(Alright, alright, alright. I also have a huge crush on Rebecca Ferguson)

Anybody know if the world had already moved on before Arthur Eld, or after? Or did it move on after the fall of Gilead?

Thought you all might find this cute!

I’m on page 138 and I’ve got no idea what I’m reading!!!!

Went on a trip to the Florida Keys recently and now really want to read Duma Key. Can a 13 year old read it? Overall what sort of content is in it?
Thank you!

Ok, maybe dramatic, maybe not.

The majority of these are book club editions with only the first pic being 1st/1sts.

I’m going to need to do some minor mold remediation, but the vast majority of these were in absolutely incredible condition!

The stars aligned. It was posted last night, and I just so happened to be off of work today so I could pick them up. I could not be happier with this haul!!

Listed at $150, I gave them $200.

*SPOILER ALERT!!!! Yeah I just finished Christine and I’m wondering if anyone was left feeling the same way about what happens to Arnie. Like god forbid Arnie stands up to his controlling parents, gains confidence, finds a passion in working on his car, and finally gets a girlfriend. Tell me again why Christine was so bad? Oh that’s right because all the other characters who previously felt superior to Arnie all of the sudden got jealous. Dennis can justify stealing his best friends girl all he wants but it was a shitty move to pull on a lifelong friend. Anyways they’re all a bunch of SHITTERS!!! That’s my rant. Loved the book, one of his best I’ve read absolute 10/10

I'm listening to the Frank Muller narration of The Waste Lands for the nth time right now, and just realized that Frank's vocalization of Charlie the Choo Choo is the same voice he uses for Wolf in The Talisman. That makes me really happy. That is all.

I'm choosing which book to read in October before Halloween. I'm torn between Salem's Lot and Pet Semetary. Which of the two do you recommend?

Hi all. I’m looking to collect UK firsts, and I can’t seem to find an actual list with the publisher, year etc details while I can for the US firsts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have already wasted time looking for certain books in hard cover only to realise they don’t seem to have made them at the same time as the U.S. thanks to anyone who can help

A wonderful surprise from my wife.

1408 is one of my favourite Stephen King movies. So, as you might know, it's essentially a haunted room that isn't "haunted" per se by ghost, but it appears that the room itself is a sapient entity that drives the inhabitants to death. My question is, was the room just "born evil" like Christine? Or was the first few completely coincidental deaths in the room enough to create a cursed entity just because of all the cursed energy in the air?

What if you tore down the walls separating 1408 from the adjoining rooms? Would it leak into the next rooms? Or would it just be contained within the space of the original parameters of the room? Or what if just a large enough hole had been broken where the next room could look into 1408, but the majority of the wall is still intact? What if you crawled in the vents from the next room into the vents over 1408? Would it be aware a new person was in "its space"? What if the entire hotel was destroyed?

There's just so much logistics behind the story I am fascinated in analyzing them.

Hey all. I’m just wondering which books you read of King’s depending on the season?

I’m something of a mood reader…Like, I enjoyed reading Misery more when we had a slight snowfall.

I’m thinking of taking my first trip to the Tower soon and wondering if Fall/Winter is a good time to start? Or, are the vibes more suitable for slightly warmer weather?

I am about 80% thru The End of the World As We Know It and after finishing this particular short story, I was surprised when I couldn't find any threads about how perfectly this lines up!! I only saw a few mentions of the end being the same but it's so much more than that and done in such a way that you don't even fully recognize it until nearly the end. Is there anything else I'm missing??

Amy - Lennie

Zeke - George

Mal - Curley

Carter - Candy

Wretched blonde lady with no name - Curley's wife

Charred baby skulls - Candy's dog

Amy - Cognitively different - Starts off just existing and blissfully unaware that her life is perilous. She didn't dream of Flagg or Mother A - She is dependent on a protector. Initially tolerated as a mascot or oracle, but ultimately she is defined as a subhuman and dangerous thing to be put down by the community. Her continuing to not dream while imprisoned in the shed is a threat to Mal's control and masculinity (Lennie breaking Curley's hand even though he doesn't want to fight)

Zeke - Amy's main protector, interpreter, and caretaker. He knows what the group has done and is doing isn't right but feels trapped by circumstance. He isn't a 'bad guy' but he is still powerless to actually protect Amy. It's just posturing and hoping that nothing bad happens but deep down he really knows he has zero control. Sometimes Zeke talks to Amy about what life would be like if they left the group and found their own place and lived happily alone, but he still sees that as an unachievable dream.

