Just a quick email to remind you that Rose Red airs tomorrow in the
USA, so dont forget to watch it... And if anyone wants to tape it for
me (And send it to Australia), please let me know.

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Sorry for the number of emails this month, but I only just received
an important email. As most of you would be aware, Frank Muller was
seriously injured late last year, and the injuries were thought to
have been so severe that he may no longer be able to continue reading
audio books for a living.

Well Frank appears to be healing better than expected, and he has
spoken his first words only a few days ago after getting his jaw,
broken in the accident, unwired.

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SPECIAL KING EVENT
If you happen to be in the New York area, we've got an exciting event
for you! Rumor has it Stephen King will be reading from the new DARK
TOWER book at a special benefit reading for Frank Muller, the
acclaimed audiobook narrator whose tragic November, 2001 accident may
leave him unable to continue his career.

King joins authors Pat Conroy, John Grisham, and Peter Straub, a book
signing will follow, and all proceeds will benefit Frank Muller and
his family.

Stephen King Presents An Evening with Pat Conroy, John Grisham,
Stephen King & Peter Straub

A Benefit Performance for Frank Muller and Family

February 2nd, 2002
8:00 p.m.
Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY

For more information:
http://www.bitchen.com/muller/benefit.html

Ticket Prices
A $50.00 donation includes general seating for one

A $75.00 donation includes general seating for one

A $100.00 donation includes preferred seating for one

A $150.00 Donation includes preferred seating for one and one book of
your choice to be signed by author after the performance

A $250.00 Donation includes preferred seating for one and two books
of your choice to be signed by authors following the performance

A $500.00 Donation includes premiere seating for one and four books
to be signed by authors after the performance

All books are to be purchased at the event.

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David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello Everyone.

There is a great story on King and Rose Red on the TV Guide site. You
can find it here at the link below.

http://www.tvguide.com/magazine/issues/020121/magftr.asp

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I occasionally go and have a look at eBay for King books, but it
appears as though Brian Freeman from http://www.brianfreeman.com/
beat me to this interesting little find:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=1504081661

As Brian puts it, "You'll note that King apparently forgot
not only how he SIGNS his name, but how he SPELLS it, too."

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The band that has written 2 King related songs, NOW-is-NOW has just
finished 30 days in the recording studio completing their next album.
The final mixing is scheduled for March, and mastering for later that
month, so keep an eye out for their album in April or May... There
will be a few songs placed on their site, so keep an ear out for
them :-)

http://www.NOW-is-NOW.com

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I'm working on some updated to the page to move a lot of the short
stories into the new page for Everything's Eventual. The updates
should be online in a few hours.

http://www.horrorking.com/eventual.html

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I have been pretty quiet in updating the site lately as I have been
preparing to do a few jobs around the house, culminating in cladding
the house. This is now complete except for a little painting, so I
should have more time to spend on King :-)

All I need now is a new HDD for my PC, as my trusty old 3 year old
10GB drive that was used for websites, King material of all types,
and a general backup drive, looks like it has finally passed into the
great electronic afterworld. I think I'll have to get one of those
nice little 60 or 80GB drives when I see them at a good price, so if
you have any thoughts on the best brand, please let me know.

Thanks again for reading these little ramblings of mine.

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello everyone. I hope your 2002 has been good so far!

I received this email a few days ago and thought you might be
interested.

Stephen King fans a rare opportunity to bid on actual wardrobe pieces
and props from "Stephen King's Roes Red" movie at
www.abcauctions.com.  The king of horror himself has signed some
items. Beginning January 24, 2002, fans will be able to bid on
100 "Stephen King's Rose Red" items on www.abcauctions.com leading up
to ABC's premiere movie event, airing January 27, 28 and 31 at 9
p.m./8 p.m. Central

Proceeds from items signed by Stephen King will benefit The Wave
Dancer Foundation; an organization dedicated to the welfare, healing
and recovery of disabled professionals.

Some notable items being offered from January 24 through 31 include:

 Script Signed by Stephen King - a copy of the shooting
script with King's autograph on the cover
 "Ellen Rimbauer" Fan - a hand-painted fan opening to reveal
a bright red rose, that was created as a character prop for the lady-
of-the-house, Ellen Rimbauer

Additional King items offered from January 31 through February 7
include:

 Signed Stephen King Costume - Stephen King-signed white
cotton golf shirt is an authentic costume piece created for the
author's appearance as a pizza deliveryman in "Rose Red"
 Signed Crew Jacket - Stephen King-signed Rose Red ABC Crew
jacket

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American novelist Stephen King has hired a North Vancouver furniture
designer to make a writing desk for his Florida home.

The desk, which cost $40,000 Cdn., is the most prestigious sale yet
for Peter Pierobon, who has been showing his work at art galleries in
the U.S.

The desk is made from sapele, a reddish-brown mahogany-like wood from
Africa. It has two secret drawers and a mysterious line of raised
script on its black leather surface.

King, who is famous for his thrillers and horror stories, wanted the
phrase "All Things Serve the Beam," written in Gregg shorthand on the
desk top.

"I have no idea what that means," says Pierobon, who often uses
language-based decoration in his work as a way to communicate with
whoever uses the piece.  "I have never spoken directly to Stephen
King.  This has all been done through various middlemen on the
Internet."

King commissioned the piece after viewing Pierobon's designs at
www.johnelder.com, the Web site for the John Elder Gallery in New
York.

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The missing diary excerpt from The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer are now
online. These were not available on the website when the diary was
first released, but have now appeared. Thanks to Peter Grey for the
URL.

http://www.beaumontuniversity.net/missing.html

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The following list is the order of stories in Everything's Eventual,
which is due VERY shortly!

Autopsy Room 4 (Six Stories)
The Man in the Black Suit (Six Stories)
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
The Death of Jack Hamilton
In The Deathroom
The Little Sisters of Eluria
Everything's Eventual
L.T.'s Theory Of Pets (Six Stories)
The Road Virus Heads North
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe (Six Stories)
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French
1408
Riding The Bullet
Luckey Quarter (Six Stories)

Bev Vincent reported the following about King's selection of the
order of the stories in the book:

King said: "What I did was take all the spades out of a deck of cards
plus a joker. Ace to King = 1-13. Joker = 14. I shuffled the cards
and dealt them. The order in which they came out became the order of
the stories, based on their position in the list my publisher sent
me. And it actually created a very nice balance between the literary
stories and the all-out screamers. Next collection: selected by
Tarot."


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Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello Everyone

Just a few new things this time.

According to Peter Straub, there may well be yet another Talisman
book in the future. Peter reportedly mentioned this at a recent
signing, and said that it may be in about 5 years. Let's all cross
our fingers!

- - -

Lilga from Lilja's Library http://www.liljas-library.dot.nu
reports: "Today I got confirmation from both King's UK publisher
Hodder & Stoughton and his US publisher Scribner that King's 4th
short story collection will be released in March 2002. The title of
the collection is Everything's Eventual, just like King's short story
from 1997 that was then published in Fantasy & Science Fiction. All
the titles of the stories that the collection will contain haven't
been revealed yet. What has been revealed so far is that it will
contain the story LT's Theory of Pets and some fifteen other stories
unpublished, or previously only published in private collections or
magazines. The collection will be well over 500 pages long."

