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King For A Year: Night Shift, reviewed by Stephen Bacon

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Monday, 12 January 2015. Night Shift, reviewed by Stephen Bacon. NIGHT SHIFT by Stephen King – 30 Years of Fear. So how has Night Shift fared in the near-three decades since I first read it? Come with me now, constant reader, and we’ll embark on a journey together through some of the greatest short horror fiction ever written. Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about Night Shift. There is a very melancholy tone about Night Surf. The plot of The Mangler. The same can be said for Trucks. Is a rather traditi...

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King For A Year: Skeleton Crew, reviewed by Phil Sloman

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Monday, 20 July 2015. Skeleton Crew, reviewed by Phil Sloman. Skeleton Crew was first released in the UK in 1985. It would be another eight years before I read it for the first time. So, how wise is it to revisit old loves from your adolescence? Is the second kiss just as sweet? Well, dear reader, let me reveal just that…. The stories vary in length (The Mist rocks in just shy of 150 pages, Here There Be Tygers is over and done with in six). The shorter tales are the ones you wonder if they would hav...

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King For A Year: 'Salem's Lot, reviewed by Matthew Craig

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Monday, 9 February 2015. Salem's Lot, reviewed by Matthew Craig. 8217;s knowledge of the country’s torment was academic. Time went on a different schedule there. Nothing too nasty could happen in such a nice little town. Not there. Late summer 1975: Benjamin Mears, a successful author recently widowed in a terrible accident, has returned to the. Town where he grew up to write a new novel. ‘. Like many of King’s earlier novels, “‘. 8220;What was down there? 8221; Royal asked. “What did you see? 8220;&#823...

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King For A Year: The Regulators, reviewed by Shaun Hamilton

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Monday, 18 May 2015. The Regulators, reviewed by Shaun Hamilton. I firmly believe the way you approach this book will dictate how you feel about it. And if you come at it having never heard or read Stephen King or Richard Bachman then I suggest you try any of the others listed. Sadly, things haven’t fared so well second time round. Before re-reading the novel for this excellent project, I tried writing a list of the elements and characters I could remember:. But what about the extreme violence? Upon the ...

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King For A Year: IT, reviewed by James Everington

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Monday, 2 March 2015. IT, reviewed by James Everington. My Dad, IT, And Me. IT was the first Stephen King book I bought myself. My dad introduced me to Stephen King when I was in my mid-teens, handing me his copy of Salem’s Lot ( which I wrote about in my blog My Dad, Stephen King, And Me. 8220;Um, you might not want to read that one,” my dad said. Why didn’t he just buy a new copy? Why didn’t he at least take his defective copy down from the shelves? I never really knew why. 6 March 2015 at 15:18. And y...

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King For A Year: Cycle Of The Werewolf, reviewed by Nadine Holmes

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Monday, 29 June 2015. Cycle Of The Werewolf, reviewed by Nadine Holmes. When asked which would be my favourite King novel, I would be hard pushed to pick just one. However, I can tell you the book that cemented me to be a life-long fan, and it was Cycle of the Werewolf. The story spans a single year in Tarker’s Mills, with each short chapter covering a single month. As each month goes by, the body count starts to rise and the murderer is inevitably called ‘The Full Moon Killer’. Archer, knife thrower, us...

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King For A Year: Different Seasons, reviewed by Dave Jeffery

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Monday, 27 July 2015. Different Seasons, reviewed by Dave Jeffery. When I agreed to contribute to ‘King for a Year’ the first book that came to mind was, of course, The Stand. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Hope Springs Eternal). Andy Dufresne is a banker who has been wrongly accused of killing his wife. Sentenced to life imprisonment, the story tells of Dufresne’s long-game plan to escape this injustice by building a tunnel that is obscured by poster girls. In truth, this story was not my f...

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King For A Year: Misery, reviewed by Jay Eales

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Monday, 22 June 2015. Misery, reviewed by Jay Eales. 8220;I’m your number one fan”. A phrase that’s embedded in culture. Sure, it was around before "Misery", something that authors would hear at public appearances or in fan letters, but Stephen King’s appropriation of the phrase gave it fresh life, and made it particularly creepy. So, which version of "Misery" is best, you ask? Is a fine place to start. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All of the contributors chose the subject of their review. The Baz...

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King For A Year: Mr Mercedes, reviewed by Steven Savile

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Monday, 3 August 2015. Mr Mercedes, reviewed by Steven Savile. First up, confession time. There’s only us here, so I don’t mind being honest. It’s not as if you’ll tell anyone, will you? I’d really enjoyed so much of that book, but then that end? Safe to get my hopes up? But it was written now and is a thing of its time. Mercifully, King showed incredible restraint, and that made the final scenes so much more powerful for me. But, if this was your first Stephen King, if you were some fourteen year old lo...

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King For A Year: Gerald's Game, reviewed by Ray Cluley

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Monday, 10 August 2015. Gerald's Game, reviewed by Ray Cluley. Gerald’s Game – a little bedtime reading. Let’s start with the setting. One need not be a chamber to be haunted,. One need not be a house;. The brain has corridors surpassing. 8221; he says. “How absolutely Freudian”. Well, as a development of that food imagery regarding the father-daughter incest I just mentioned, we also have Raymond Joubert. 1997) Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror. Ed. Stephen Jones. London: BBC Books. Breuer, Joseph., and ...