauntlet-Press/136185029812233?sk=wall. The contest will begin Tuesday September 27 and end Saturday October 2.

The Talking Dead

Posted: September 23, 2011, 09:01

AMC has ordered a talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick to air after The Walking Dead. Talking Dead, AMC's first live aftershow, will serve as a platform for discussion about The Walking Dead. The half-hour series will premiere after the encore presentations of the hour long drama on Sunday, Oct. 16. Beginning on Friday, Nov. 4, Talking Dead will air following the shows encores at 11 p.m.

Talking Dead will have Hardwick, who hosts G4's Web Soup, with fans, actors and producers and taking questions and comments from viewers. Hardwick also moderated The Walking Dead panel at Comic-Con this year.

King signings

Posted: September 22, 2011, 20:34

Here you can find all the info you need about these signings:

11/12/11 - Octavia Books, New Orleans
11/14/11 - Barnes & Noble, Sarasota, FL

King at the Savannah Book Festival in 2012

Posted: September 22, 2011, 16:17

King will be attending the Savannah Book Festival in 2012.

The Savannah Book Festival is thrilled to announce that best-selling, world-renowned and award-winning author Stephen King will appear as the guest of honor of the Festival, delivering the Closing Address at 3pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012 at the Trustees Theater in historic downtown Savannah.

Read more here.

Thanks to Bob

Win The Walking Dead

Posted: September 22, 2011, 08:27

On October 4th the first season of The Walking Dead is released in a special edtions DVD. Now you can (if you live in the US that is) win a copy of the limited blu-ray editon (see photo right) that also contains a Zombie mask designed Greg Nicotero (see photo right). Enter here

Today's Walking Dead clips

Posted: September 21, 2011, 12:17

Here is a clip about how they make the Zombie's clothes look burned.

Here is a clip from the special edition DVD/blu-ray that's released October 4th.

And a short teaser for season 2 (premiers October 16th).

Check out the full UK dust jacket for 11/22/63

Posted: September 19, 2011, 23:09

Here is the full dust jacket for the UK edition of 11/22/63.

Here's what the UK Galley for 11/22/63 looks like

Posted: September 19, 2011, 23:08

Here is a photo of the UK Galley for 11/22/63. It was produced in 70 copies and is 740 pages long.

Dexter promos

Posted: September 19, 2011, 11:07

Season 6 of Dexter starts on October 2:nd and here are two new cool promo posters.

New teaser for The Walking Dead

Posted: September 19, 2011, 09:14

As most of you know by now I really love The Walking Dead and look forward to the new season next month. So, when I found this new trailer I couldn't resist sharingit with you all.

Reviews for 11/22/63

Posted: September 19, 2011, 09:14

Reviews of King's upcoming 11/22/63 are starting to pop up here and there on the net but I have to admit that I haven't read one of them from start to finish. The ones that I have found reveal way too much for my taste so be ware if you find one, there are spoilers. And why post reviews so early? The book is still 1½ month away...

DT countdown reaches zero part 2

Posted: September 19, 2011, 00:53

I have been getting notes from people in other parts (than Sweden where I live) saying that their counter isn’t at zero like mine and after some research it looks like the person who did this countdown did it so that when the local time (from where you’re watching the site) turns into midnight the counter reaches 0:0:0:0. So, if that is the case we’ll just have to see when something happens…

Haven not in danger

Posted: September 19, 2011, 00:14

I just got word from the people behind Haven who assured me that the article about the series risk being canceled is totally wrong and written by a not very well informed reporter.

DT countdown reaches zero

Posted: September 19, 2011, 00:00

The countdown over at darktower.com has reached zero but unfortunately nothing happened...

Haven in danger?

Posted: September 18, 2011, 00:22

Could Haven be in danger of being canceled?

An uncertain future for the SyFy drama follows the Canadian drama channel canceling "Almost Heroes," and reordering "Lost Girl" and "King."

TORONTO -- The SyFy drama Haven from Entertainment One and Big Motion Pictures is on the bubble with Showcase channel in Canada.

Showcase programmers are to decide in two weeks on the future of the foreign-spawned drama, which is based on Stephen King's novella 'Colorado Kid' and shoots in Canada.

