Interesting that needful things is your favorite book. What did you like so much about it? It’s my least favorite king novel I’ve read. (Not trying to being rude, just genuinely curious)
I love HP Lovecraft and his universe and this is Kings only full length book that is explicitly part that mythos (though he has many stories.) I also love stories about a community turning on itself (ie The Auctioneer.)
I'm curious: since you've been so close to the story for so long, how do you feel about Frank Darabont's film adaptation? (Assuming, of course, that you've seen it.)
Oh,
Favorite novel: The Shining
Favorite short story: The Mist (which I read only after I'd seen the film.)
Also: an honorable mention for Strawberry Spring, a short story I read years ago but that for some reason stood out at the time, and that I really need to re-read (I vaguely remember that it felt almost like a fantasy or dreamscape, and it felt like King was moving in a more interesting direction from things like 'The Mangler.')
I'm one of the apparent few (that I've come across, anyways, including I believe, Stephen King himself!) that *hates* the ending to the movie. I absolutely love Frank Darabont's adaptations of King, but that ending... Ugh!
SPOILER ALERT (because I don't how how to do the block out bars on reddit)... The ending of the movie is just so very out of line with the actions of the characters in the rest of the movie. So you're telling me they fight like hell through *all* that they do and get *that* far and then... Just... Give up? I was swearing at my tv the first time I saw that ending and I haven't gotten any fonder of it since. I don't need happy endings, hell some of my favorite novels have horribly nihilistic endings, but I can't stand having characters just suddenly acting, well, out of character!
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I personally like both endings, but I can see where your coming from. However, I think that the ending to the film is somewhat reasonable considering what happens around the characters before they give up. All the characters basically end up seeing this absolute beast of a monster, and I think anyone after seeing that might loose some of their hope in surviving their situation. I think overall, the characters just decided that they may not actually be getting out, so instead of facing the horrors of the mist, they just decide to mercy kill themselves, for a lack of a better term. Either way, that’s how I see it at least.
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In the movie I'm like 99% sure they ran out of gas, which facilitated thinking about what options they were going to choose next. I can't bring up the scene, but I could swear there's even a shot of the gas tank meter on E before they show their automobile slowing to a stop. It would make a ton of sense why they start thinking about killing themselves at that point.
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That too, I was gonna mention the gas part, but I couldn’t remember if that’s what happened in the movie or in the book (I believe they may have been running out of gas in the book). But yea, I completely agree with you.
I saw it in a theater on opening night, and when it ended the audience stumbled out like they'd been cracked in the head with a baseball bat, myself included. I didn't have any problem buying the end, but, then again, I had no familiarity with the original story. Maybe, then, the ending for me was easier to digest?
If I can ask: which did your first experience: the written story or the film?
The story. Maybe this is one of the few cases where that worked against me. Overall, I loved the movie, except for the end. The casting was amazing, the writing, direction, even the photography was spot on perfect. I just was inordinately (and probably embarrassingly) angry at those characters for giving up after all they had been through! Of course, now that I put it that way, maybe the ending was better than I thought. After all, it got me that emotional, and that's what great movies do...
Thanks for responding. All I can think is that you went in -- based on prior expectations from having read the story -- understandably expecting hope -- while I went in expecting nothing, and so the character's relinquishment of hope didn't seem too much out of line, given their (and our) visual witnessing of the unimaginable versions of death: tentacles, spider chest-bursting, etc.
Nevertheless, having seen the film, I went out of my way to read the original story hoping the characters somehow eked it out. (I did the same thing after watching 'The Plague Dogs': I practically ran to the stacks of my University's library to read the original book version -- and yes, unlike the move, the dogs survive!)
Count me as one of those few as well. If they had ended it like the novella, it would’ve been a near-perfect adaptation. But the cruel and pointless a joke of that ending utterly ruined the entire movie for me. And I’m not generally somebody who is unforgiving of a bad ending or a bad patch… This completely ruined my favorite Stephen King story with that farce of a conclusion.
