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Oh GOD YES! I hope this is true, and that it all pans out. Stephen King writing for Marvel in his spare time.. what book would you like to see the master of horror handling? Man oh man... the possibilities!

Hmmm.. Man-Thing... I'd rather see King writing Ghost Rider or a Midinght Son's comeback, or the Darkhold Redeemers return or something like that. Well I'm happy about Ghost Rider returning with a mini in September via Garth Ennis.

King for Marvel would be sweet though.

Originally posted by Sentry
Hmmm.. Man-Thing... I'd rather see King writing Ghost Rider or a Midinght Son's comeback, or the Darkhold Redeemers return or something like that. Well I'm happy about Ghost Rider returning with a mini in September via Garth Ennis.
Yeah, Ghost Rider was the first that came to mind, followed by Dr. Strange. I don't care what he writes, I'm buying it. This should be a big boost in publicity for Marvel if it goes through. I wonder how long it is before DC scrambles to bring in a big name author for one of their books?

Heck, I've never been a huge King fan, so while it would be huge for Marvel I think comics in general already have some "big names". I would trust a new Alan Moore story over King, and guys like Neil Gaiman (DC's Sandman series) and others are top-notch writers who have written successfully outside the comic medium. So yeah, great for publicity, but sometimes genre-crossing or medium-crossing is bad.

Ah hell, I'd still buy it though...just for curiosity's sake.

-DM

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Heck, I've never been a huge King fan, so while it would be huge for Marvel I think comics in general already have some "big names". I would trust a new Alan Moore story over King, and guys like Neil Gaiman (DC's Sandman series) and others are top-notch writers who have written successfully outside the comic medium. So yeah, great for publicity, but sometimes genre-crossing or medium-crossing is bad.

Ah hell, I'd still buy it though...just for curiosity's sake.

-DM
Exactly. It might not be that great, but it WILL make people curious, and that's almost as good.

i would love 2 c him write a carnage story all the lurking in the dark etc it would be cool imo

Honestly, I've never understood the big deal with King.
I read the Darktower books, they were good....nothing great.

All of his horror books just seem to be there only to have a crazy ending ala 6th sense.

But, it'd be nice to see him write for Ghost Rider or ManThing or possibly write about the darker side of being sorcerer supreme.

Either way, it's cool. He's an average writer imo.

In the long run, I doubt he'll be remembered as any great name in literature, nor do I think that he adds anything valuable to today's market, his novels are overly long (not that I mind length, but his is superfluous, providing nothing to the story often), and very formulaic.

Nevertheless he is a big name at the moment, he draws a crowd, and hopefully he could invigorate a book or two for Marvel.

That said, I hope he gets, what is for him, an odd assignment. He writes enough faux dark, brooding shit. Give him a happy, peppy character like Speedball to tackle. It would be new territory for him, and I think the challenge would cause him to grow as a writer. We know how he handles dark, sci-fi, mystic crap, so why do we want more of it? I'd rather not see him fall further into formula and tedium.

His written comics before


"All things serve the beam"

Stay Whirly

He is the single most successful writer of the television age His breadth of writing encompasses a myriad of styles. At his best he has a way of touching the sensibilities of people the world over by initially dealing with very well drawn people in quite novel which we actually care about in novel situations in his early writing this was often in quite a traditionally Gothic style. As he has progressed he has done some very unusual things. The serialisation in the style of the C19 of "Green Mile", placing himself actually in the "Dark Tower" series (a serious no no for writers). As to his legacy well The "Stand" was the first true "Dark Fantasy", The "Dark Tower" whilst slightly failing in its full potential was still a modern cross genre classic. Snobs will decry him and he has written some shit, but that can all be forgiven for something like Rita Hayworth and the "Shawshank Redemption" His books are now on school and college courses the world over. To finish:

"All things serve the beam"

Stay Whirly

Originally posted by ScarletSpider
In the long run, I doubt he'll be remembered as any great name in literature, nor do I think that he adds anything valuable to today's market, his novels are overly long (not that I mind length, but his is superfluous, providing nothing to the story often), and very formulaic.

Nevertheless he is a big name at the moment, he draws a crowd, and hopefully he could invigorate a book or two for Marvel.

That said, I hope he gets, what is for him, an odd assignment. He writes enough faux dark, brooding shit. Give him a happy, peppy character like Speedball to tackle. It would be new territory for him, and I think the challenge would cause him to grow as a writer. We know how he handles dark, sci-fi, mystic crap, so why do we want more of it? I'd rather not see him fall further into formula and tedium.

The aforementioned (Strange, Man-thing, Ghostrider.) And how about Hellstorm? I wonder what his take would be on Venom and Carnage? (*drools* It would be awesome if he picked up Way's Venom series... though highly unlikely.)

Er, also could have a new mutant in one of the X-books pull a Carrie....

