“Therefore, it was said earlier: ‘O King, constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord after the ways of the great authorities is the doubtless and fearless way of success for all, including those who are free from all material desires, and also those who are desirous of all material...
You’d have to really pay attention to its convoluted plot to notice that “Quantum” refers to the name of the mysterious shadow organization run in part by the movie’s villain. It’s a cool word, calling to mind such complex notions as physics and math, but even in context it’s s...
he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice.Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.School in the family of vocational education“have that stereotype...that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical ...
Before Wicker Man and King's own short story "Children of the Corn" from his short story collection Night Shift, there was Thomas Tryon's 1973 pagan horror classic. A city-dwelling family, exhausted by urban life, decamps for the country and moves into a 300-year-old farmhouse in the ...
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep $9 at Walmart See More Best Books By Stephen King Pet Sematary A Descent Into the Darkest Corners of Grief A doctor and his family move to a new town, only to discover a creepy pet cemetery in the woods. What seems like a sweet way to mourn becomes ...
Rob Savage directed the scariest horror movie in years with lockdown smash Host, and now he’s making his studio debut with an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Boogeyman. Based on the horror writer’s short story of the same name, the movie follows two sisters dealing with grief and a ...
Another movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel is getting a remake, "Salem's Lot." "Salem's Lot" started as a two-part TV mini-series in 1979 (like "IT"), and was later put together to create a full movie-length adaptation. After the success of "Salem's Lot" came the 1987 ...
Born March 12, 1914—John Symonds. Critic of Alistair Crowley who published four, yes four, books on him over a fifty-year period:The Great Beast,The Magic of Aleister Crowley,The King of the Shadow RealmandThe Beast 666. Needless to say the advocates of Crowley aren’t at all happy wi...
Born July 21, 1933—John Gardner.Grendel, the retelling of Beowulf from the monster’s viewpoint, is likely the only work he’s remembered for.Gudgekin The Thistle Girl (and Other Tales)are genre fairy tales as areThe King of the Hummingbirds (and Other Tales); A Child’s Bestiaryis,...
can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town.With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more fr...