- - -

The November 26¡¦th issue of Total Movie Magazine will contain a nice
bonus for subscribers ¡V a copy of Jay Holben¡¦s short film Paranoid on
DVD¡K If only I was in the USA & subscribed to the magazine ƒ¼

- - -

From a Buick 8 has been delayed from March until September 2002, but
do not be too disappointed, as there is going to be another book
released in March 2002. Remember all those stories like Everything¡¦s
Eventual that have been a pain to collect? Well about 15 or 16 of
them will be released in King¡¦s 4th short story collection
titled ¡§Everything¡¦s Eventual¡¨ in March 2002, and it will be over 500
pages long.

This was the book that was rumoured to be One Headlight.

- - -

More information has been added to the information about the movie
versions of Dreamcatcher and Dolan's Cadillac.

- - -

That's it for this email.

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello everyone.

Horrorking.com has been updated to show the complete list of
characters for Black House. Also I have added some of the links
between books as well, but this still needs work. I have also added
links to buying the books at Amazon.Com, Amazon.co.uk and Barnes &
Noble.

http://www.horrorking.com/blackhouse.html

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Thank you to everyone that signed up for the Black House official
Online Team at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackHouse. If you have
not yet signed up, this excellent team's goal is to spread the word
about Black House, and to provide information about to book to the
team members. Don't worry, you won't be spammed or overrun with e-
mails from this group, as, like this group, only the moderator is
allowed to post, so you will only get real Black House news!

Fingers crossed, if more of you join this group, I may be in the
running for some of The Talisman books they are giving away, and any
that I do win will be given away to members of the Horrorking.Com
group!!! Yep, if you get this e-mail, you could be in the running for
a copy of The Talisman! I have already received one copy of The
Talisman, and decided to give it away to one of the group. See below.

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If you have not already seen the Black House e-card, go to
http://www.babblebox.com/artists/k/king/blackhouse/. You will need
the Apple Quicktime 5 player to view it, but that is available for
free at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download and will take less
than 20 minutes to download and set up. I have been told that the e-
card is regularly updated too!

Sorry, but Web-TV users are unable to view the card. If you are like
this, and know someone with a normal PC based net connection and
would like a copy of the card sent there, please let me know and I
will send the link.

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I have one copy of The Talisman to give away to a member of the list.
This name was drawn at Random by my 4-year-old son Jacob. That person
is… Norma Blackburn. Norma, could you please contact me via e-mail at
david@... with your postal address. Congratulations.

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Cemetery Dance, publishers of some excellent limited editions in the
past, has announced they will publish a
limited edition of Stephen King's next novel, FROM A BUICK 8. Bernie
Wrightson will be doing the artwork for this magnificent book. If you
were wondering what to buy me for my birthday… (Grin)

http://www.cemeterydance.com

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Brian Freeman, of  http://stephenkingnews.com has notified me of an
excellent new contest that he is running.:

STEPHENKINGNEWS.COM/CEMETERY DANCE SPECIAL OFFER: Cemetery Dance
Publications (http://www.cemeterydance.com) and StephenKingNews.com
have teamed up to offer you a chance to win some
incredible prizes, including a copy of the SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of
FROM A BUICK 8, a limited gift edition of FROM A BUICK 8, a LIFETIME
subscription to the Cemetery Dance Magazine, plus one-year
subscriptions and even free copies of the current issue of Cemetery
Dance Magazine!

You can sign up for the contest by joining his excellent Stephen King
mailing list at http://stephenkingnews.com (if you do so, please let
Brian know that I referred you to his site, so I can enter the
competition as well - PLEASE!).

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Paul Caccamo, the President of AMERICA SCORES e-mailed me recently
and said that Stephen King and the band the Rock Bottom Remainders
are doing a Halloween benefit concert for the charity, AMERICA
SCORES. Their goal is to help raise money for our literacy programs
which help thousands of kids in inner-city public schools.

100% of this event is charitable. Check out this site for more info:

http://www.americascores.org/landing/index.htm

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A small clip of Stephen King and Peter Straub's interview on The
Today Show has been posted on the net. Check under Today Show at this
link: http://www.msnbc.com/m/v/video_news.asp

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That's it for this email. Thanks

David
http://www.horrorking.com

As many of you will now be aware, the United States of America has
just seen one of the largest single terrorist attacks ever, starting
at 8:45am on September 11, 2001.

Four hijacked American and United Airlines planes have crashed, two
into the World Trade Center's two towers just 18 minutes apart, one
into the Pentagon an hour later, and one apparently missing its
intended target and crashing in Pennsylvania, southeast of
Pittsburgh. Over 260 passengers and crew were killed on the 4
aircraft, and an untold number have been killed and injured
on the ground.

The World Trade Center's two 110-story towers, which have 40,000 to
50,000 staff, have been completely destroyed, as well as the nearby
Building 7. Reports also say the Marriott Hotel near the World Trade
Center is on the verge of collapse.

New York City reports at least 78 police officers missing, 200
firefighters presumed dead, although this number will surely be
updated in the next few hours.

My family and I would like to send our condolences to everyone
affected directly and indirectly by this deplorable incident, and let
you all know that we are thinking of you in your hour of need. I know
a few of you live in and around the New York area, and at least one
works at the World Trade Center. If you get the time, I would
appreciate a quick note letting us know you are all OK.

Regards
David Rawsthorne
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello everyone

Only a week to go until Black House is here with us!

There has been a "Black House Official Online Team" created in Yahoo,
and their main objective is to spread the word about the release of
Black House and this team online.

They have contests and real giveaways that focus around spreading the
word about the release of 'Black House', and all you have to do is
join the Yahoo team (Which is, of course, free). They expect 1 to 2
emails a week from the team, so you will not be swamped by emails if
you join.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackHouse

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The US paperback edition of Dreamcatcher has a release date of the
27th of November 2001. This was initially rumoured to contain an
excerpt of From a Buick 8, but this will not be the case.

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Scribner's Spring 2002 catalog gives this longer description for From
a Buick 8:

Ever since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural western
Pennsylvania have kept a vintage Buick Roadmaster-or what looks
almost just like one-caged in Shed B out back of the barracks. That's
when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call about
its driver gone missing from a gas station just down the road. Wilcox
knew old cars, and he knew this one was suspect. When Rafferty
vanished a few hours later, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew it
was worse than dangerous-and that it would be better if John Q.
Public never found out about it. Mostly the car sleeps (that's one
way of putting it, anyway), but even as it sleeps it breathes-
inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of
whatever world it came from.

In the fall of 2001, Wilcox's eighteen-year-old boy Ned starts coming
by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow.
Sergeant Commanding Sandy Dearborn knows it's the boy's way of
holding on to his father, killed in the line of duty in a gruesome
auto accident. Missing his father, Ned is allowed to become part of
the Troop D family, and one day he looks through a window of Shed B
and discovers the family secret. Just like his father, he wants
answers. And the secret begins to stir.

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That's it for this newsletter.

Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com

BRIDGTON — Stephen King's appreciation for the care he received at
Bridgton Hospital after he was hit by a car in 1999 has earned the
hospital another $750,000.

OneBeacon Insurance, the company that insured King for property and
casualty insurance, donated the amount three weeks ago in an
agreement with King that ended a lawsuit he had filed against the
insurer.


You can read the full text of the story here:
http://www.portland.com/news/state/010830king.shtml

David,
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello everyone,

There has been no newsletter for a while due to my winter holidays -
Since most people in the list are located in the USA, you are
probably saying winter??? Well, yes it is winter down here in
Australia, at least for the next couple of days. We had a bit of
snow, so we decided to spend a while up the coast to 'thaw out'.

