We talk about the 2013 novel Dr. Sleep.
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We talk about the 2013 novel Joyland.
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We talk about the 2012…thing…called A Face in the Crowd, co-written with Stuart O’Nan.
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We talk about the 2012 novel The Wind Through the Keyhole.
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We talk about the 2011 novel 11/22/63.
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We talk about the 2010 novella collection Full Dark, No Stars.
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We talk about the 2009 novel Under the Dome.
Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny, racism, suicide, torture, rape, necrophilia, addiction, eye and head injury, police violence, mass death, child and animal death.
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We talk about the 2008 short story collection Just After Sunset.
Content warnings for this episode include: domestic violence, misogyny, racism, fatphobia, body horror, homophobia, animal death.
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We talk about the 2008 novel Duma Key. A Florida classic!
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We talk about the 2007 Richard Bachman novel Blaze.
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We talk about the 2006 novel Lisey’s Story.
Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny, ableism, alcoholism, self-harm and mutilation, severe child abuse and death, stalking, sexual assault and violence.
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We talk about the cellular-phone oriented novel from 2006, Cell.
Content warnings for this episode include: ableism, child death, extreme burns, suicide, eye injury and head trauma.
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We talk about 2005’s crime novel The Colorado Kid.
Content warnings for this episode include: murder.
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We talk about the 2004 nonfiction book about baseball, Faithful.
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We talk about the 2004 novel The Dark Tower.
Content warnings for this episode include: animal endangerment and death, child death, automobile accidents and injury, mind control, mutilation, eye trauma, sexual assault, ableism, racism.
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We talk about the 2004 novel Song of Susannah.
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We talk about the 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla.
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We talk about the 2002 novel From A Buick 8.
Content warnings for this episode include: description of injuries from auto accidents, domestic and police violence, animal injury and death, body horror.
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We talk about the 2002 short story collection Everything’s Eventual.
Content warnings for this episode include: crude sexual humor, racism, misogyny, suicide, medical horror, insect horror, discussion of transphobic slurs.
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We talk about the 2001 sequel Black House.
Content warnings for this episode include: ableism, graphic descriptions of gore, violence, dismemberment, child death, cannibalism, gut wounds, eye trauma, and infection.
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We talk about the 2001 novel Dreamcatcher.
Content warnings for this episode include: body horror focused on parasitism and infection, bowel functions and injuries, ableism, fatphobia, misogyny, terminal illness and death, imprisonment and execution, drug use, alcoholism and addictions, violence against animals, suicide, racism, auto accidents and serious bodily injury, decapitation.
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We talk about the 2000 memoir / writing guide On Writing.
Content warnings for this episode include: description of serious automobile accidents and physical injuries, surgical procedures, and ear trauma; animal death, addiction and overdose, racism.
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We talk about the 1999 novellaish novel Hearts in Atlantis.
Content warnings for this episode include: automobile accidents, bullying, child abuse, ableism, racism, misogyny, rape and assault, graphic descriptions of serious injuries to the limbs and head, war crimes, child death.
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We talk about the 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Content warnings for this episode include: child endangerment and injury, animal death, alcoholism, addiction.
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We talk about the televisual novel Storm of the Century.
Content warnings for this episode include: homophobia and discussion of a hate crime, murder.
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We talk about Bag of Bones.
Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny, racism, rape and sexual assault, child death, suicide, description of sex acts.
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We talk about the fourth Dark Tower novel, 1997’s Wizard and Glass.
Content warnings for this episode include: sexual assault, racism, ableism, immolation, torture, child death, animal violence, addiction, terminal illness.
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We talk about the 1996 disaster The Regulators.
Content warnings for this episode include ableism, rape, extreme violence including injuries to eyes, face, and head; child death, racism, fatphobia, mind control, suicide.
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We talk about the 1996 doorstop Desperation.
Content warnings for this episode include animal cruelty and death, child death, body horror, mind control, racism, alcoholism, misogyny, domestic violence, mass murder.
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We talk about the 1996 serial novel The Green Mile.
Content warnings for this episode include racism, ableism, torture and electrocution, rape and murder, animal cruelty and death.
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We talk about the 1995 novel Rose Madder.
Content warnings for this episode include misogyny, racism, homophobia, antisemitism, domestic violence and sexual assault, miscarriage, childhood sexual abuse, urination, cannibalism, mutilation, and severe jaw-related injuries.
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We talk about the 1994 novel Insomnia.
