Blurb: The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle, the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Only the occasional big truck out on the…… Continue reading Pet Semetary by Stephen King – An Audiobook Review
Blurb: A horrifying crime. Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect. Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi. Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town? Author: Stephen King Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Release Date:…… Continue reading The Outsider by Stephen King – A Book Review
I’m almost finished reading ‘The Outsider’ by Stephen King and, as is always the case when I pick up one of his books I often think of all the ones I really want to get to but, for some reason or another, never manage to pick up. The following is a list of King titles…… Continue reading My Stephen King Wish List
This week on my ‘Things I read a really long time ago’ series I’m looking at Stephen King Books I read a long time ago. Strictly speaking, I’m classing ‘before I started blogging’ as a really long time ago. So BB (Before Blogging) … it’s like BC as far as dates go, except it’s less…… Continue reading Read But Not Forgotten – Stephen King: The Good, The Bad & The Meh
Blurb: Shortlisted for the Audio Publisher’s Association Audie Award 2016 for Best Male Narrator. 1978: Meet Morris Bellamy, the man who robs the safe of America’s most famous reclusive writer, John Rothstein. But it isn’t just the money he is interested in. Morrie is obsessed with the author’s notebooks and is prepared to kill the…… Continue reading Finders Keepers by Stephen King – An Audio Book Review
Blurb: You’ll lose a lot of sleep . . . Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start – the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That’s when Ralph begins to lose a…… Continue reading Insomnia by Stephen King – A Book Review
As is likely the case with most bloggers out there, there are so many books I loved long before I took an interest in reviewing them. So many that I can’t actually remember enough of the highs, lows etc … to do a comprehensive review. I’m tempted to do a post every so often where…… Continue reading Some of the Books I Loved Before Blogging
I kind of totally forgot to do a wrap-up posts for March & April and am just going to leave it that way. Onwards and upwards, eh? May actually wasn’t a bad month for me. I did finish a couple more things than I have put down in this post, I just haven’t gotten around…… Continue reading May Wrap-Up
I was pleasantly surprised by two things: My ability to keep this going as a bi-weekly thing three posts in a row without forgetting. This short story. The following info is from Skeleton Crew as a whole, not just the short story in question: Author: Stephen King Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Release Date:…… Continue reading {Short Read Sunday} Mrs Todd’s Shortcut By Stephen King
Blurb: ‘Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.’…… Continue reading Cell by Stephen King – A Book Review
Swords & Spectres 