Haven left in limbo comes as Showcase canceled Almost Heroes, a sitcom about two brothers that starred Ryan Belleville and Paul Campbell.

The Canadian channel has ordered new seasons of Syfy’s Lost Girl from Prodigy Pictures and King, a female cop drama from Indian Grove Productions.

I'm trying to find out more as we speak...
Thanks to Herbert West

Details about King's signing in Florida

Posted: September 17, 2011, 23:53

Book Signing Central has found out some details about King's signing in Sarasota, Florida:

Date:
Monday November 14, 2011 7:00 PM

Location:
Barnes N Nobles
Sarasota II
4010 S. Tamiami Tr
Sarasota, FL 34231
941-923-9907

Read all details here.

A Night at the Movies: Horror with Stephen King

Posted: September 17, 2011, 23:44

On October 3rd TCM is running A Night at the Movies: Horror with Stephen King.

Stephen King discusses how he discovered terror at the movie theater. He takes viewers on a journey through many aspects of the horror genre, including vampires, zombies, demons and ghosts. He also examines the fundamental reasons behind moviegoers' incessant craving for being frightened. Along the way, he discusses the movies that have had a real impact on his writing, including Freaks (1932), Cat People (1942), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Night of the Living Dead (1968) and The Changeling (1980).

Read more over at Talk Stephen King.

King writing a letter to himself

Posted: September 16, 2011, 23:42

Dear Me. A letter to my sixteen-year-old-self is a collection of letters written by famous people (King, Hugh Jackman, Alan Rickman, James Woods and many more). It's a book that collects letters written by these people, imaginary sent to themselves when they were only sixteen. The book is edited by Joseph Galliano and has a foreword by J.K.Rowling. It'll be published october 25th by Atria Books.

Thanks to Ari

Latest on The Walking Dead

Posted: September 16, 2011, 12:09

Here are some cool images from season 2 of The Walking Dead.

And here is a new clip from the new DVD/blu-ray edition of season 1.

We have also gotten word that Greg Nicotero (who took home an Emmy for his prosthetic makeup) has been named co-executive producer of The Walking Dead and that he's also directing an episode during Season 2.

More on The Shining

Posted: September 15, 2011, 10:41

Here are more about the longer version of The Shining. I thought there would be a scene in which Jack danced with a skeleton as well though...

The Shining like you never seen it before

Posted: September 15, 2011, 10:38

Talk Stephen King found this interesting news. Personally I have been waiting for this version many years. Hopefully it will be out on DVD and blu-ray as well.

Rochester New York's Dryden Theater is showing Kubrick's The Shining -- like you've never seen it before. This version includes "coda cut from the original release."

Drew Grant at the New York Observer notes that Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist. "The Shining is actually in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most number of takes of a single scene. With that type of fascist filmmaking, you know that anything left on the cutting room floor of the 1980 Stephen King film was cut for a reason."

Grant directs readers to IMDB contributors express excitement at the new footage, saying ". . . it'll be the first time the footage has been seen since the original theatrical showing and before Kubrick had it removed." But they also spot a problem, "The only discrepancy here seems to be the running time they list. 142 minutes. That's the running time for the normal longer version. The Version including the Coda should be 146 minutes."

Zombie action

Posted: September 13, 2011, 23:00

It's very popular to do action figures of characters in TV series and movies. The Walking Dead is no exception. In November four characters from the TV series will be released as action figures. The four are Deputy Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Zombie Walker and Zombie Biter and you can read all about them here.

What do you think about action figures like these? Personally I think they are pretty cool. Not that I think many will buy them to play with but I bet they'll look pretty cool in the book case where you keep your movie collection, don't you think?

A day on the set of The Walking Dead part 2

Posted: September 13, 2011, 21:00

Here is the second part of a day on the set of The Walking Dead.

Walking Dead posters

Posted: September 13, 2011, 15:46

Once again AMC has succeeded in producing a great poster for The Walking Dead. They did it with season one and now they have done it again with season 2.

New teaser for Walking Dead

Posted: September 13, 2011, 10:12

Here is a new (very short) teaser for season 2 of The Walking Dead, enjoy!