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Black House

Only a few weeks now till Black House arrives, and many bookstores
around the globe expect the book early, but some will not be selling
it until the expected release date.

Black House has it's website up and operational now at
http://www.blackhousebook.com There is some great information on the
site, including a short excerpt, a map of the area and even more.
It's well worth a detailed look, expecially the windows wallpapers!

For an audio excerpt read by Frank Muller (a little over 6 minutes),
you can go to
http://randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0739300105

and while you are at it, you can get a longer version of the excerpt
at
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?
isbn=0375504397&view=excerpt

There is an excellent review of Black House now on Amazon.Com as
well.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-
/books/0375504397/reviews/ref=ase_052379122979/103-4657259-1997434

**Due to the length of these links, you may have to cut and paste
them into your browser.

Lilja, of Lilja's library (http://www.liljas-library.dot.nu) mentions
an excellent interview with Peter Straub about Black House on the
Publishers Weekly site. You have to register to read it, but
registration is free.
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?
layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA152899

Random House has also mentioned that there will be an "enhanced e-
book" version of Black House, with "never-before-seen notes from the
authors and editor". Looks like we may have to buy both version this
time around!

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Dark Tower 5

The Prologue to the Dark Tower 5 is online! Available on the official
Stephen King Website, this .pdf file makes interesting reading.
http://www.stephenking.com

We know that king has completed more than 50 pages of the Dark Tower
5 so far, but one interesting thing is that the original working
title - The Crawling Shadow - looks like being dumped for a different
final title.

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The Firestarter miniseries has a new title. Previously it was known
as Firestarter: The Next Chapter, but it's final name appears to be
Firestarter: Rekindled.
http://www.horrorking.com/movies2.html#Firestarter2

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Not too long after we get Black House, we also get to see Hearts in
Atlantis - the movie, which is due September 28, 2001

Directen by Scott Hicks, from a screenplay by William Goldman, this
tells the story of the friendship between Ted Brautigan, played by
Anthony Hopkins, and young Bobby Garfield, played by Anton Yelchin.
The movie also stars Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan
Tudyk, Tom Bower, Celia Weston, Adam Lefevre, Will Rothhaar, Deirdre
O'connell and Timothy Reifsnyder.

You can download a trailer for the movie, but be warned, it IS big!
http://www.empiremovies.com/movies/2001/heartsinatlantis.shtml

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Site updates:

Some more updates to the site, including links to the Rose Red tie-in
book, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, due in
January 2002, just prior to the February 2002 release of Rose Red.
http://www.horrorking.com/rosered.html

I added a link to the movie page regarding Strawberry Spring, a movie
that was released at the St. Louis Local Filmmaker Festival on July
29, 2001.
http://www.horrorking.com/movies4.html#Strawberry_Spring

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That's about it for now, but expect the next update to (hopefully)
say that the character list for Black House, as well as the links
contained in it, is online... I can hope can't I???

Regards

David
webmaster http://www.horrorking.com

Hi everyone.

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Special editions of "Duddits" with original signature of Stephen King

Next Monday, 23 April, we celebrate the "World Day of the Book" with
a special contribution by Stephen King. The master of suspense has
handsigned ten special german editions of his new novel "Duddits".
He will put them up for auction at "http://www.welt.de/auktion" on
the 23rd of April. The auction on the net will start in the morning
at 8 am CET, ending at 8 pm in the evening. The Proceeds will go to
two german non-profit organisations, which are promoting
literature: "Bayern liest" and "Stiftung lesen". "Welt.de" is one of
germans leading daily newspapers in the web.

http://www.welt.de/auktion

(PS - it might help if you are able to read German in this site!)

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I have added a heap of new links to the site, but this time they are
not to websites, but books for sale. Yes, I finally finished the
links to Barnes & Noble. They are linked from each of the book pages,
and I will be adding more as time permits.

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I have added the description to Talisman 2 - Black House to the
website at http://www.horrorking.com/blackhouse.html

It's worth the read! There will also be excerpts available on the web
soon - I'll keep you posted!

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Christina Starobin is a poet, author and assistant adjunct professor
at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, N.Y claimed that
Stephen King stole some ideas from her novel Blood Eternal and added
them to Desperation. Well here is an article from the New York Law
Journal April 25, 2001.

A federal judge in New York has dismissed with disdain a complaint by
a writer and adjunct literature professor who claimed that prince of
horror Stephen King stole her work.

U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of New York shot down Christina Starobin of
Saugerties, N.Y., for engaging in a "recurring and vitriolic attack
upon the character and abilities of King."

Starobin v. King and Penguin Putnam Inc., 00-CV-0185, stems from a
complaint brought by Starobin, a poet, author and assistant adjunct
professor at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, N.Y.

Starobin had written a novel, "Blood Eternal," about vampires who run
a car service in suburban New Jersey. The copyrighted novel was
submitted to Penguin and then returned to Starobin on Sept. 20, 1996.
Two days earlier, King copyrighted his novel, "Desperation," which
was published by Penguin.

The complaint alleged that King, whose 40-plus books have sold
millions of copies, is essentially devoid of literary talent, could
not have written "Desperation" on his own and pilfered from the work
of Starobin during the three months her manuscript was in the
possession of Penguin. About the only similarity Judge Hurd found
between the two novels was that, in his opinion, neither was very
good.

"There are no common characters, locations or occurrences shared by
her novel and King's," Hurd wrote. "There are no common references to
popular culture, historical events or common sequences of
events ... . When the two works at issue are viewed as a whole, it is
utterly beyond dispute that no reasonable person could regard them as
similar, much less substantially so."

The judge added that he was not all that impressed with King's
literary abilities either. Hurd said he had never before read a
Stephen King novel, and was not exactly enthralled by the horror
writer's tale of an evil spirit that emanates from a mine in the
Nevada desert and possesses passers-by, transforming them into
homicidal maniacs.

"Quite frankly, neither work was a particularly good read," Hurd said,
referring to "Desperation" and "Blood Eternal," both of which he said
were read cover-to-cover.

Regardless, "Desperation" spent some 15 weeks on The New York Times
best-seller list in hard cover and was highly successful as a
paperback.

LITERARY CREDENTIALS

Starobin repeatedly contended that her literary credentials are
superior to King's, and that assertion alone established an issue of
fact as to whether King is capable of writing "Desperation."

She attempted to bolster that point with this statement from her
plaintiff's memorandum:

"Although plaintiff's having graduated Harvard cum laude, gone on to a
Masters in English and Comparative Literature at Colubmia [sic] and a
PhD in English at New York University does not mean intelligence
[sic], it does mean a long number of hours reading books other than
Grisham and other best sellers and exposure to philosphy [sic], plot
and symbolism in heavy enough doses to become queasy with the
superficiality espoused by [defendant] King."

Judge Hurd, however, termed Starobin's conduct "reprehensible,"
considered her character attacks on King unseemly and found
it "disheartening that a person of plaintiff's education and self-
professed abilities would resort to such attacks, particularly in
light of the obviously baseless nature of her claims."

Starobin argued pro se. Peter A. Herbert, of Lankler Siffert & Wohl in
Manhattan, appeared as co-counsel for King. Also representing the
defendants, including the publisher, were Gerald E. Singleton, Maura
J. Wogan and Yuki A. Hirose, of Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein &
Selz in Manhattan.