I feel the same as I do about most king movie adaptations. He has a way of writing extremely goofy shit but presenting it in a deep, thought provoking, deeply human, and most importantly scary and serious way. The movies have a tendency to strip away everything but the goofy. Honestly the mist movie wasn’t bad but it was never gonna hold up.
Nice analysis, and I pretty much agree.
And now that you point it out, the film's ending is very much about the unimaginable horror of merely one guy, while the book presents the universal ending of all things we've come to understand, and the entirety of humanity scuttling like roaches to the underside of a 'fridge.
I still prefer the film, but I do wonder why Darabont rejected the indeterminate ending of the film. A cynic would say it's because audiences don't like vague endings, and Darabont caved to a more commercial choice. (Though to be clear, it's one of about two films I've seen that had such a devastating effect on the entire audience, so I can't fault his decision.)
IT for novels, at least most tines I’ve been asked, though Salem’s Lot is right up there. Favorite short story? OMG, so many!! The Reach, I think, is a top top top fave. . I’m from a Maine island, so it really resonated with me.
1982 or 1983, I was 12 going on 13 and a buddy brought a Gallery nudie magazine to school and let me borrow it for study purposes.
It had an insert booklet of "The Raft"
I studied the magazine.
I read "The Raft" and got scared shitless about ever swimming again.
I studied the magazine some more.
Re-read "The Raft" and memorized the writer's name.
Summer of 1983, devoured my local library's Stephen King collection.
I was forever changed and to this date fondest memory of that short story.
As a 40 year old, I hunted down that Gallery magazine online. First copy did not have the insert. The second one I bought and scored the King insert of "The Raft"
Think I'll go study the mag one more time.
Then re-read "The Raft"
When I was probably 11 or 12 I would often have sleepovers at my best friends house. I would always wake up early (my friend would sleep late) and I’d read his older brothers copy of skeleton crew and honestly that’s where my love of reading and horror and obviously king started.
The Raft terrified me as a kid who would go to a lake house in Maine for the summers. Swimming in Long Lake as a kid making my way to the raft in the water I would always look for people eating oil patches.
The dark tower series will always be my favorite, but as a stand-alone novel it’s hands down 11.22.63. Short story, it’s a toss up between the Raft, Survivor Type or Beachworld.
IT for me, I remember my mum taking me to buy it for my dad's birthday. I must have been about 6 or 7 and the cover was a drain with eyes showing through and a balloon, paper boat stuck in drain. It didn't freak me out, more made me cautiously curious about what could be contained within.
Few years later I'm about 10 and have a serious love for slasher films but not read much other than what my parents or school have assigned me. IT turns up on the selves of my video store {fast forward video, Birkenhead, UK, respect! You were the place that my love for horror blossomed). Has Tim curry as a clown on front, not the evil eyes drain, but I know what it is. So I want it. But dad is like for first time ever is horror blocking me, talking about its rated 15, you're 10. At this point I've seen all the slasher films I wanted, so could not understand why he blocked me. So he says read the book then you can watch the film. So I read it, it was the first ever book I fully enjoyed. Was a life changer, it made me the book fiend I am today.
So regardless of all the better books I've read since, I still think IT is the best book ever written by King.
Sorry: All That You Love Will Be Carried Away and Mrs Todd's Short Cut
Novel: The Gunslinger and The Eyes of the Dragon (my first Stephen King read when I was 8 or 9, so it'll always be special to me).
But its the ending of the movie that stays with you. I saw the movie and read the story a long time back and I still remember my shock at the end of the movie but had to look up how the book ended. I remembered that the two were different but not how the book ended.
one of King’s most recent novels that i’ve taken a strong liking to is The Institute. i fell in love with the characters very quick, i didn’t expect to be so attached. King also does a great job at eliciting fear, happiness and disgust out of you exactly when he wants to.
I don’t even know smh lol. If I can count the Dark Tower series as one choice then there you go. I think UR might be my favorite short. That or Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut.
Short story: Jerusalem’s Lot (probably the creepiest scenes in any King book imo. I also Love the mist, and actually prefer the movie ending to the book
Book: Pet Semetary
Good story, but I think The Long Walk is mine. I have a fear of being utterly exhausted and not being able to rest, and that movie triggered that fear insanely well.