Marvel could use more writing talent.
Give Millar and Bendis a break....they're practically writing everything.

I'd like to see Stephen King do Dr. Strange!!!!!
The possibilities are endless with a character like that.
I miss reading the old Dr. Strange comics.
He deserves a great monthly title of his own.

Marvel's already becoming a horror show with they're inconsistancy....
why not add Stephen King to the horror......

Keep the faith

Sttay Whirly

Yeah, give Bendis a break...or a snap...of the neck.



Just being the devil's advocate here, but the over 250 million copies of Harry Potter novels sold might derail that argument.

Or, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a book second only to the Bible in sales.

Next Venom_girl, I was thinking it might be interesting to see what he would do with Hellstorm as well. It's a shame Marvel doesn't use him more.

Daimon Hellstrom was bad a$$. King should definitely write something about him.

I heard he's trying to turn his darktower books into comics, so that may be what he does. Meh, he's really nothing special.

DorkTower the comic spoof of the book was better than the original book.

DorkTower is forgotten gold, people should look it up.

Originally posted by ScarletSpider
Yeah, give Bendis a break...or a snap...of the neck.



Just being the devil's advocate here, but the over 250 million copies of Harry Potter novels sold might derail that argument.


Or, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a book second only to the Bible in sales.

He is trust me on this How many Harry Potter books are we up to 7 is it and Mao does not count for obvious reasons Talking fiction the king rules The Shining, Deadzone, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile etc etc etc were big films. Then we have the mini series

Series, Novels and Short Stories
Not including writing as Richard Bachman


The "King"

The Dark Tower

1. The Gunslinger (1982)
2. The Drawing of the Three (1985)
3. The Waste Lands (1991)
4. Wizard and Glass (1997)
The Dark Tower Box Set (omnibus) (2003)
5. Wolves of the Calla (2003)
6. Song of Susannah (2004)
7. The Dark Tower (2004)




Talisman (with Peter Straub)

1. The Talisman (1984)
2. Black House (2001)
The Talisman And Black House (omnibus) (2003)


The Green Mile

1. The Two Dead Girls (1996)
2. The Mouse on the Mile (1996)
3. Coffey's Hands (1996)
4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (1996)
5. Night Journey (1996)
6. Coffey on the Mile (1996)







Novels Top

Carrie (1974)
Salem's Lot (1975)
The Shining (1977)
The Stand (1978)
The Dead Zone (1979)
Firestarter (1980)
Cujo (1981)
The Mist (1981)
Pet Sematary (1982)
Christine (1983)
Cycle of the Werewolf (1984)
It (1986)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1986)
Misery (1987)
The Tommyknockers (1987)
The Dark Half (1989)
The Stand, the Complete And Uncut Edition (1990)
Needful Things (1991)
Gerald's Game (1992)
Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Insomnia (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script (1994) (with Frank Darabont)
Rose Madder (1995)
Desperation (1996)
The Green Mile (1996)
Bag of Bones (1998)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
Storm of the Century (1999)
Dreamcatcher (2001)
From a Buick 8 (2002)
The Colorado Kid (2005)










Chapbooks Top

The Breathing Method (1984)
Silver Bullet (1985)
My Pretty Pony (1989)
The Langoliers (1990)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (1991)
The Library Policeman (1991)
Lawnmower Man (1992)
Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog (1993)
Two Past Midnight: Secret Window (1994)
The Body (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1995)
Umney's Last Case (1996)
Apt Pupil (1998)
Quitter's Inc. (1999)
LT's Theory of Pets (2001)
Riding the Bullet (2001)
Secret Window (2004)








Collections Top

Night Shift (1978)
Different Seasons (1982)
Selected Works: The Shining / Salems Lot / Carrie (omnibus) (1983)
Skeleton Crew (1985)
Four Past Midnight (1990)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)
Gray Matter: And Other Stories (1993)
Carrie / the Tommyknockers (omnibus) (1994)
Stephen King Omnibus (omnibus) (1997)
Six Stories (1997)
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
Blood and Smoke (audio) (1999)
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction On The Craft Of Writing (2000)
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002)
The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales (2002)








Series contributed to Top
Transgressions (with Lawrence Block, John Farris)

Terror's Echo (2005)












Non fiction Top

Danse Macabre (1980)
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (1988) (with f-stop Fitzgerald)
Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude (1994) (with Dave Barry, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver and Amy Tan)
Stephen King Live (1999)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
The WaveDancer Benefit (2002) (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Peter Straub)
Building Bridges: Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards (2004)
Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the 2004 Season (2004) (with Stewart O'Nan)