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Production of the new miniseries "Firestarter: The Next Chapter"
began on April 17 and is due to be aired in December 2001. It stars
Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Danny Nucci and Dennis Hopper.

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That's it for this email. Please feel free to forward this email to
King fans, and encourage them to sign up and receive the newsletter
themselves.

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi again everyone, and welcome to the new members. Please feel free
to forward this, and any other Horrorking.Com newsletter, to other
King fans and interested people, provided it is not altered in any
way.

Over the last few weeks or so I have been very busy doing an update
that people have been asking for - an online book & movie store.
Where I used to have the links to each of the books from Amazon.Com,
and Amazon.co.Uk on the respective pages, there are now simply links
to a "bookstore" for each of these suppliers.

I thought this would make it easier for people to track down books
and movies that they dont have, and also see what is available, all
on one selection of 6 pages.

The pages have just been updated, so to see the new-look bookstore,
have a look at http://www.horrorking.com/amazonshop/store1.html and
http://www.horrorking.com/amazonukshop/store1.html for the Amazon.Com
& Amazon.Co.Uk stores.

At the moment I hope that all the Amazon.Com links have been added,
and about 90% of the Amazon.Co.Uk links.

I am also in the process of adding new links for Barnes & Noble, so
people have a wider selection of ordering options. This should be
complete in the next few days, and online by the end of the week.

If any of you find ANY problems with the pages, or have ideas on how
to make it better, please let me know. I still have headings on the
pages to complete, and a few links to add, but the pages are
basically complete.

Thanks for visiting Horrorking.Com

Regards,
David
http://www.horrorking.com

This excellent information is from Lilja of Lilja's Library!
--
Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King: http://come.to/liljas-
library

Finally it's here! We have all been waiting for it to be released;
the US cover for Black House is finally out! Personally I like it but
don't take my word for it. Check it out in "The News Section".

There is a lot of Black House news today. As if it wasn't enough that
the cover is now out Random House told me that they will start
releasing excerpts from Black House on their site in about three
weeks. They also confirmed that the new paperback edition of The
Talisman would contain a chapter of Black House

Not bad right?

In other news. I have also added another article about King buying a
house in Florida to my site. It's basically the same as the earlier
one. The difference in this one is that it's got a comment from
Marsha, King's assistance.

Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King: http://come.to/liljas-
library

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Thanks!
David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi everyone,

Stephen King has just purchased a home at 1600 N. Casey Key Road in
Palmer's Northerly Subdivision of Park of Casey Key. King paid a
reported $8.9 million for the property.

You can read the full report at the link below (You may have to cut
and paste this into your browser due to the length)

http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/050801/tp2ew6.htm?
date=050801&story=tp2ew6.htm

This article has a picture of the house:

http://www.newscoast.com/2news.cfm?ID=45193

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From King's website: No decision has been made yet about a winner of
the writing exercise outlined in On Writing. We are still going
through all of the entries and do not expect to pick a winner until
this Fall.

http://www.stephenking.com

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Also from King's Website: Although a film titled Insomnia starring Al
Pacino is currently in production, it is not based on Stephen's book
of the same name.

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Some of you will have noticed that the links to Riding the bullet &
other 'online' books have been removed. This is because Softlook has
ceased its online commerce operations.

I'm not that happy this has mainly because I'm still owed quite a few
$ from them, so if anyone has ideas for other King related material
to fill in the spaces left, then please email me.

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Mick Garris has commented on the upcoming 'The Talisman' mini-
series: "Yes, TALISMAN is real. The deal was just made. It's with
DreamWorks, Kennedy-Marshall, and ABC. Don't know when, since the
strikes might happen, but I'm about to begin the script, working from
the feature draft by Richard LaGravenese. No cast yet."

Sounds interesting...

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That's in for this newsletter. Dont forget to let me know if you hear
any interesting King info.

Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com

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What did you think of Dreamcatcher?

   o King's best work ever!
   o Extremely good, close to his best work
   o Pretty good.
   o Not real good, and close to his worst book
   o Terrible! This is his worst book ever!


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Thanks!

Hi Everyone.

I have done a few updates to Horrorking.Com in the last few days.
Firstly a bit of information on the movie adaptation of Patrick
McGrath's Asylum, which will be done by King.

I am yet to read the novel, it is set in an English insane asylum,
where the superintendent's wife falls in love with one of the
patients, a murderer.

http://www.horrorking.com/asylum.html

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The next Dark Tower book The Dark Tower V: The Crawling Shadow,
should now have been started already. Steve expected to start work on
this early in 2001, so fingers crossed for an early to mid 2002
release. It was initially stated that the DT series that are left to
write, DT5, 6 and 7, will be released all at once. I personally doubt
they will, and we may see them released a few months apart.

http://www.horrorking.com/dt5.html

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One Headlight is the working title of a new Short Story collection
that will be released in about 2003. This will be the third book of
his 3 book contract (the others being Dreamcatcher and From a Buick
8).

http://www.horrorking.com/oneheadlight.html

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Black House, The Talisman 2, is due to be completed by the end of
March, and is scheduled for a September 2001 release. The book will
be a sequel, but not a continuation of the original, as Jack Sawyer
is now thirty-one years old, retired, and living in a farmhouse in
western Wisconsin.

http://www.horrorking.com/blackhouse.html

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I have added a new quiz to the pages. This one is for Dreamcatcher.
Dreamcatcher full character list is also online, and I have started
working on the links to each of Kings other books, and some are
already online.

Dreamcatcher: http://www.horrorking.com/dream.html
Quiz: http://www.horrorking.com/king_quiz3.html
Links: http://www.horrorking.com/common1.html#Dreamcatcher

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That's it for this newsletter. Feel free to pass this email on to
your friends, and get them to join the list. Don't forget to let me
know if you hear of any new King related information, and I will pass
it on to the rest of the people out there.

Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi everyone!

Brian Freeman just sent this information for the US subscribers:

Bryant Gumble has interviewed King for THE EARLY SHOW on CBS.  The
interview will air in two parts starting tomorrow -- Monday, March
19th, and it will conclude on Tuesday the 20th.  Check your local
listings for more information!  Thanks for the update, Lilja!

Thanks Brian. http://www.stephenkingnews.com

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Horrorking has had one fairly large addition - the character list for
Dreamcatcher. It's not totally complete, but will be finished in the
next day or two as time permits. be warned, even the information
contained in the character lists contains a LOT of spoilers (And a
few familiar faces!)

http://www.horrorking.com

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Regards David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi Everyone.

It's been a busy month for additions to the Horrorking mailing list -
almost 100 new members in the last 4 weeks. Welcome to all the new
members, and thank you for joining.

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Something of interest for everyone out there - Time are providing
excerpts of Dreamcatcher for you to read starting March 5th - ONLINE
for FREE!!!

Dreamcatcher won't be available at stores until March 20 (Actually
it's been released in Australia already - I'm getting my copy
tomorrow - I hope!), but on three consecutive Mondays -- March 5, 12
and 19 -- TIME.com will release printer-friendly excerpts from the
book of around 3,000 words each.

http://www.time.com/time/dreamcatcher/

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Simonsays also has some excellent postcards that you can send to your
friends. Thanks to the people that sent the link.

http://www.simonsays.com/events/DreamCatcher/

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Lilja's library (http://come.to/liljas-library) reports:

King placed number 13 on Forbes list of the most powerful entertainer
in the world.