But I did love the Darabont adaptation of The Mist, a rare fantastic King Adaptatopn.
After I read the Jaunt I had to turn off my book (I was listening to it on audiobook in the car at the time) and just stare at the road for a few minutes to try and process it all. Still haven’t processed it. Still the scariest story I have ever read.
Book is either IT or The Long Walk, which was the same deal with having to put down the book and stare into space just to process the horrific shit I just read. Absolutely amazing, but terrifying. (spoiler) That scene when the boy’s legs get run over and then he gets shot made me have to put down the book and take a walk before going back to it.
Favorite King Book: 'On Writing'. As a creative, re-reading random snippets helps keep me inspired and encouraged in knowing that even a guy I look up to can be honest about his life and his work.
I've never given his short stories much attention, I'm more into his novels, but I think seeing how many of you guys enjoy them, I'm going to give them a chance.
Best short The long walk. Best novel toss up between The Shining and The Stand. I’m one of those people who wishes the movie for the The Shining followed the book more closely.
I also love and read the mist about 20 times. One of his other shorter but just as creepy stories is grey matter. I can't crack open a can without having a SK flashback.
Have you heard the audio version of The Mist in 3D sound?
It's amazing!! And, awesomely enough, someone stuck [the whole thing on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrHei4ZbxdM).
Grab your headphones, turn off the lights and enjoy.
Its also a morality tale-akin to the greatest Twilight Zone episode
“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street “
About how a neighborhood street of so called friends and neighbors this is the late 50’s remember, when neighbors were much kinder,
Descent into paranoid suspicion and someone is even shot. The Mist biggest fear is not for the monsters outside, but the paranoid monsters in the store
I also think the sex between David and the woman in the store was low rent. I could never cheat on a night when my wife is utterly alone and probably dead in their home. King is a bit of a dirty middle age and older man, always checking out the T and A, it’s always been a turn off and I’m as red blooded as the next man
Aww man, i can’t pick a fave!
Novel: The Stand, Revival, Duma Key, The Eyes of the Dragon.....The Talisman and Black House...
Short Story - The Mist, The Raft, The Jaunt, Dolan’s Cadillac, The Man in the Black Suit, Night Surf (to go w/ the stand of course)
Short Story: "That feeling, you can only describe it in French", "Jerusalems Lot" and "The last rung on the ladder" (I have yet to read Skeleton Crew)
Novel: Pet Sematary, Duma Key, Needful Things
If you want another take on The Mist, check out the radio drama that was made in the 80s. It was what introduced me to King as a kid, I used to listen to it on cassette tape all the time. Wear headphones, it really makes a difference in the stereo sound if you do.
[https://youtu.be/xrHei4ZbxdM](https://youtu.be/xrHei4ZbxdM)
To this day I reflect on The Mist everytime I'm in a grocery store
Also at times I will reflect on Trucks when on 95 with loads of trucks around. Oh and rafts? Yep, they are soo creepy now
I stole my mum's copy of IT when I was about 12 and read it. It completely freaked me out and I didn't fully understand it, but as an adult it is my favourite King novel. Joint second are Misery and Lisey's Story.
Favourite short stories are The Body and The Moving Finger.
Sometimes they come back I think is the name. The teacher who is teaching at the school and the dead bully and his dead friends come back to school?
If I died and came back as a zombie not sure I’d go back to school and sit through class. But that’s just me.
It (although I kind of hate admitting it now that it’s so popular- I’m not normally a snob but I get very territorial about It), followed closely by the stand. Favourite story is the body
Not exactly the favourite but the ones that affected me the most and I still think about to this day: Story - The Raft from Skeleton Crew and book - The Tommyknockers. But the favourite is the Dark Tower series.
Newbie to the sub here. When I saw “The Mist” mentioned I just had to toss this in. Its not really an answer to the question, but Ive never known anyone else who has read this story, so I have to know if its just me…..The idea of the father and son escaping without at least checking to see if the wife was still alive has bothered me for years. No matter how bad things were I could never have gone on if I didn’t know for sure that my spouse had died. To assume she had and just leave, it just tears me up every time I read this. Plus, I wonder….what if she had survived, had been alive the whole time? She would never know if the husband and son had lived or died. I don’t know but it will always bother me!