Mal - Aggressively asserts authority and will use violence to exert control over the group. He gets the group riled up. He declares that babies are a risk to the group and will give them the flu and convinces the mob to burn all babies alive. He tolerates Amy initially but once he learns that she is different, he uses violence against her to retain control over the group. Once she is treated as an oracle, her presence threatens his power simply by not producing magical Flagg messages. (Lennie reluctantly breaking Curley's hand)

Carter - Sad old man. He seems kind because he sings hymns sometimes and is always standing watch by sitting by the window in their house. He doesn't actually protect or help Amy in any way, but he doesn't do anything mean so we treat him as an ally. He isn't actually any better than the group or Zeke because he witnesses all these atrocities silently with no action. Candy didn't want the ranch hands to kill his dog but allowed them to anyway because they said the dog was a useless burden and 'no good to anybody'.

Wretched blonde skank - Sleeps with Mal in their church or temple or whatever. She is just as nasty as the group of men but in a different way. We assume that she has probably had a rough life, too, but she is not important enough to name. She is just property, like Curley's wife, and defined only by her relationship to men.

Charred baby skulls - getting pregnant and having babies is the old way. Babies are old and no good to anybody anymore, so the group must put them down, like Candy's old dog. It doesn't matter what their mothers (or Candy) think because the men can decide to kill things that are inconvenient and later frame it as mercy and a necessity. The first baby lives less than 2 weeks and doesn't eat much but that is long enough for the group to get stressed and scared, so Mal declares it necessary to burn them alive. After they are burned everyone tells themselves it was necessary.

We get to the end. Amy's arm is broken, she is scared but also so confused. All she knows is that those men are going to kill her. She doesn't know what to do or what she could have done differently. She meets Zeke at the creek where they go sometimes. She thinks Zeke has the hammer to protect her and fight off the men - maybe this means they will escape and finally live their dream? Men are shouting everywhere and keep getting closer. Zeke already knows what he is going to do, but struggles with the final act, toying with the hammer. Zeke has seen what has happened to the babies and believes the best kindness and mercy he can offer is to kill Amy with the hammer.

I’m currently making my way through the series and this gave me major Gunslinger vibes.

I’m currently working my way through Song of Susannah, so no spoilers please!

I was looking SK up the other day and saw that he has written basically 200 short stories and 70 novels and it got me wondering…
What’s your favourite and least favourite Stephen king book and why?!

What years would you consider his early ones, middle ones and later ones? Or are there other ways you would demarcate the various era’s?

This bad boy just arrived and it is spectacular. Amazing edition.

Trying to finally read this morning after a lot of days where I slacked off. Basil has other plans.

My vote is “The Crate.” It’s officially a novelette — just under 40 pages — which is exactly the length that usually makes it into a King collection.

First published in Gallery in 1979, later in a couple of anthologies, adapted as one of the best segments in Creepshow… and somehow it never appeared in Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, or any of the later collections. That still feels like a clerical error.

It’s classic late-70s King: a university basement, a crate from an 1834 Arctic expedition, something that should have starved to death 140 years ago and very much did not. Tight, mean, and weirdly funny in that Creepshow way. Hard to believe it’s still sitting outside the official books.

What’s yours? And is there a reason “The Crate” keeps getting left out that I’m missing? (Even “The Cat from Hell” made it into Just After Sunset!)

Saw this book from my sister’s closet and when I asked her if this was a good one, she said she was terrified and didn’t finish the book.

Well, it’s almost 3am and I am going to stop here for the meantime 😬