Preview of book six about Dexter

Posted: September 13, 2011, 08:50

If you, like me, follow Dexter both on TV and in the books you can now check out the first pages of the upcoming sixth book (released October 18, 2011) called Double Dexter here.

Early reviews of season 2 premier of Walking Dead

Posted: September 13, 2011, 08:45

Critics who’ve seen The Walking Dead season 2 premiere episode tweet reviews

We’re just over a month away now from the much anticipated The Walking Dead season 2 premiere. AMC has been busy providing some critics with advanced copies of the first episode, and said people are now tweeting brief reviews that are getting us excited!

TV Guide’s Matt Roush:
- Wasn’t in mood for lunch anyway. But after getting peek at intense, graphic, xcellent #WalkingDead S2 opener, I only have appetite for ep 2.

TV Guide’s Adam Bryant:
- Walking Dead’s Season 2 premiere won’t let any fans down. It may, however, make a few of them puke. Can’t wait to see more.

The Walking Dead’s score composer Bear McCreary:
- Walking Dead Season 2 is going to be amazing. That is all I can say now. It will be amazing.

All I can say is "Where is my screener?" If anyone has seen this, let me know. I want to hear more about it.

And the winners are... (part 5)

Posted: September 13, 2011, 08:44

And the winner of the grand prize, an item (not determined what yet) signed by none other than Frank Darabont is Jarmo Haag in Finland. Congratulations!

A day on the set of The Walking Dead

Posted: September 13, 2011, 08:43

a href="http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2011/09/a-day-on-the-walking-dead-set-part-i.php" target="NEW">Here is an article about a day on the set of The Walking Dead.

New excerpt from 11/22/63?

Posted: September 12, 2011, 23:23

Scribner sent out an email about this excerpt from 11/22/63 today. It looks though as if it's the same as Dread Central posted some time ago... But if you haven't checked it out, make sure you do.

Thanks to Ari.

And the winners are... (part 4)

Posted: September 12, 2011, 22:45

Here are the three winners of books from Cemetery Dance:

The winner of a copy of The Secretary of Dreams (Volume Two) Slipcased Gift Edition is: Daniel Bauer

The winner of a copy of Riding the Bullet: The Deluxe Special Edition Double by Mick Garris and Stephen King (Format: Deluxe Oversized Slipcased Gift Edition) is: Jay Torreso

Congratulations to you all and check back later for when the grand prize winer is announced.

And the winners are... (part 3)

Posted: September 12, 2011, 22:35

Here are two more winners:

The winner of a slipcased copy of One for the road is: Paula Bowman

The winner of a copy of Granta 117: Horror with King's story The Dune (this prize will be sent out in October when it's released) is: Chuck Nelson

Congratulations to you all and check back later for when more winners are announce. There are still more winners...

And the winners are... (part 2)

Posted: September 12, 2011, 22:08

Here are the winners of the Haven and Dead Zone prizes (donated by Piller/Segan/Shepherd)

The three winners of Haven signed mini posters are: Ms Charlie Johnson, Brian Thompson and Rusty Lundgren

The three winners of season 1 of Haven are: Kevin Figiel, Jesse Lankford and Greg Mason

The winner of a entire season compilation of The Dead Zone is: Brad Carpenter

The winner of a season 3 Binder is: Marcus Gool

The five winners of a white Season 4 Dead Zone hat are: Ari Sippo, Gunnar Aho, Kris Moon, Irina Grozi and Mikka Hola

The five winners of a white Season 5 Dead Zone hat are: Uri Al, Minna Holm, Jo Ganna, Andrew Lash and Mika Kosi

The winner of a '07 Dead Zone satchel is: Gilbert Lopez

The winner of a black and red Dead Zone hat is: Bob Acron

The winner of a black and silver Dead Zone hat is: Viena Smith

Congratulations to you all and check back later for when more winners are announce.

And the correct answers are...