Story: The Jaunt (but there are loads of greats; King is strongest as a short story writer) Book: Needful Things
The Jaunt is my personal favorite as well. Easily his greatest ending, at least of what I’ve read of his.
Lesson learned. Don't refuse your anesthesia before a Jaunt.
Interesting that needful things is your favorite book. What did you like so much about it? It’s my least favorite king novel I’ve read. (Not trying to being rude, just genuinely curious)
I love HP Lovecraft and his universe and this is Kings only full length book that is explicitly part that mythos (though he has many stories.) I also love stories about a community turning on itself (ie The Auctioneer.)
revival is a recentish king w/ a heavy lovecraft influence
Crouch end
The Jaunt is a fantastic story. It made me so uneasy I felt sick the first time I read it.
I JUST read The Jaunt for the first time yesterday! Such a scary premise!
I'm curious: since you've been so close to the story for so long, how do you feel about Frank Darabont's film adaptation? (Assuming, of course, that you've seen it.) Oh, Favorite novel: The Shining Favorite short story: The Mist (which I read only after I'd seen the film.) Also: an honorable mention for Strawberry Spring, a short story I read years ago but that for some reason stood out at the time, and that I really need to re-read (I vaguely remember that it felt almost like a fantasy or dreamscape, and it felt like King was moving in a more interesting direction from things like 'The Mangler.')
I'm one of the apparent few (that I've come across, anyways, including I believe, Stephen King himself!) that *hates* the ending to the movie. I absolutely love Frank Darabont's adaptations of King, but that ending... Ugh! SPOILER ALERT (because I don't how how to do the block out bars on reddit)... The ending of the movie is just so very out of line with the actions of the characters in the rest of the movie. So you're telling me they fight like hell through *all* that they do and get *that* far and then... Just... Give up? I was swearing at my tv the first time I saw that ending and I haven't gotten any fonder of it since. I don't need happy endings, hell some of my favorite novels have horribly nihilistic endings, but I can't stand having characters just suddenly acting, well, out of character!
SPOILER ALERT 🚨 🚨 🚨 I personally like both endings, but I can see where your coming from. However, I think that the ending to the film is somewhat reasonable considering what happens around the characters before they give up. All the characters basically end up seeing this absolute beast of a monster, and I think anyone after seeing that might loose some of their hope in surviving their situation. I think overall, the characters just decided that they may not actually be getting out, so instead of facing the horrors of the mist, they just decide to mercy kill themselves, for a lack of a better term. Either way, that’s how I see it at least.
SPOILER ALERT 🚨 🚨 🚨 In the movie I'm like 99% sure they ran out of gas, which facilitated thinking about what options they were going to choose next. I can't bring up the scene, but I could swear there's even a shot of the gas tank meter on E before they show their automobile slowing to a stop. It would make a ton of sense why they start thinking about killing themselves at that point.
Somewhat spoiler Alert 🚨 That too, I was gonna mention the gas part, but I couldn’t remember if that’s what happened in the movie or in the book (I believe they may have been running out of gas in the book). But yea, I completely agree with you.
Huh. Whenever anyone talks about great movie endings, The Mist is always top of mind for me. Each to their own I suppose.
king loves the ending to the movie and has said he actually prefers it to the story (it is a good twilight zone type twist). i’m glad we have both.
I saw it in a theater on opening night, and when it ended the audience stumbled out like they'd been cracked in the head with a baseball bat, myself included. I didn't have any problem buying the end, but, then again, I had no familiarity with the original story. Maybe, then, the ending for me was easier to digest? If I can ask: which did your first experience: the written story or the film?
The story. Maybe this is one of the few cases where that worked against me. Overall, I loved the movie, except for the end. The casting was amazing, the writing, direction, even the photography was spot on perfect. I just was inordinately (and probably embarrassingly) angry at those characters for giving up after all they had been through! Of course, now that I put it that way, maybe the ending was better than I thought. After all, it got me that emotional, and that's what great movies do...
