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Friday essay: in praise of the 'horror master' Stephen King

Growing up in the 1980s, the name Stephen King was synonymous with macabre, terrifying, apparently taboo (though ubiquitous) book covers. They seemed to appear everywhere: bookstores, to be sure; but also newsagents, supermarkets, cinemas, airports and libraries. They always seemed to be spinning in some library carousel, looking tattered, like…

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The Simpsons to parody Japanese anime Death Note in new Halloween special

The latest Treehouse of Horror episode airs this Sunday

Manchester Evening News

How Charles Cullen killed 29 patients in 16 years: The true story behind Netflix’s The Good Nurse

Eddie Redmayne portrays the serial killer nurse in Netflix’s dramatisation of the case, while Jessica Chastain plays the coworker who helped stop him. Clémence Michallon reports on the case that rocked New Jersey

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Top 10 horror short stories

With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in

The Guardian - UK

How Charles Cullen killed 29 patients in 16 years: The true story behind Netflix’s The Good Nurse

The Independent UK

Spooky horror series to binge-watch on Apple TV+ this Halloween

Who doesn't love snuggling up with a spooky series for a weekend?

Manchester Evening News

How Charles Cullen killed 29 patients in 16 years: The true story behind Netflix’s The Good Nurse

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How Charles Cullen killed 29 patients in 16 years: The true story behind Netflix’s The Good Nurse

The Independent UK

Chapelwaite review – a wife blasting off her husband’s head is the only thrill in this Stephen King bore

Adrien Brody is fine as a widower who inherits a creaky old mansion in this short story adaptation. But no amount of worms or shackled bathtubs can turn this into great horror

The Guardian - UK

‘Uncompromising’ Indigenous filmmaker Jeff Barnaby dies at 46

Writer-director Jeff Barnaby, who established himself as one of the leading lights of modern Indigenous cinema with the films “Rhymes for Young Ghouls” and “Blood Quantum,” has died at age 46.

Los Angeles Times

Top Halloween films to watch on Amazon Prime Video for every type of horror fan

It's the season for all things spooky and we have just the films for you

Manchester Evening News

The 5,000-year history of writer's block

Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes it seems that the muse has “gone out back for a smoke.”

The Conversation

From Elizabeth Strout to Stephen King, how Maine took over the literary map

Maine is the most isolated state in the continental US. Here, Amanda Whiting writes about how a place so small came to cast such an imposing shadow over American fiction

The Independent UK

‘It felt like the buildings were going to eat me’: The famous and their phobias

Whether it’s bugs, clowns, or even beards, there are a multitude of different fears out there – and no one is immune. Louis Chilton looks at some of the famous faces to have been gripped by irrational phobias, from Margaret Thatcher to Niall Horan

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Mr Harrigan’s Phone review – minor Stephen King gets minor Netflix treatment

Jaeden Martell stars as a teen who might be texting with a ghost in a languid tale that recycles familiar King tropes without adding anything new

Inverse

You need to watch Stephen King's scariest sci-fi movie on Netflix ASAP

'The Mist' is the perfect sci-fi thriller to kick off your spooky season. Here's why.

The Denver Post

The Stanley Hotel has re-created one of 'The Shining’s' most terrifying scenes

DENVER — Director Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 take on Stephen King’s “The Shining,” which was inspired by King’s creepy stay at Estes Park’s Stanley Hotel, contains a scene so disturbing that its mere mention sends fans into paroxysms of terror.

The Guardian - UK

Mariana Enríquez: ‘I don’t want to be complicit in any kind of silence’

The award-winning Argentinian author on how the language of horror fiction merges with her country’s history, what Stephen King taught her about writing and using ‘testers’ for her male sex scenes

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From satanic panic to billion-dollar business: how Dungeons & Dragons conquered the world

A role-playing game born half a century ago in a Wisconsin basement has spawned an empire spanning film, TV and YouTube. How did it leave its mark on Stranger Things, ET and everyone from Stephen King to Elon Musk?

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Best Of Friends by Kamila Shamsie and A Sliver Of Darkness by C. J. Tudor.

Chicago Tribune

Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

The Independent UK

Hotel that inspired ‘The Shining’ recreates iconic bathroom from terrifying scene

in 1980 movie Jack Nicholson’s character finds a silent and naked woman in bathtub of Room 237 of fictional Overlook Hotel

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh man's energy bill tripled after Scottish Power put him on 'default rate'

Stephen King, 60, says that he luckily was able to escape the deal but he worries that others out there may become trapped in extortionate contracts for years with energy providers.

The Guardian - UK

Peter Straub obituary

Award-winning horror writer whose novels included Julia, Ghost Story and the bestselling The Talisman with Stephen King

Los Angeles Times

Peter Straub, influential horror author and Stephen King collaborator, dies at 79

Horror writer Peter Straub, who cemented his place in the genre with works including “Ghost Story,” “The Talisman” and “A Dark Matter,” has died. He was 79. Straub’s son, Benjamin, told the Los Angeles Times he died “surrounded by love ones” in Manhattan on Sunday from complications due to a…

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