The list is based on a combination of income, number of articles,
attention on TV and radio and number of hits on the web.

Here is the list:
1. Tom Cruise
2. Tiger Woods
3. Beatles
4. Britney Spears
5. Bruce Willis
6. Michael Jordan
7. Backstreet Boys
8. 'N Sync
9. Opera Winfrey
10. Mel Gibson
11. Mick Tyson
12. George Lucas
13. Stephen King
14. Steven Spielberg
15. Michael Schumacher

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Brian Freeman (http://www.brianfreeman.com) reports:

In the Borders bookstore chain's free monthly newsletter INSIDE
BORDERS there is a 2 page spread revealing King's thoughts about how
refreshing it was for him to write the first draft of Dreamcatcher
the old fashioned way, by hand.  The issue also has one additional
page with an article about King's hometown Bangor.

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Jack Ruby has done an excellent review of the script for the Dead
Zone TV series that has been adapted by Star Trek producer/writer
Michael Piller and his son, Shawn.

http://www.fandom.com/smilinJackRuby/editorial.asp?
action=page&obj_id=262728

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That's it for this email. Have fun reading Dreamcatcher & I hope to
have some character lists online in the next week or so.

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi Everyone.

It looks like Yahoo have finished the updates and takeover of
Onelists's group. Although it's a new address, it's still the same
newsletter :-)

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All That You Love Will Be Carried Away, is the title of King's new
shory story in The New Yorker Magazine. If you missed the copy at the
newsstands, you can order it from The Overlook Connection.

I have yet to read the story, but it wont be long before more
information is on Horrorking.Com

http://www.overlookconnection.com

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Stephen King has also decided to try something new - He has adapted
yet another story for the screen. Not a new thing you say? Well this
time it's a story from another author! Stephen King has adapted
Patrick McGrath's novel "Asylum" for Paramount Pictures.

It's an interesting story that has the wife of an English insane
asylum's superintendent falling in love with one of the patients, a
murderer.

You can get the original book from here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679781382/davidrawsthornss

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Thanks for Desiree Coulter for the following:

Sylvester Stallone looks set to play the bad guy opposite Kevin Bacon
in an adaptation of the Stephen King short story "Dolan's Cadillac,"
the Popcorn.com movie news website reports.

The story concerns a woman who witnesses a mob murder and is in turn
murdered to protect a crime boss, to be played by Stallone. Bacon is
in talks to play the dead woman's husband, who seeks revenge from the
mob kingpin.

Bacon enjoyed a recent box-office breakthrough of sorts with "Hollow
Man," although Stallone has suffered a series of career setbacks,
most recently a poorly performing remake of "Get Carter."

http://www.canoe.ca/JamMovies/feb6_sly-can.html

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Brian Freeman of http://www.brianfreeman.com/ tells us that there is
a new Pocket Book Edition (Feb 2001) of Pet Sematary that has a new
introduction about the book by King.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743412273/davidrawsthornss

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While stumbling around Stephen King's site yet again, I noticed that
they have placed the income and expense report on The Plant online!
King made a modest profit of $463,832.27 so far from The Plant, which
is quite good from a story that is not yet finished. Let's hope that
when he completes the story in a few years that he also decides to
place them on the website as well.

http://www.stephenking.com/PlantNumbers_010101.html

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Cemetery Dance have finally given a firm date for The Stephen King
Universe, a book about King by Stanley Wiater & Christopher Golden
with Hank Wagner. Initially this was to be printed about 12 months
ago, then late last year. Now printing is set for March this year.
I'm not sure how many of the books are left, but the book is
available in two types -

Slipcased Limited Edition of 1,000 signed and numbered copies for
US$75

Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies for US$350

I personally ordered the Slipcased version, so I'll let you all know
about it when it arrives.

http://www.cemeterydance.com/html/wiater.html

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Stephen King's Paranoid has been made into a movie, but the new news
is that the film has been completed. The delay in the release of the
film has been caused by 2 pieces of music used in the initial film's
version being used before permission was completed. The cost of one
of the pieces was 15 times the completed film's budget, and the other
was 25 times the completed film's budget!

The website, only a little over 2 months old now, has some
interesting new news:

February 9, 2001
At our two month anniversary online, the official website for Stephen
King's Paranoid has logged over 3500 hits from 45 different countries
around the world and more than 1100 downloads of the trailer. Thanks
to everyone who has written in with wonderful comments, and thanks
for your patience while we finalize the film's music.

February 8, 2001
An exclusive interview with actress Tonya Ivey is now accessable
through the About the Filmmaker's page.

http://www.paranoidthemovie.com/

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Regards

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi everyone,

Thanks to the people that let me know of the new Stephen King short
story that will appear in the 29 Jan issue of The New Yorker.

It is a fiction piece titled "All That You Love Will Be Carried
Away", and is about a salesman named Artie Zimmer.

Lija's library have a picture of the cover available at
http://w1.192.telia.com/~u19211139/nyorker.html

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Fangoria hope to release Issue #201, which will contain an article by
King, in about March 2001. There is no title listed for the article.
You can keep watch for more information at

http://www.fangoria2000.com/

---

Brian Freeman has written a spoiler-free review of Dreamcatcher at:

http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?
bfmid=2181&sourceid=986357&bfpid=0743211383&bfmtype=book

Because of the length of the link, you may need to cut and paste it
into your browser.

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Dont forget to let me know if you hear any King related news :-)

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Well now what we all are over Christmas, here are a couple of
Christmas Jokes for you all. Back to work on Horrorking.Com
tomorrow... :-)

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'Twas the week after Christmas, and all through the house
  Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

  The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste
  At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

  When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
  When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).

  I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
  The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,

  The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese
  And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

  As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
  And prepared once again to do battle with dirt---

  I said to myself, as I only can
  "You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"

  So--away with the last of the sour cream dip,
  Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip

  Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
  "Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

  I won't have a cookie--not even a lick.
  I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

  I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
  I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

  I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore---
  But isn't that what January is for?

  Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
  Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!


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'Twas the Night After Christmas"
            By Jeff Foxworthy

  'Twas the night after Christmas and all through the trailer,
  the beer had gone flat and the pizza was staler.
  The tube socks hung empty, no candies or toys,
  and I was camped out on my old Lay-Z-Boy.
  The kids they weren't talking to me or my wife,
  the worst Christmas they said they had had in their lives.
  My wife couldn't argue and neither could I,
  so I watched TV and my wife, she just cried.

  When out in the yard the dog started barkin',
  I stood up and looked and I saw Sheriff Larkin.
  He yelled, "Roy I am sworn to uphold the laws
  and I got a complaint here from a feller named Claus."
  I said, "Claus, I don't know nobody named Claus,
  and you ain't taking me in without probable cause."
  Then the Sheriff he said, "The man was shot at last night."
  I said, "That might have been me, just what's he look like?"
  The Sheriff replied, "He's a jolly old feller, with a big
  beer gut belly,
  that shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly.
  He sports a long beard, and a nose like a cherry."
  I said, "Sheriff that sounds like my wife's sister Sherri."
  "It's no time for jokes Roy" the Sheriff he said.
  "The man I'm describing is dressed all in red.
  I'm here for the truth now, it's time to come clean.
  Tell me what you've done, tell me what you've seen."
  Well I started to lie then I thought what the hell,
  it wouldn't have been the first time that I've spent
  New Years in jail.