Content warnings for this episode include misogyny, domestic violence, terrorism, fatphobia,homophobia, ableism, ageism, dismemberment, medical horror, torture and flaying.
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We talk about 1993’s short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
Content warnings for this episode include alcoholism and substance abuse, child death, childhood sexual abuse, abduction and sex trafficking, mutilation and wounding, racism, mind control, ingestion of sexual fluids, sexual assault, homophobia, dismemberment and brain injury, suicide.
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We talk about 1992’s Dolores Claiborne.
Content warnings for this episode include childhood sexual abuse, incest, misogyny, domestic violence, alcoholism, broken bones and bludgeoning.
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We talk about 1992’s Gerald’s Game.
Content warnings for this episode include discussion of sex acts and sexual fetishism, childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape, grooming and molestation, gaslighting, misogyny, necrophilia, cannibalism, discussions of blood, gore, and de-gloving (skin removal), racism, ableism.
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We talk about 1991’s Needful Things, the last Castle Rock novel (for now).
Content warnings for this episode include suicide, child and animal death, addiction and substance abuse, ableism, fatphobia, misogyny, bestiality, pedophilia, homophobia.
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We talk about 1991’s The Waste Lands, the third book in the Dark Tower series.
Content warnings for this episode include descriptions of sex acts and sexual assault, racism, physical abuse of a child, animal abuse, body horror, ableism, suicide.
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We talk about 1990’s Four Past Midnight.
Content warnings for this episode include child abuse, child sexual assault, alcoholism, addiction and substance abuse, vomit.
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We talk about 1990’s The Stand Complete & Uncut.
Content warnings for this episode include pandemics, illness, racism, ableism child death, rape and sexual assault.
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We talk about 1989’s The Dark Half.
Content warnings for this episode include alcoholism and addiction, medical horror, body horror, tumors, miscarriages, descriptions of violent murder.
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We talk about King’s 1987 novel The Tommyknockers.
Content warnings for this episode include: alcoholism, addiction and substance abuse; domestic abuse and manipulation; head trauma; suicide; animal cruelty and death; terminal illness; child endangerment and death; body horror, especially blood and tooth-related horror; dismemberment; mind control; misogyny, brief descriptions of sex and sex acts; homophobia and transphobia; racism; broken bones and joints.
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We talk about King’s 1987 novel Misery.
Content warnings for this episode include: addiction, alcoholism, imprisonment, torture, mutilation, ableism, fatphobia, auto accidents and leg injury, misogyny, animal death, racism, head trauma.
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We talk about King’s 1987 Dark Tower novel The Drawing of the Three.
Content warnings for this episode include: biting, finger trauma, wounds and infection, racism, misogyny, ableism, automobile accidents, head trauma, child pornography, drug addiction and overdose, decapitation, dismemberment, fatphobia, mind control.
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We talk about King’s 1986 doorstop novel IT.
Content warnings for this episode include: murder and death of children, dismemberment and decapitation, bullying, fatphobia, racism, mob violence, antisemitism, suicide, childhood sexual abuse, grooming, incest, domestic abuse, alcoholism and substance abuse, homophobia and gay panic.
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We talk about the 1985 short story collection, Skeleton Crew.
Content warnings for this episode include: school shootings, wounds and bleeding, gore, eye injury, racism, misogyny, fatphobia, amputation, cannibalism, drug use, pornography, ableism, suicide.
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We talk about the 1984 Richard Bachman book, Thinner.
Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of racism and racial slurs; descriptions of sexual acts, animal cruelty and murder; ableism, fatphobia, substance abuse, body horror focusing on AIDS panic, open wounds, skin diseases, and acne.
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We talk about the 1984 novel, co-written with Peter Straub, The Talisman.
Content warnings for this episode include: CW: racism, colonialism, terminal illness, homophobia, pedophilia and childhood sexual assault, physical assault, torture, ableism, crushing and dismemberment, animal death, drug abuse, insect infestation of the body.
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We talk about the 1984 novel The Eyes of the Dragon.
Content warnings for this episode include: rape, death in childbirth, drug and alcohol addiction.
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We talk about the 1983 calendar-then-novelish object Cycle of the Werewolf.
Content warnings for this episode include: ableism, facial mutilation and eye damage, mentions of alcoholism and suicide.
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Out from behind the Patreon wall as a special bonus, we talk about The Running Man, a film about a violent game show from 1987. We are joined in this episode by Simone de Rochefort!