Anthologies containing stories by Stephen King Top

Tales of Unknown Horror (1976)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Shadows (1978)
The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978)
More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
The Year's Finest Fantasy Volume 2 (1979)
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1980)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
Fantasy Annual III (1981)
Fantasy Annual IV (1981)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
Shadows 4 (1981)
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1983)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
Horrors (1986)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Dark Visions (1988)
Horror Stories (1988)
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
Prime Evil (1988)
Book of the Dead (1989)
Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (1990)
Horrorstory Volume Three (1992)
I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)
The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
Dark Love (1995)
Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films (1995)
The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Best of the Best (1997)
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997)
Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (1998)
Legends (1998)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
999 (1999)
A Haunting Collection (1999)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)


Short stories Top

Cain Rose Up (1968)
Here There Be Tygers (1968)
The Reaper's Image (1969)
Graveyard Shift (1970)
I Am the Doorway (1971)
Battleground (1972)
The Mangler (1972)
The Boogeyman (1973)
Gray Matter (1973)
Trucks (1973)
Night Surf (1974)
Sometimes They Come Back (1974)
The Lawnmower Man (1975)
Salem's Lot (excerpt) (1975)
Strawberry Spring (1975)
I Know What You Need (1976)
The Ledge (1976)
The Cat from Hell (1977)
Children of the Corn (1977)
The Man Who Loved Flowers (1977)
One for the Road (1977)
The Gunslinger (1978)
Jerusalem's Lot (1978)
The Last Rung on the Ladder (1978)
The Night of the Tiger (1978)
Nona (1978)
Quitters, Inc. (1978)
The Woman in the Room (1978)
The Crate (1979)
Big Wheels (1980)
Crouch End (1980)
The Mist (1980)
The Monkey (1980)
The Way Station (1980) Nebula (nominee)
The Wedding Gig (1980)
The Jaunt (1981)
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands (1981)
The Reach (1981)
aka Do the Dead Sing? World Fantasy
Apt Pupil (1982)
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (1982)
The Body (1982)
The Breathing Method (1982) World Fantasy (nominee)
Morning Deliveries (1982)
The Raft (1982)
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (1982)
Survivor Type (1982)
Uncle Clayton (1983)
Uncle Otto's Truck (1983)
The Word Processor (1983)
Word Processor of the Gods (1983)
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (1984) World Fantasy (nominee)
Gramma (1984)
Mrs Todd's Shortcut (1984)
The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson (1984)
Beachworld (1985)
For Owen (1985)
Paranoid: A Chant (1985)
The End of the Whole Mess (1986) World Fantasy (nominee)
The Fifth Quarter (1986)
Popsy (1987)
Dedication (1988)
The Night Flier (1988) Bram Stoker (nominee)
The Reploids (1988)
Sneakers (1988)
Dolan's Cadillac (1989)
Home Delivery (1989)
The Langoliers (1989) Bram Stoker (nominee)
The Library Policeman (1989)
My Pretty Pony (1989)
Rainy Season (1989)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (1989)
The Sun Dog (1989)
The Moving Finger (1990)
It Grows on You (1991)
Chattery Teeth (1992)
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (1992)
Brooklyn August (1993)
The Doctor's Case (1993)
Head Down (1993)
The House on Maple Street (1993)
Sorry, Right Number (1993)
Suffer the Little Children (1993)
The Ten O'Clock People (1993)
Umney's Last Case (1993)
The Man in The Black Suit (1994) World Fantasy
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe (1995) Bram Stoker
Autopsy Room Four (1997) Bram Stoker (nominee)
Blind Willie (1997)
Everything's Eventual (1997) Bram Stoker (nominee)
L.T.'s Theory of Pets (1997)
Lucky Quarter (1997)
The Little Sisters of Eluria (1998)
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French (1998)
Hearts in Atlantis (1999) British Fantasy Society (nominee)
Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling (1999)
Low Men in Yellow Coats (1999)
Riding the Bullet (1999) Bram Stoker (nominee)
The Road Virus Heads North (1999) British Fantasy Society (nominee)
Why We're in Vietnam (1999)
1408 (2000)
In the Deathroom (2000)


Still the most successful writer of the television age

Keep the faith

Stay Whirly

Writing a lot doesn't make you successful. Sadly, becoming a cultural fad like Harry Potter and selling more books than hairs on your head makes you successful.

So you guys are saying Stephen King isn't successful?

Originally posted by Nataku8188
Writing a lot doesn't make you successful. Sadly, becoming a cultural fad like Harry Potter and selling more books than hairs on your head makes you successful.

I think King has had about 16 best sellers

man-thing i gotta see that movie

And Rowling is positioned to become the first billionaire author in history, she has more money than the Queen.

Originally posted by ScarletSpider
And Rowling is positioned to become the first billionaire author in history, she has more money than the Queen.

I think Rowling did a good thing getting kids to read again But you quoted Rowling at 250 million sales if you go here you'll see King is at 300 million books in print and has got just one story, by the way this is two years out of date and the Dark Tower has just gotten big since this was written

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1119/p01s03-ussc.html

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Keep the faith

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