  I said, "Sheriff it happened last night about ten,
  and I thought that my wife had been drinking again."
  When she walked in from work she was as white as a ghost.
  I thought maybe she had seen one of them UFO's.
  But she said that a bunch of deer had just flown over her head,
  and stopped on the roof of our good neighbour Red.
  Well I ran outside to look and the sight made me shudder,
  a freezer full of venison standing right on Red's gutter.
  Well my hands were a shakin' as I grabbed my gun,
  when outta Red's chimney this feller did run.
  And slung on his back was this bag over flowin'.
  I thought he'd stolen Red's stuff while old Red was
  out bowling'.
  So I yelled, "Drop fat boy, hands in the air!"
  But he went about his business like he hadn't a care.
  So I popped a warning shot over his head.
  Well he dropped that bag and he jumped in that sled.
  And as he flew off I heard him extort,
  "That's assault with intent Roy, I'll see ya in court."


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David
http://www.horrorking.com

Well it's Christmas again for another year, and Horrorking.Com would
like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.

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As a Bonus to regular visitors, Horrorking. Com and Douglas Clegg
would like to offer you a FREE .pdf version of this award winning
author's latest book - Purity. This is a limited offer, so get in
quick! You can download it from Horrorking.Com's font page ta:

http://www.horrorking.com

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For those of you that have downloaded The Plant from Stephen King's
Website, you can now get a new front cover for the book should you
choose to print it out at:

http://a1590.g.akamai.net/7/1590/1812/v001/www.stephenking.com/images/
PlantCover.jpg?

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David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the long delay in between newsletters, but I have been on
my annual holidays, and 8 weeks off work is hard to take at times.

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Stephen King's The Plant part 6 is now online for free!. You can get
it from http://www.stephenking.com In addition to the conclusion of
Book One, Installment VI also features an illustrated cover!

Zenith Rising, Book One of The Plant, is a compilation of all six
installments and, like Installment VI, features an illustrated cover
in its PDF and Microsoft Reader formats, and is available for
purchase for a low $7 as well.

there is an interesting article about The Plant which was written in
the New York Times, and King reply which they refused to print
located on King's website. (Thanks to Brian Freeman for the URL)

http://www.stephenking.com/sk_120400.html


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I little bit of older news about Bryan Smith's death:

BANGOR - The motorist who gained notoriety when he struck Stephen
King with his van died of an accidental overdose of a painkiller,
according to the state medical examiner's office.

Bryan Smith, 43, of Fryeburg, died from an overdose of fentanyl,
according to toxicology reports. He was found dead in his home on
Sept. 22, three days after he was last seen by family members.

Smith, who suffered from a back injury, had been prescribed the
opiate-based painkiller not long before his death.

The Bangor Daily News previously reported that seven prescriptions,
five separate medications and two doses of another drug were found in
Smith's trailer.

There were two separate prescriptions for fentanyl, a painkiller sold
under the trade name Duragesic, which is used for severe, long-term
pain, the newspaper said. It is administered through a patch over a
three-day period.

Fentanyl can cause the user's breathing to slow to the point of death
if too much is taken.

Smith's garnered unwanted attention following the June 1999 accident
in North Lovell. Smith was trying to control his Rottweiler in the
back seat, drove off Route 5 and struck King, nearly killing him.

Smith's family and friends said he suffered from incessant back pain
from a construction accident, along with bouts of depression. He was
also worried that he would end up in a wheelchair.

His brother, Everett Smith, questioned whether an interaction between
fentanyl and other medications could have caused Smith's death, but
the report ruled out that possibility.

Although the toxicology report ended the mystery over how Smith died,
it did not resolve the question of when he actually died. No official
date of death has been established.

Fans of King speculated on the Internet that Smith may have died on
the author's 53rd birthday, Sept. 21.

King added to the discussion when he said in a national television
interview that he believed that was true. He also noted other
coincidences, including that they shared the same middle name, Edwin.

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I have added ordering information for King's next novel: Dreamcatcher
from Amazon.Com and Amazon.co.uk. Also included is the UK cover of
the novel, as well as a review from Simonsays.com.

http://www.horrorking.com/dream.html

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Regards

David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to all the new members that have joined lately.

Well Stephen King has been happy with the support for The Plant so
far, and part 4 is now online at the address below. At almost 18,000
words, this is twice the length of previous versions, and also cocst
a bit more. This, and any future parts will cost $2, but King will
limit the book cost to $13 in total.

One interesting thing is that you can now download "Bundles" than
contain more than one version of the story - I chose one that
contains the Adobe acrobat, html and plain text versions of the
story, but there are other versions as well. To quote Stephen
King: "For those of you who haven't been paying, you know who you
are -- the blind newsboy is watching."

http://www.stephenking.com/download/

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Thanks to Mitch Alden for pointing out this story about his band.
Horrorking.Com is proud to be one of the many King sites that have
been helping NOW is NOW with advertising for their excellent
song "Other Worlds", based on a small part of The Dark Tower seried
by Stephen King.

STEPHEN KING To Meet Modern Rock On The Steps Of His Own Radio Station

Mitch Alden, founder and songwriter of the Modern Rock band "NOW is
NOW," takes with him the support of thousands of Stephen King fans as
he heads north to King's hometown of Bangor, ME to perform live on
the airwaves of King's personally owned radio station, WKIT, 100.3
FM.  This radio broadcast on November 9th will feature the cult
single "Other Worlds," a song inspired by Stephen King's bestselling
fantasy novel, The Gunslinger.

Like Stephen King, Mitch Alden has been using new and innovation
methods to get his work out to new listeners and his long time fans
alike.

"I've taken a different approach to getting my music to the masses,"
says Mitch Alden, whose unique songwriting style places the listener
inside the minds of their favorite book¹s characters. "Because
today¹s record companies are more like banks who spoon-feed their
opinions to the public, I elected to bypass them and use the more
direct approach to spread my music: the Internet."

During the three months 'Other Worlds' has been online, thousands of
Stephen King fans from around the world have downloaded the song for
free at "NOW is NOW's" MP3 site.  After listening to to the song,
many have followed through by purchasing the CD at "NOW is NOW's"
website, using Mitch's "faith in people" approach of allowing the
listener to hear the CD before paying.

"I've been spreading the message of my music at the many unofficial
Stephen King websites and have managed to develop quite a large buzz
with his fans; most of them are now assisting me in spreading my
music even further. Like Stephen King, I realize how corporate
conglomerates take away so much from the artist. My vision is to
utilize the Internet to keep the corporations out of the picture and
keep the relationship with the listener intimate."

Mitch and his music have received extensive positive reviews from
other artists, disc jockeys, and listeners from around the world.  He
has been nominated for a Boston Music Award, has contributed music to
several movie and TV soundtracks, and has appeared on radio stations
around the country.

Listeners interested a free taste of what "NOW is NOW" offers
musically can visit the band's MP3 website at http://www.mp3.com/NOW-
is-NOW. For more information on their "faith in people" approach to
selling their debut CD, fans can find details at http://www.NOW-is-
NOW.com.

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Thanks to Brian Freeman for the following story which was sourced
from Needful Things located at

http://www.castlerock.it/needfulthings

"Mick Garris was asked if the movie (Desperation) was being cut and
if it was being toned down from the novel due to the interest in
movie violence up on Capitol Hill. He said the reason that it is hard
to get the movie off the ground is that they do not want to cut
anything out of it and keep it brutal and hard hitting."  (original
source: Dark Horizon)

---

Star IQ has a couple of interesting articles about King that you may
be interested in reading. Thanks to Michelle McCaskey for pointing
these my way.

