Stephen King News

Stephen King did; so can you. Divorce, illness, job loss. Pick a traumatic event in your life, then write about it.

Jack Torrance's little boy Danny was last seen recuperating in Maine after escaping the insane evil of the Overlook Hotel, but Stephen King is now plotting a sequel to The Shining which would age the clairvoyant boy to 40 and transport him to a New York hospice.

Stephen King has thrilled horror fans with the news he has started work on a sequel to his most famous book - The Shining.

The Green Mile ? Let's talk about 26 miles. The length of a marathon. Start the race and the movie together: The race would long be over before the film.

Stephen King has been letting a lot of juicy news tidbits slip while making book tour appearances.

Movies based on the works of Stephen King are already legion. As if the ton of film adaptations weren't enough, some films even spawned sequels.

"Under the Dome" gravely threatens Stephen King's status as a mere chart-busting pop- cultural phenomenon.

Reading frightening books helps youngsters deal with their fears, says bestselling Irish author John Connolly.

Mike White not only wrote School Of Rock , but he was an extremely likable contestant on The Amazing Race .

Stephenie Meyer's teen angst-fest sucks all the fun out of vampire mythology. The film may not be high art, but it knows how to entertain.

Photo: "Blue" by turnip[turnip] , member of the blogTO Flickr Pool . Events on Toronto's Radar for THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2009... lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar .

Last update: November 18, 2009 - 10:18 PM Stephen King and Audrey Niffenegger at the Fitzgerald Theater in St.

I work in a library, and my husband is a public library director. We both love to read.

Q What's on the stereo today? A I'm listening to a lot of alt-country -- Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robbie Fulks.

What: Stephen King and Audrey Niffenegger talk with Kerri Miller of MPR and take questions afterward.

Running through Stephen King's 1,100-page domesday novel - " and you will run through it - " one of your first thoughts will be: That didn't feel like an 1,100-page novel.

Tickets: $28 and $33 at ticketking.com When Stephen King was honoured with the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003, the National Book Foundation said, "He crafts stylish, mind-bending page-turners that contain profound moral truths a ' some beautiful, some harrowing a ' about our inner lives." And that was before Under ...

When the perennially prolific Stephen King announced in 2002 that he was giving up the writing life, many of his devoted fans admitted that might not be such a bad idea.

Under The Dome by Stephen King Hodder & Stoughton, 896pp, A 19.99 Review by STEPHEN MCGINTY I READ IT, Stephen King's 1,120 page masterpiece, and perhaps the first new hardback book I owned, in late January after my prelims.

If you have read a Stephen King novel exceeding 500 pages, you probably don't need to read "Under the Dome." If you do read "Under the Dome," you might not need to read another Stephen King novel again.