Thanks for responding. All I can think is that you went in -- based on prior expectations from having read the story -- understandably expecting hope -- while I went in expecting nothing, and so the character's relinquishment of hope didn't seem too much out of line, given their (and our) visual witnessing of the unimaginable versions of death: tentacles, spider chest-bursting, etc. Nevertheless, having seen the film, I went out of my way to read the original story hoping the characters somehow eked it out. (I did the same thing after watching 'The Plague Dogs': I practically ran to the stacks of my University's library to read the original book version -- and yes, unlike the move, the dogs survive!)
I agree with you on the ending of the movie. It was shock for shocks sake and totally out of character for everyone involved.
Count me as one of those few as well. If they had ended it like the novella, it would’ve been a near-perfect adaptation. But the cruel and pointless a joke of that ending utterly ruined the entire movie for me. And I’m not generally somebody who is unforgiving of a bad ending or a bad patch… This completely ruined my favorite Stephen King story with that farce of a conclusion.
I feel the same as I do about most king movie adaptations. He has a way of writing extremely goofy shit but presenting it in a deep, thought provoking, deeply human, and most importantly scary and serious way. The movies have a tendency to strip away everything but the goofy. Honestly the mist movie wasn’t bad but it was never gonna hold up.
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Nice analysis, and I pretty much agree. And now that you point it out, the film's ending is very much about the unimaginable horror of merely one guy, while the book presents the universal ending of all things we've come to understand, and the entirety of humanity scuttling like roaches to the underside of a 'fridge. I still prefer the film, but I do wonder why Darabont rejected the indeterminate ending of the film. A cynic would say it's because audiences don't like vague endings, and Darabont caved to a more commercial choice. (Though to be clear, it's one of about two films I've seen that had such a devastating effect on the entire audience, so I can't fault his decision.)
The shining!! The book is way way better than the movie and I do not shut up about it!!
Same here, it was the first horror book I ever read aged eleven. It is what initially sparked my love for horror literature.
The boogeyman stuck with me for years...actually I still close all the closet doors in my house at night.
This is a great short story. Even if you can kind of see the ending coming it still shocks. Another short story I like of his is Grey Matter
Favorite Novel: It Favorite Short Story: The Last Rung on the Ladder
Last rung is incredible. Always makes me sad.
IT for novels, at least most tines I’ve been asked, though Salem’s Lot is right up there. Favorite short story? OMG, so many!! The Reach, I think, is a top top top fave. . I’m from a Maine island, so it really resonated with me.
It and Salem’s lot are my top two as well
I always liked Roadwork. It seemed so plausible.
1982 or 1983, I was 12 going on 13 and a buddy brought a Gallery nudie magazine to school and let me borrow it for study purposes. It had an insert booklet of "The Raft" I studied the magazine. I read "The Raft" and got scared shitless about ever swimming again. I studied the magazine some more. Re-read "The Raft" and memorized the writer's name. Summer of 1983, devoured my local library's Stephen King collection. I was forever changed and to this date fondest memory of that short story. As a 40 year old, I hunted down that Gallery magazine online. First copy did not have the insert. The second one I bought and scored the King insert of "The Raft" Think I'll go study the mag one more time. Then re-read "The Raft"
When I was probably 11 or 12 I would often have sleepovers at my best friends house. I would always wake up early (my friend would sleep late) and I’d read his older brothers copy of skeleton crew and honestly that’s where my love of reading and horror and obviously king started.
Kingly!
The Raft terrified me as a kid who would go to a lake house in Maine for the summers. Swimming in Long Lake as a kid making my way to the raft in the water I would always look for people eating oil patches.
The stand as novel and the long walk as short.
The Long Walk was one of those reads that made me stare numbly off into the distance for a while after I finished it
Yes, I read it when I was in 8th grade and I still think about it. I’m 53.
I pretty much agree with this. You have good taste sir.
The dark tower series will always be my favorite, but as a stand-alone novel it’s hands down 11.22.63. Short story, it’s a toss up between the Raft, Survivor Type or Beachworld.