THE KING OF FRIGHT GOES AFTER BIG PUBLISHING'S JUGULAR
http://www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0001564.HTM

WHAT REALLY SCARES THE KING OF FRIGHT?
http://www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0000583.HTM

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David
http://www.horrorking.com

AOL Chat 10/10/2000

Host:   We welcome thousands of people to AOL Live, but Stephen...
it's especially nice to have you back and well and TYPING.  Ready to
tell us the secrets of writing?

SKing:  It's good to be doing those things. And yes, I'm ready to
tell you all my dirty little secrets.

Host:   Let's shock some people right off....   You say, in ON
WRITING, that the most valuable "class" you had was 10 minutes with
John Gould, a high school teacher.  How so?

SKing:  I wrote a sports piece. Basically, what he did was take out
all the flowery language. He cut it to the bone. Basic information,
in other words. And that's where you start.  Next.

Host:   You go a little further. For example, you HATE adverbs. Why?

SKing:  Adverbs always communicate one idea to me, and that's that the
writer isn't sure he's getting it across. And a lot of times, they're
redundant. If I say, "Jessie slammed the door loudly...well, duh. A
slammed door usually is loud. Again, writing is about communicating
what you see and hear and feel, doing it as simply as possible, and
ALWAYS TELLING THE TRUTH. Okay?

Host:   Okay! One more from me, and then our members will have at
you..... "That's so cool."  Why do you hate that?

SKing:  I like slang, but I don't like phrases that are shortcuts.
Don't tell me "That's so cool," tell me how you feel.  Tell me what
blisses you out.

Host:   Ok, here's one from Chiliwidle:  "It stands to reason you are
my favorite author, mainly because you breathe life into your
characters andyour stories are hypnotizing.  Who is your favorite
author and why?"

SKing:  I like a lot of different writers, and I've listed a bunch of
them at the end of ON WRITING. For sheer dependability, I think you
can't go wrong with Elmore Leonard or Ed McBain.  Another very
dependable writer is Nora Roberts.  She writes a lot, and the girl is
GOOD.  Next?

Host:   Stephen, EVERYONE is asking this, so let's take care of it up
front. Krishna asks:  "I just want to know how are you feeling now
after your accident?"

SKing:  I feel pretty well, for someone who was basically crushed on
a line down the right side of my body. I've still got a lot of pain
in my right hip, but I walk pretty well. Limp noticably at the end of
the day, though. As the late Walter Brennan used to say, "I've got a
hitch in my gitalong." I'm glad to be as well as I am. I got lucky.
Next?

Host:   Good to hear. Here's one  from Saralbe:  "Do you plan how
your books are going to end, before you start them?"

SKing:  I usually have an idea of where I'm going, but I like to
leave all the possibilities open. If the characters are doing their
job, they start to drive the story. Then it might end up anywhere.
The best thing is that if I don't know just what's going to happen,
then the readers usually don't, either. Next Q?

Host:   From Jim Ballingall:  "What advice do you have for "up and
coming" writers?"

SKing:  Write a lot and read a lot. Try not to get discouraged.  Next
Question?

Host:   from Bellassz:  "When you first started writing how did you
go about getting your work published?  Was it difficult?"

SKing:  I think that getting published is always difficult, and that
luck plays a part. You have to send the RIGHT story to the RIGHT
place...and at the RIGHT time. The best advice I can give is to keep
those stories working. Make a list of possible markets and keep
sending them around.  Don't start at PLAYBOY and the ATLANTIC
MONTHLY, either. Read the little magazines. DON'T send to magazines
you haven't read. It's like shooting in the dark. You're  apt to plug
your mother-in-law. Next Q?

Host:   From Higley:  "I just finished "On Writing." It was
excellent, but you never really discussed point of view.  It's one
area that often confuses me in writing fiction. How many POV's
can/should one use when writing?"

SKing:  You can use one point of view or many. I think it's best to
use either the first person ("I sat down") or the third person
restricted. ("He sat down.") There are lots of others, including
third person omneiscient, but do you really want to play God when
you're first starting out?  Next Q? Next?

Host:   Boy, I hope you all are taking notes out there because
there's going to be a quiz and I don't think Mr. King grades on a
curve.

SKing:  Jesse is kicking butt and taking down names.

Host:   From ARobin:  "In what way do you select/devise a story line
for a book?"

SKing:  I usually start with a situation, and just see where it
leads. It's like pulling a thread out of a mousehole.  Sometimes
there's a treasure at the end, sometimes just a ball of dust. The fun
is getting there. In MISERY, I started with a basic situation of a
man stuck in a bed, held prisoner by a psychotic fan. That was all I
had.  The story built itself, day by day. Then, during the rewriting
process, I just kinda whacked off the rough edges. Next Q?

Host:   Speaking of school, you deliberately use lots of -- uh ---
cuss words  so there is NO DANGER this will be used in high school
English classes. Why?

SKing:  Yes, there are a fair number of Anglo-Saxonisms in the book. I
wanted to make it tough, in a way, for teachers to use it. I think
the most valuable things writers learn about their craft are learned
OUTSIDE the classroom. Not that you can't learn. If I thought that,
writing a book like this would've been a waste of time. Next?

Host:   Lots of members want to know: Will there be more of "The
Plant?"

SKing:  Yes, there will be more "Plant." The pay-through rate is
standing just above 75 per cent, which was my cut-off line. The
response has been strong. I may not finish the whole thing on line,
but I think we're a go for at least October and November. And the
next parts are really long. The November episode will probably cost
two bucks. Next Q?

Host:   A little birdie tweeted "miniseries." You have one in the
works?

SKing:  It's called ROSE RED.  It's shooting right now.

Host:   "On Writing" also has large sections of autobiography....
Does this mean you'll never write one?

SKing:  I can't imagine writing a full-scale autobiography! Too much
of it would be, "Steve sat in a chair, bangin' on the keyboard."
Next ?

Host:   Two more and you pass the AOL Live writing course....

SKing:  Whew!

Host:   From Nazelhair:  "When is the next installment of the Dark
Tower series coming out?"

SKing:  I need to start working on the next volume, tentatively
called "The Crawling Shadow," in January or February. I'm a little
scared to go back in, because I don't want to screw up.  Next ?

Host:   And finally, you know as much about music as Eric
Clapton....  and you write with the music on.... what is in your CD
now?

SKing:  Right now I'm listening to Everclear. Tomorrow is Dwight
Yokam. And the day after that...who knows???

SKing:  THANK YOU ALL! GOOD NIGHT!!

Host:   We WON'T say 'That's so cool" --- even if it was.

Hi everyone,

As many of you may have already heard, 55 year old David Dukes
collapsed and died from an unknown cause last Monday during a day off
from filming "Rose Red".

Rose Red started filming in Seattle on August 22, 2000 and was
scheduled to wrap principal photography on December 20, 2000, but at
this time there is no word on how far back this may now be pushed.

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I have also been swamped with copies of the Transcript from AOL's
chat with Stephen King. This is the Second chat that King has had
online recently, and primarily deals with "On Writing". This is not
the same chat I advertised in the last email. Because I ended up
getting over 200 requests for the transcript last time, I will send
this one out to everyone in the next email.

