Stephen King

"Now the time has come. I put two bullets in my gun. One for me, and one for you. Oh darling, it will be so beautiful." The author Stephen King presented the world with a new nightmare in 1987. A story of horror, isolation and adornment…

The fog of depression is much more noticeable on the first play through of Infinite Fall's Night in the Woods. The economic depression afflicting the old mining town of Possum Springs. The depressed fugue state main character Mae spends…

There’s a joke I made about writing this article: “how do I make a film about people isolated together and one of them going mad topical today?” I thought about that joke while I was watching The Shining’s opening, with its amazing…

It’s Stephen King season. Autumn is breathing down your neck with winter close behind. October’s gnarled knuckles are about to knock on your door. Leaves of every rustic colour rustle down the roads. IT: Chapter Two is out in cinemas. King…

Dear Menstruators, You may have noticed a couple of weeks back a certain trend on Twitter going under the #PeriodEmoji hashtag. The hashtag announced the launch of the brand new and much anticipated Period Emoji for those times when we…

About thirty minutes into Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 adaptation of Stephen King’s doorstop novel Dreamcatcher, I remembered my deathly fear of leeches. Being from Ireland I have no real cause to fear leeches other than the fact that they’re…

The New England area is supposedly one of the most beautiful parts of the United States and I never want to go there. The setting of many of Stephen King’s most famous works as well as those of H. P. Lovecraft and even the home of Irish…

“I believe there is another man inside of everyman. A stranger. A conniving man” Call it coincidence or a prompted attempt on Netflix’s part to cash in on Stephen King’s popularity post-Dark Tower (haha no) and It, but two adaptations of…

The 1990 miniseries version of Stephen King's It might have aged into classic status but it was a patchy and uneven work. It was elevated by Tim Curry's amazing performance as Pennywise; the timeless clown demon who traumatised a generation…

Lisa Coen is one half of Tramp Press. We're big fans of Tramp Press here at Juvenalia so we were delighted when Lisa took a break from the world of high literature to talk to us about her love of Stephen King. As you might imagine, it took…