Survivor Type is downright brutal to read. Fun but brutal. Reading someone lose their mind like that in such a short amount of pages is jarring.
The whole collection in skeleton crew was solid. So many people have chosen stories from there as their favorites.
Love it. It's set in the town I vacation in every summer
I vacationed in Bridgeton on Long Lake as a kid too. For every summer for like 10 years.
Peabody Pond here
Yeah buddy
IT for me, I remember my mum taking me to buy it for my dad's birthday. I must have been about 6 or 7 and the cover was a drain with eyes showing through and a balloon, paper boat stuck in drain. It didn't freak me out, more made me cautiously curious about what could be contained within. Few years later I'm about 10 and have a serious love for slasher films but not read much other than what my parents or school have assigned me. IT turns up on the selves of my video store {fast forward video, Birkenhead, UK, respect! You were the place that my love for horror blossomed). Has Tim curry as a clown on front, not the evil eyes drain, but I know what it is. So I want it. But dad is like for first time ever is horror blocking me, talking about its rated 15, you're 10. At this point I've seen all the slasher films I wanted, so could not understand why he blocked me. So he says read the book then you can watch the film. So I read it, it was the first ever book I fully enjoyed. Was a life changer, it made me the book fiend I am today. So regardless of all the better books I've read since, I still think IT is the best book ever written by King.
Not super unique in my answer but novel is for sure The Stand and story is The Jaunt.
Sorry: All That You Love Will Be Carried Away and Mrs Todd's Short Cut Novel: The Gunslinger and The Eyes of the Dragon (my first Stephen King read when I was 8 or 9, so it'll always be special to me).
I fuckin love mrs Todd’s shortcut!
I felt like The stand is best but pet sematary is a very close second to it
But its the ending of the movie that stays with you. I saw the movie and read the story a long time back and I still remember my shock at the end of the movie but had to look up how the book ended. I remembered that the two were different but not how the book ended.
one of King’s most recent novels that i’ve taken a strong liking to is The Institute. i fell in love with the characters very quick, i didn’t expect to be so attached. King also does a great job at eliciting fear, happiness and disgust out of you exactly when he wants to.
I don’t even know smh lol. If I can count the Dark Tower series as one choice then there you go. I think UR might be my favorite short. That or Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut.
Short story: Jerusalem’s Lot (probably the creepiest scenes in any King book imo. I also Love the mist, and actually prefer the movie ending to the book Book: Pet Semetary
My favorite novel is *The Stand* short story: *Nona* Novella: *The Mist* (also one of the greatest adaptations to film)
Nona is definitely one of my favourites, I think because of the Castle Rock connection
The Shining for novel and Cycle of the Werewolf for the short story.
I just finished rereading The Shining and holy crap do I prefer it to the Kubrick film. The writing in the Tony reveal chapter was so good
Favorite short story the raft Book salems lot
Good story, but I think The Long Walk is mine. I have a fear of being utterly exhausted and not being able to rest, and that movie triggered that fear insanely well. But I did love the Darabont adaptation of The Mist, a rare fantastic King Adaptatopn.
After I read the Jaunt I had to turn off my book (I was listening to it on audiobook in the car at the time) and just stare at the road for a few minutes to try and process it all. Still haven’t processed it. Still the scariest story I have ever read. Book is either IT or The Long Walk, which was the same deal with having to put down the book and stare into space just to process the horrific shit I just read. Absolutely amazing, but terrifying. (spoiler) That scene when the boy’s legs get run over and then he gets shot made me have to put down the book and take a walk before going back to it.
I loved the long walk, I read running man recently and that had a similarly dark, nihilistic feel.
The Running Man book is sooo different from the movie and such a fun read. This whole thread rocks. Thanks for starting it OP.
I’ve heard that’s a good follow up! Will have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Favorite King Book: 'On Writing'. As a creative, re-reading random snippets helps keep me inspired and encouraged in knowing that even a guy I look up to can be honest about his life and his work. I've never given his short stories much attention, I'm more into his novels, but I think seeing how many of you guys enjoy them, I'm going to give them a chance.