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Part 3 of The Plant has been online for a couple of weeks now, and
King has reported that the payment level is slightly below the 75%
level he required to continue. This is not a good situation, but he
will post part 4 on 23 October 2000. Part 4 is the first section that
is actually new text, and will reportedly be about 20-25,000 words,
which is more than twice the 10,000 words in the last 3 parts. Price
will probably be $2, which is still excellent value.

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David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hi Everyone.

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Smith dead!

Bryan Smith, the driver responsible for the injuries to Stephen King
in last years car accident has been found dead in his mobile home
last Friday. There appeared to be no suspicious circumstances.

A partial copy of the news article can be found at
http://www.horrorking.com/car.html

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AOL Transcript.

If anyone missed the AOL chat with King, please let me know as I have
the interview transcript that I can send out to you all... Email me
at scream@... and put in the title "AOL transcript" to
make it easier for me.

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Interview.

The Observer in the UK had an excellent interview with King by Tim
Adams on September 14, 2000. It can be found at the address below.
One extremely interesting part of the article is that his brother
David has in fact found what happened to their father! I wont spoil
the suprise for you, but it is worth reading!!

http://www.observer.co.uk/stephenking/0,7663,358630,00.html

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Important dates!

October 3rd is the day that ON WRITING goes on sale. Dont miss out.
October 10th will also see an ON WRITING chat on AOL at 8 PM, EST.

Also The Plant, Part 3, will be available for download on the 25'th
of this month. Please pay the token $1 when you download it, as King
is still seriously looking at the 75% average. Here is what King said
about The Plant:

"One thing I almost forgot, and that is the issue of pricing.
Installments one, two and three are going to be available for $1.
Further installments up to 8 will be available for $2 each. In other
words, you complete financial liability for the first 8 installments
of this story will be $13 or about the cost of a trade paperback or a
hardcover novel offered at 40% discount in a chain bookstore. Any
parts beyond 8-which would be the balance of the story, would be
posted free."

Interesting...

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David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello everyone.

I understand that a some of you are interested in Stephen King
uncorrected proof's mainly because of their rare nature. Well the
following are for sale on Ebay. I have nothing to do with the sale at
all, I'm just informing you all.

"Three Stephen King unpublished, uncorected proofs, these full sized
paperback Proofs, are new, unread, rare true first editions. All 3
were published by Viking. Dolores Claiborne, 1992; Geralds Game, 1992
and Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993.Unpublished and uncorrected,
these proofs have limited production and distrubution. Your bid is
for all 3 books, you will be billed shipping. These rare Stephen King
proofs, are sought by all book collectors."

To have a look at the bidding, or make your own bids, please go to
Ebay at http://www.ebay.com and search for item 426020038

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Dreamcatcher, King's new novel now appears to have a release date!

According to SimonSays.Com, it will be released by Scribner in March
2001 as a hardcover for $28.00.

See the link below for more information.
http://www.simonsays.com/subs/category.cfm?areaid=21&ctgyid=0

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Rose Red Information.

Rose Red is going to be a 3 part, 6 hour miniseries for ABC, and is
expected to air during February 2002. The story is about Rose Red, a
haunted mansion biult by an Oil magnate in the early 1900's. Joyce
Reardon, a psycology professor, employs an autistic girl to wake the
ghosts of the people that have died there in the past.

The cast includes Nancy Travis as Joyce Reardon, Kimberly Brown as
the autistic girl, and other name such as Judith Ivey, Julian Sands,
Matt Keeslar, Kevin Tighe, Emily Deschanel, Yvonne Scio, Matt Ross,
and Tsidii LeLoca. King is returning as an executive producer along
with Mark Carliner, and the series is to be directed by Craig Baxley,
and produced by Thomas Brodek.

I can hardly wait.

(Information is from various Australian news sources)

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Some Horrorking.Com updates:

A few new largeprint books have been added to Horrorking.Com's links
to books.

I have updated the character list for IT. The character list went
from a few hundred to 739 people, making the file about 120K in size
now, so it will take a while to download.

Quite a few new DVD's have been added to the links: Pet Sematary, The
Stand, The Langoliers (a stand alone, and horror pack version), The
Dead Zone, Creepshow, Cujo (Horror Pack version), Thinner (Horror
Pack version).

I hope to offer Australian King fans a new source to order books via
Horrorking.Com. OzBooks have recently announced a partnership program
that I am looking into.

Because of the number of types of books (Hard cover, paperback, audio
CD/Tape etc), and the various sources, I am considering making a
seperate "online store" for each of the books & movies so I dont
clutter up each of the individual book and movie pages. This could
include a short description of each of the items.

What do you all think of this idea??? The more feedback I get, the
better, and it proves that you all read the message.(Grin)

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David
http://www.horrorking.com

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Hello everyone.

Just a quick note to let you know that Stephen King's The Plant,
episode 2, is online for you all to download. You can get it at
http://www.stephenking.com/download.html

Dont forget to send your $1 for this episode. You can pay via Credit
Card (From Amazon.Com's secure servers), or send a check directly to
King at the addresses shown. Dont forget that if he does not get the
75% he wants to pay, he WILL pull the plug and there will be no more
of The Plant available.

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Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone that emailed their best wishes for my
Grandmother - I had over 60 emails from people in this mailing list.
Unfortunately she passed away on Wednesday August the 9th, and is to
buried next Monday.

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http://www.mp3.com/NOW-is-NOW is the new website address for NOW is
NOW, a new band that I have mentioned before in a past email. For
those that do not know, they have an excellent song called Other
Worlds that was influenced by The Dark Tower. Also, NOW is NOW's
debut 5 song CD is mixed and about to be mastered and stamped. I'll
be sure to let you all know when they're available ;-)

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Back to Stephen King: Every day this month, SimonSays are giving away
a free Advance Reader's Copy of ON WRITING. The book doesn't go on
sale until October, but 31 lucky winners will get it now!  Winners
are drawn at random from people in the USA (Which rules me out
unluckily) - all you have to do is visit the site and sign up:

http://www.SimonSays.com/king

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Stephen King's Rose Red, an ABC miniseries scheduled for February
2002 will film in Tacoma and Seattle from August through December
2000.

Thanks to Lilja's Library, here is a link to the home page of the
Castle where Rose Red will be filmed:

http://www.thornewoodcastle.com/

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The Crawling Shadow is the tentative title for Volume V of The Dark
Tower series!! Health permitting, Steve expects to recommence work on
the Dark Tower series in January 2001.

(From http://www.stephenking.com )

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Stud City, the independent film adaptation of an early King short
story has Production set for August-November 2000, and an early 2001
release. please visit their Website at

http://www.VirtualAshland.com/studcity

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I had a request to place this in my newsletter from PollWeb.

We are looking for opinions about Stephen King's experimental
publishing ventures, RIDING THE BULLET and THE PLANT.  According to a
survey carried out by Carol Fitzgerald of the Book Report Network,
only 1% of those who downloaded Stephen King's RIDING THE BULLET
actually read the book. eBookNet.com is sounding the call to all King
fans: we need your help to find the truth.  We'd also like your
opinion about THE PLANT.  What do you think -- is this the wave of
the publishing future?

http://www.pollweb.com/Poll.asp?PollId=5186

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This email's hot site is NOW is NOW's song download page. NOW is NOW
is a collaborative effort, driven by songwriter Mitch Alden. Started
in the summer of 1999, the members of NOW is NOW crossed paths and
never looked back.The moment is what this band NOW lives.

http://www.mp3.com/NOW-is-NOW

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Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com