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A Stephen King Podcast For Stephen King Obsessives

#246

248: The Life of Chuck with Anthony Breznican

The Life of Chuck is a recent King novella published in If It Bleeds, a standout story about finding joy in life, even if that means dancing your ass off in front of complete strangers. The odd feel good story about a world falling apart that has been adapted into a wonderful new film from Mike Flanagan. ... Read more

11 Sep 2024

1 HR 33 MINS

1:33:37

11 Sep 2024

#245

247: Revival with JT Mollner (ft. Guest Co-Host Wynter Mitchell)

Revival is the story of a nice guy preacher who suffers great personal tragedy, loses his faith, and seeks for answers about the afterlife that he, and us, the constant readers, aren't ready to face. Released in 2014, this book still has yet to be adapted, even though folks like Mike Flanagan have tried. ... Read more

04 Sep 2024

1 HR 30 MINS

1:30:08

04 Sep 2024

#244

246: 1408 with Mikael Hafstrom

1408 is about a skeptical writer who is in search of ghosts. He stays at all the most famous haunted places without ever stumbling across anything supernatural... until, that is, he stays in room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel in New York City. ... Read more

28 Aug 2024

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:01

28 Aug 2024

#243

245: Duma Key with Laura Lux (ft. Guest Co-Host Zach Dionne)

Edgar Freemantle travels to Duma Key, Florida for a little R&R after a horrible accident took his right arm and permanently damaged his marriage. He picks up a paintbrush and starts churning out amazing paintings that might have a sinister supernatural side to them. ... Read more

21 Aug 2024

1 HR 22 MINS

1:22:10

21 Aug 2024

#242

244: The Running Man with Steven E. de Souza

Based on the Richard Bachman book of the same name, 1987's The Running Man is a cheesy action spectacular with some of the all-timer Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners. The movie bears very little resemblance to the book, however it remains one of the more prescient movies of the '80s. ... Read more

14 Aug 2024

1 HR 23 MINS

1:23:48

14 Aug 2024

#241

243: Maximum Overdrive with Tilman Singer

Maximum Overdrive is King's one and only outing as director and is based on his short story "Trucks," a much bleaker and meaner tale of mankind's machines turning against their makers. ... Read more

07 Aug 2024

44 MINS

44:13

07 Aug 2024

#240

242: The Long Walk with Burnie Burns

The Long Walk is set in an Authoritarian future where the masses are entertained by a competition where 100 of America's youth start in one spot and have to keep walking until there is only one walker remaining. Those who fall during the walk don't just lose out on the grand prize, but are executed right there in broad daylight. 100 boys enter and only one will win. ... Read more

31 Jul 2024

1 HR 36 MINS

1:36:33

31 Jul 2024

#239

241: You Like It Darker with Stephen Graham Jones (ft. guest co-host Neil McRobert)

King's latest short story collection, You Like It Darker, is a showcase of the master hitting all his best notes, from crime fiction to straight horror. From angry alligators to creepy aliens that grant wishes to terrifying ghost toddlers and dream doorways that should absolutely, positively never be opened, this one's a banger. ... Read more

24 Jul 2024

2 HR 37 MINS

2:37:32

24 Jul 2024

#238

240: The Shining with Danny Lloyd (ft. guest co-host Mike Flanagan)

The Shining was released in 1980 to tepid critical response and weak financial success, but it has aged like a fine wine and is now considered a genre masterpiece. It's hard to deny that the movie's iconography is even stronger today than it was upon release, and that's thanks in no small part to young Danny Lloyd's central performance. ... Read more

17 Jul 2024

1 HR 19 MINS

1:19:16

17 Jul 2024

#237

239: The Shawshank Redemption with Bob Gunton (Special Guest Co-Host Alejandro Brugues)

Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont's adaptation has become one of the most beloved films ever made, thanks in no small part to the villainous performance of today's guest. ... Read more

10 Jul 2024

56 MINS

56:05

10 Jul 2024

#236

238: An Ode To Jordy Verrill with Brent Terhune

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill is all about a lunkhead rural farmer who discovers a meteor that crashed on his land. He thinks he has hit the jackpot, his luck finally turning around, but all that happens is a strange moss grows out of the meteor and all over this poor guy. Based on King's previously published short story "Weeds." ... Read more

03 Jul 2024

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:10

03 Jul 2024

#235

237: Night Shift with Jeff Nichols

Night Shift is King's first short story collection, published in 1978 and compiling a ton of his nudie magazine stories published before he hit fame and fortune. Night Surf is the standout for our guest and that one is more of a chill story about a group of friends hanging out on the beach as a super flu spreads across the world, taking humanity out person by person. ... Read more

26 Jun 2024

56 MINS

56:14

26 Jun 2024

#234

236: Pet Sematary with Unearthed & Untold's John Campopiano and Justin White

Pet Sematary follows a young doctor and his family who move into a small Maine town with a terribly busy road that likes to claim the lives of pets and small little boys chasing kites. Beyond the Pet Sematary is a deadfall that conceals a sour plot of land that might help you bring a loved one back, but at a cost. ... Read more

19 Jun 2024

1 HR 11 MINS

1:11:10

19 Jun 2024

#233

235: Holly and Creepshow with Found Footage Fest's Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett

Holly follows one of King's favorite characters, Holly Gibney, as she's faced with a monstrous duo who are snatching people for horrific reasons. It's up to Holly to honor their victims and stop them from hurting more as she slowly uncovers the truth behind these disappearances. And Creepshow is King and George A. Romero teaming up for a loving EC Comics tribute anthology film that contains pissed off undead father's wanting their damn cake, a man just itching to off his horrible wife, a dude that probably shouldn't have touched the meteor that fell into his backyard, and a jealous husband torturing his unfaithful wife and her lover. ... Read more

12 Jun 2024

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:27

12 Jun 2024

#232

234: Remembering Scott Wampler

Scott Wampler passed away Friday afternoon from natural causes. Aside from being the dedicated co-host of this show, he was a certifiable smart-ass on social media, a bully to bullies and those who abused power, and champion of all the people and art that touched him. This emotional conversation pulls back the curtain on Scott as a person and what's in store for the shows that he was so passionate about. ... Read more

05 Jun 2024

2 HR 35 MINS

2:35:20

05 Jun 2024

#231

233: It and Carrie with Nell Tiger Free and Arkasha Stevenson

Tim Curry scarred a whole generation as Pennywise The Dancing Clown in Stephen King's IT and Brian De Palma's Carrie inspired a whole generation of genre filmmakers. Both are classics of the respective forms and both have proven to be hugely important in keeping King in the cultural zeitgeist. ... Read more

29 May 2024

44 MINS

44:15

29 May 2024

#230

232: One For The Road with Scott Snyder

One For Road is Stephen King's short story sequel to 'Salem's Lot in which a family man runs out of gas in the middle of a snowstorm, leaves his family in the car while he goes to look for help, and then wanders into a bar where the locals pretty much tell him he broke down in the wrong place and there are vampires around. Scary, tense, and with a final couple of pages that will stick with you long after reading. ... Read more

22 May 2024

1 HR 26 MINS

1:26:49

22 May 2024

#229

231: The Shining with Renny Harlin

The Shining is one of the most hotly debated Stephen King adaptations. Did Kubrick screw up King's book? Is all that talk overblown? It always serves as a good backdrop to a conversation, especially when your guest is as fun to talk to as our guest this week. ... Read more

15 May 2024

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:08

15 May 2024

#228

230: Graveyard Shift with Mike P. Nelson

Stephen King's short story, Graveyard Shift, is about a Maine textile mill that has something of a rat problem. Like, a big rat problem. Literally. But are the rats the biggest problem facing these workers or the slave style conditions they have to work under? Both are bad news, but put them together and you have a creepy King corker that once again focuses on blue collar workers facing true evil. ... Read more

08 May 2024

1 HR 09 MINS

1:09:44

08 May 2024

#227

229: The Running Man with John Rosman

The Running Man is one of the darker stories to escape the mind of Stephen King. Originally published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, the story follows Ben Richards as he attempts to evade deadly stalkers in order to win a boatload of cash in order to save his sick family. The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie adaptation is pretty different, but both interpretations of the material ended up being strangely prescient. ... Read more

01 May 2024

1 HR 23 MINS

1:23:43

01 May 2024

#226

228: The Langoliers with Elan Gale

What would you do if you fell asleep on a flight and woke up to find a damn near empty airplane was still chugging along? That's the premise of Stephen King's novella The Langoliers and it remains one of his most fun, pulpy stories, despite a rather sketchy TV mini-series from the mid-'90s. ... Read more

24 Apr 2024

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:16

24 Apr 2024

#225

227: Design Your Own Stephen King Video Game with Alyssa Mercante

We sometimes break the Kingcast's usual format and this episode is one of those. Hey, we've been at this for four years, we gotta stretch our legs from time to time. Thankfully the Kingcast boys love video games almost as much as they love Stephen King and with that a beautiful idea was born. ... Read more

17 Apr 2024

1 HR 19 MINS

1:19:37

17 Apr 2024

#224

226: Children of the Corn: Genesis with K. Thor Jensen

A young couple find themselves trapped in the middle of nowhere with a creepy old dude, his mail order Ukrianian wife, and a disturbing child locked up in a shed. This is, unbelievably, the eighth entry into the Children of the Corn franchise and there are still more to go after this one. ... Read more

10 Apr 2024

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:16

10 Apr 2024

#223

225: The Shining with Keith Gordon

The Shining chronicles the slow descent into madness as one very troubled father succumbs to the ghosts (both literal and metaphorical) gnawing at his psyche while acting as the winter caretaker of the fancy Overlook hotel. The debate between the quality of Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of King's masterpiece has been raging for over 40 years and even spills into this very episode. ... Read more

03 Apr 2024

2 HR 04 MINS

2:04:46

03 Apr 2024

#222

224: Sleepwalkers with Stephen Graham Jones

Sleepwalkers is a 1992 feature film directed by Mick Garris based on an original screenplay by our show's namesake about a mommy cat person and a son cat person who love each other a little too much while on the hunt for a human virgin to sustain their supernatural cat people powers. ... Read more

27 Mar 2024

1 HR 38 MINS

1:38:50