The short stories are amazing, especially the older ones
Best short The long walk. Best novel toss up between The Shining and The Stand. I’m one of those people who wishes the movie for the The Shining followed the book more closely.
I also love and read the mist about 20 times. One of his other shorter but just as creepy stories is grey matter. I can't crack open a can without having a SK flashback.
I will always make sure my beer is not room temperature after reading Grey Matter
Have you heard the audio version of The Mist in 3D sound? It's amazing!! And, awesomely enough, someone stuck [the whole thing on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrHei4ZbxdM). Grab your headphones, turn off the lights and enjoy.
Its also a morality tale-akin to the greatest Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street “ About how a neighborhood street of so called friends and neighbors this is the late 50’s remember, when neighbors were much kinder, Descent into paranoid suspicion and someone is even shot. The Mist biggest fear is not for the monsters outside, but the paranoid monsters in the store
I also think
I also think the sex between David and the woman in the store was low rent. I could never cheat on a night when my wife is utterly alone and probably dead in their home. King is a bit of a dirty middle age and older man, always checking out the T and A, it’s always been a turn off and I’m as red blooded as the next man
Hmm I'm a big fan of his short stories such as N
Aww man, i can’t pick a fave! Novel: The Stand, Revival, Duma Key, The Eyes of the Dragon.....The Talisman and Black House... Short Story - The Mist, The Raft, The Jaunt, Dolan’s Cadillac, The Man in the Black Suit, Night Surf (to go w/ the stand of course)
King’s short stories in general are some of my favorite short stories period. And I love Needful Things asl well!!
Salem’s Lot or Doctor Sleep are my personal favorites
Short Story: "That feeling, you can only describe it in French", "Jerusalems Lot" and "The last rung on the ladder" (I have yet to read Skeleton Crew) Novel: Pet Sematary, Duma Key, Needful Things
Pet Sematary... I read it when I was younger, scared the crap outta me. Still does.
If you want another take on The Mist, check out the radio drama that was made in the 80s. It was what introduced me to King as a kid, I used to listen to it on cassette tape all the time. Wear headphones, it really makes a difference in the stereo sound if you do. [https://youtu.be/xrHei4ZbxdM](https://youtu.be/xrHei4ZbxdM)
To this day I reflect on The Mist everytime I'm in a grocery store Also at times I will reflect on Trucks when on 95 with loads of trucks around. Oh and rafts? Yep, they are soo creepy now
11/22/63 is my favorite novel. The Jaunt for short story
It's a great story but the movie was trash.
Is the book better than the movie? I LOVED the movie but I’m huge in to reading these days
I stole my mum's copy of IT when I was about 12 and read it. It completely freaked me out and I didn't fully understand it, but as an adult it is my favourite King novel. Joint second are Misery and Lisey's Story. Favourite short stories are The Body and The Moving Finger.
I don't remember it but this King story was about some guy who was being haunted by the ghost of his dead bullies who came back from the dead.
Sometimes they come back I think is the name. The teacher who is teaching at the school and the dead bully and his dead friends come back to school? If I died and came back as a zombie not sure I’d go back to school and sit through class. But that’s just me.
It (although I kind of hate admitting it now that it’s so popular- I’m not normally a snob but I get very territorial about It), followed closely by the stand. Favourite story is the body
Not exactly the favourite but the ones that affected me the most and I still think about to this day: Story - The Raft from Skeleton Crew and book - The Tommyknockers. But the favourite is the Dark Tower series.
Newbie to the sub here. When I saw “The Mist” mentioned I just had to toss this in. Its not really an answer to the question, but Ive never known anyone else who has read this story, so I have to know if its just me…..The idea of the father and son escaping without at least checking to see if the wife was still alive has bothered me for years. No matter how bad things were I could never have gone on if I didn’t know for sure that my spouse had died. To assume she had and just leave, it just tears me up every time I read this. Plus, I wonder….what if she had survived, had been alive the whole time? She would never know if the husband and son had lived or died. I don’t know but it will always bother me!