Posted: September 12, 2011, 21:40

Here are the correct answers:

Question 1: What date did Lilja's Library premier on Twitter?
Answer 1: May 5, 2010

Question 2: What format is the book version of Lilja's Library released in?
Answer 2: Hardcover and eBook

Question 3: Who have I done the most interviews with for Lilja's Library?
Answer 3: Frank Darabont and Robin Furth (3 each)

Question 4: Who created Marv: The Library Police (Lilja's Library's mascot)?
Answer 4: Glenn Chadbourne

Question 5: What magazine named the book version of Lilja's Library Book of the Month¡¨ even before it was released?
Answer 5: Fangoria

Question 6: Which of these links can you NOT find on ww.Liljas-Library.com a) Guest book b) Apply for a job at Lilja's Library or c) Donate?
Answer 6: b) Apply for a job at Lilja's Library

Question 7: What was the first item I reviewed for Lilja's Library?
Answer 7: On Writing (20/6-00)

Question 8: Easy one today: How did you first hear about Lilja's Library?
Answer 8: Nothing could be wrong here :-)

Question 9: On the front of my book there is a blurb from Peter Straub but who wrote the blurb on the back?
Answer 9: Frank Darabont

And the winners are... (part 1)

Posted: September 12, 2011, 21:38

Because there are so many winners this time (more than there have ever been) I have decided to announce them in portions. This is the first and this time it’s the prizes from Hodder & Stoughton) that’s at stake. All winners have also been notified by email.

The twelve winners of a limited edition mobile phone charms for Cell are: Adam Ric, Carl Beer, Nicole Brown, Jörgen Sten, Jukka Jonsson, Tom Aron, Frank Stich, Andrew Bar, Julia Somar, Hilta Gorg, Hiros Xaver and Roman Gulcha.

The three winners of a limited edition book marks for Lisey's Story are: Steven Murr, Andy Gord and Vanessa Gluck.

Congratulations to you all and check back later for when more winners are announce.

New Dexter trailer out

Posted: September 8, 2011, 08:49

24 day's until the premier of season 6 of Dexter and we have another teaser trailer. This one focus on the guest characters...and YES, Collin Hanks plays a bad guy!

Haven prop

Posted: September 7, 2011, 22:10

Got some really cool Haven prop in the mail today. One was a Haven Police Department (HPD) hat used in the series and the second was the boat that you can see in the beginning of episode 1 (Tale of Two Audrey’s) season 2. These are the actual boats that were used in that scene.

They used two boats while shooting the scene -- when one got too wet, they switched to the other one while someone used a hair dryer on the wet one.

King on the set of Bag of Bones

Posted: September 7, 2011, 22:08

Talk Stephen King found this interview with Melissa George about Bag of Bones in which she mention that King has been on the set. Can it be a cameo?

Inside The Walking Dead: Zombie Eyes

Posted: September 7, 2011, 14:00

AMC has released another behind the scenes video for The Walking Dead. This time we get to see how the Zombies eyes get to look in season 2...

Dexter kill chart

Posted: September 7, 2011, 13:47

For those of you that, like me, love Dexter, check out this chart of who and how Dexter has killed.

World War Z clip

Posted: September 7, 2011, 13:47

I love Zombies and enjoyed the book World War Z and now it's being turned into a movie which if it's as good as the book should be very interesting. Here is a clip from the filming.

Masques signed by Stephen King and Clive Barker

Posted: September 7, 2011, 08:50

I found the following press release in my mailbox today. Sounds like an interesting book, specially the signed lettered edition that will be signed by both Stephen King and Clive Barker.

Press Release – For Immediate Release

J. N. Williamson’s Illustrated Masques, featuring a graphic adaptation of the Stephen King story “Popsy” is now available from Gauntlet Press (www.gauntletpress.com).

J. N. Williamson's Illustrated Masques triumphantly returns in a 112 page beautifully produced full-color collectible from Gauntlet Press. Stories were adapted from such authors as Stephen King (“Popsy”), Robert R. McCammon (“Nightcrawlers”), Mort Castle, Paul Dale Anderson, Wayne Allen Sallee, Robert Weinberg and F. Paul Wilson. The book features:

- All original art digitally restored.

- New prose features from Mort Castle, David Campiti, and original Masques publisher John Maclay.

- A brand new, 16 page story: F. Paul Wilson's macabre masterpiece "Soft."

- A "continuity cover" by Clive Barker, "The Skull Tree," previously the cover image for the fifth and final edition of Masques The book is available in three states: a trade edition, a signed numbered edition and a signed lettered edition (the only edition signed by Stephen King and Clive Barker).

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