CW: Brief discussion of scenes of sexual assault and exploding head FX.
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We talk about the 1983 novel Christine.
Content warnings for this episode include: choking and child death, fatphobia, suicide, vehicular assault and homicide, misogyny, stalking and domestic violence, ableism.
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We talk about the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons.
Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of racism and racial slurs, suicide, graphic descriptions of rape, sexism and misogyny, homophobia, ableism, fatphobia, anti-Semitism, Nazism, genocide and concentration camps, torture, mass shootings, decapitation, descriptions of bullying, physical assault and broken bones, brief discussions of real alleged incidents of sexual harassment, pedophilia, and grooming.
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We talk about the 1982 comic book Creepshow, written by Stephen King and adapted by Bernie and Michele Wrightson.
Content warnings for this episode include: misogyny, brief mentions of sexual assault, eroticized violence, dismemberment, suicide, death by insects.
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Content warnings for this episode include: discussions of representation of racism and exploitation; discussions of real incidents of homophobic hate crime.
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We talk about 1982’s The Gunslinger, the first entry in The Dark Tower series.
Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of terminal illness, car accidents and death, fatphobia, sexual assault and insertion of foreign objects into genitals, forced abortion, violence against animals and animal death, sexual abuse of a child, child death and suicide.
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We talk about Richard Bachman’s 1982 novel The Running Man. It is nothing like the film, but it does feature a high-stakes game of death spanning America.
Content warnings for this episode include: chronic and terminal illness; child death; maiming and mutilation of eyes; racism and racial slurs, misogyny, ableism, police violence, suicide, and generalized cruelty
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We talk about Stephen King’s 1981 dog-based horror thriller Cujo.
Content warnings for this episode include: child death, alcoholism and drug abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, bleeding, biting, and mutilation, suicidal ideation, ableism, classism, animal violence and death
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We talk about Stephen King’s nonfiction book on the horror genre from 1981, Danse Macabre.
Content warnings for this episode: Drug addiction and substance abuse, racism, misogyny, homophobia, fatphobia, trauma, child endangerment and death
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We talk about Stephen King’s second novel writing as Richard Bachman: 1981’s Roadwork.
Content warnings for this episode: cancer and terminal illness, depression and mental illness, self-harm, suicide, misogyny, racism, domestic/emotional abuse, extremely awkward graphic descriptions of sex
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This is a very special Just King Things bonusode out from behind the paywall to convince you to maybe check these bonusodes out over at the Ranged Touch Patreon. We had noted The Stand fan Kirk Hamilton onto the show to talk about the 1994 miniseries directed by Mick Garris.
Content warnings for this episode: Pandemics, illness, disease, death, kidnapping, emotional and physical abuse, fatphobia, bullying, sexism, misogyny, rape, substance abuse and drug addiction, torture and mutilation, suicide, racism, ableism, bodily waste functions, animal abandonment and endangerment
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We talk about King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, which is a wild ride.
Content warnings for this episode: medical experimentation, drug abuse and addiction, misogyny, rape, necrophilia, transphobia, sexual coercion, suicide, racism, ableism, pedophilia, grooming, murder, animal death
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We talk about Steve’s 1979 science fiction (!!!) novel The Dead Zone.
Content warnings for this episode: Alcohol and drug abuse, domestic abuse, head trauma and brain injuries, surgical procedures, car accidents, misogyny, racism, homophobia, child endangerment, rape and murder, suicide animal abuse and death
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We talk about The Long Walk, Stephen King’s second Bachman Book.
Content warnings for this episode: Executions and gun violence, vehicular violence, misogyny, racism, rape, mutilation and scarring, homophobia, bodily waste functions
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We talk about The Stand, Stephen King’s doorstopper novel about a plague, good, and evil.
Content warnings for this episode: Pandemics, illness, disease, death, kidnapping, emotional and physical abuse, fatphobia, bullying, sexism, misogyny, rape, substance abuse and drug addiction, torture and mutilation, suicide, racism, ableism, bodily waste functions, animal abandonment and endangerment
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We talk about Stephen King’s first short story collection Night Shift.
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We talk about Steve’s controversial 1977 book Rage, originally published under the name of King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman.
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We talk about 1977’s The Shining in this episode. It’s spooky!
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We talk about the vampires of ‘Salem’s Lot in this one. Steve published this one in 1975.
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We discuss Stephen King’s 1974 novel Carrie at length.
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