Stephen King Cast

This week I take a look at Stephen King's short story collection of the early 2000s, Everything's Eventual.  How does it fare compared to his other short story collections?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

In this week's episode, I examine Stephen King's OTHER evil car story, From A Buick 8.  What does this story tell us about loss and moving on?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

In this week's bonus episode, I examine the relationship between Black House and the Dark Tower series.  What does this novel tell us about the Crimson King?  The Breakers?  End-World?  Do the pieces presented to us in this novel fit into the final Dark Tower novels?  Find out this week! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Right here and now we flip back into the Territories to check back in with the boy hero from The Talisman, now all grown up and destined once more to use his abilities to save a life, this time the life of a young child who has his own abilities, ones that will be used to destroy not just the Territories, but the entire universe.  Today, ladies and gentlemen, we revisit Black House, the novel that is not only the sequel to the much beloved The Talisman, but also an extraordinary entry in the Dark Tower saga. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Damian Lewis. Jason Lee.  Timothy Olyphant. Tom Jane.  Donnie Wahlberg. Tom Sizemore. Morgan Freaking Freeman. Written by William Goldman. Directed by the writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Lawrence Kasdan.  This might be the most amount of talent ever included in a Stephen King movie. So. . .what went wrong? Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Childhood friends.  An extraterrestrial threat.  Derry, Maine.  There's no reason why this shouldn't have been anything other than awesome.  In a story that comprised psychics v. aliens, four friends go camping only to become embroiled in an intergalactic battle between invading aliens and an out of control army colonel.  What went wrong?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Anthony Hopkins makes his Stephen King debut in the adaptation of "Low Men in Yellow Coats", his introductory entry in the Hearts In Atlantis collection.  The novella tackled abandonment, rape, the end of childhood, young love, corruption of the innocent, determination of the human spirit, and the strength to continue fighting the system.  Can the movie successfully convey these themes?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

In this week's bonus episode, I take time getting to know the Can-Toi, introduced to us in the pages of Hearts in Atlantis as the Low Men as well as RF's role in the influence of a generation. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Stephen King's latest novella collection details the rise and fall of an entire generation. Unlike his previous collections, the stories within Hearts In Atlantis serve as interconnected vignettes that spotlight various moments in the life of the baby boomer generation.  Does he succeed?  And how does it fit into the Dark Tower?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

In this week's episode, I take a look at the little book that could about the little girl that could, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. In a few hundred pages, King crafts a harrowing tale of nine year old girl who demonstrates more bravery than any character in any of his works. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

King steps away from the larger than life concepts that he'd been exploring in the mid nineties to dive into an introspective look at love, loss and legacy.  It's his turn at the Gothic ghost story, a haunting love story: Bag of Bones. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Stick around for Dark Tower goodness! Wizard and Glass is a lynchpin text in the greater Dark Tower series. Pulling in new elements of lore recently introduced from Insomnia, visiting the post Captain Trips America from The Stand complete with your favorite Walkin' Dude, Randall Flagg, and more.  How do the events of this novel set up the concluding chapters of The Dark Tower series? Find out here in this special bonus episode.  As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com  

Please note this is the second part of a two part review. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Somewhere over the rainbow. . .is Stephen King's fourth entry of his Dark Tower series, The Wizard and Glass.  Signaling the pinnacle of a creative height of Stephen King's career, Wizard and Glass serves as a highlight to the Dark Tower saga. Detailing the most formative point of Roland Deschain's life, we learn how the boy became the man we know him to be.  Is this novel as great as many DT fans think it is?  Find out this week in this two part review of Wizard and Glass! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Tak! In September of 1996, Stephen King published two novels on the same day.  One was published under the pen name Richard Bachman I'm a wolf and the other, under his own publishing name, is the terrifying novel about faith v. despair in a small desert town: Desperation.  How does it fare?  Find out here at the Stephen Kingcast! Mi him en tow! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

This week, I examine Stephen King's most underrated novel, The Regulators. Published on the same day as Desperation, this entry, under the pen name Richard Bachman, is one of King's most high concept novels.  Perfectly skewering suburban life as well as offering up commentary on living with a difficult child, The Regulators is an action sci-fi with satirical horror elements that combine to make this novel  an incredibly imaginative journey. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

This week I take another stroll down The Green Mile, examining Frank Darabont's cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's classic.  How does this compare with Darabont's other Stephen King prison movie, The Shawshank Redemption?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

In 1996, King embarked upon a six month journey that provided a new installment of an ongoing serial for half a year.  The result? The much beloved The Green Mile. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

Do you remember Rose Madder?  The answer is, "probably not."   And you might be better off for it.  Why?  Find out this week in The Stephen Kingcast! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

With Insomnia, King introduces us to the big bad of his multiverse, The Crimson King.  He's a character whose legend will cast many of Stephen King's future works in a scarlet shadow.  This bonus episode analyzes the character as he's presented here in contrast to when we see him in The Dark Tower series.   Also in this episode, I place the Insomnia itself into context of the greater Dark Tower series as well as Patrick Danville.   So if you've completed your journey to the Tower, feel free to enter the Court of the Crimson King!   As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com