{"id":5811,"date":"2015-03-02T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:50:21","slug":"stephen-king-news-from-the-dead-zone-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/stephen-king-news-from-the-dead-zone-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #176"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not every day that you get a brand new short story from Stephen King for free, right? Well, today is just one of those days. “A Death” will appear in print in the March 9 issue of The New Yorker, but the story is online right now<\/a>. There’s also a brief Q&A with King<\/a> on the New Yorker website.<\/p>\n

“A Death” will be included in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams<\/em>, King’s next collection, due out in November. Among the stories we expect to see in that collection are “Ur” and “Bad Little Kid,” which will be appearing in English for the first time anywhere. (I reviewed it for Fearnet<\/a> last year.)<\/p>\n

The forthcoming story “Drunken Fireworks,” which will be released in audio on June 30th, will also be in Bazaar<\/em>. \u00a0Here’s the publisher’s description: “In this new tour-de-force from Stephen King\u2014unavailable in print or any other format\u2014a salt-of-the-earth Maine native recounts how a friendly annual summer fireworks show rivalry with his neighbor across the lake gradually spirals out of control\u2026with explosive results!”<\/p>\n

Before that collection, though, we’ll get Finders Keepers<\/em> on June 2, the follow-up to Mr. Mercedes<\/em>. The audio version will once again be read by Will Patton. Here is the publisher’s copy for the novel:<\/p>\n

\u201cWake up, genius.\u201d So begins King\u2019s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn\u2019t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.<\/p>\n

Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Sauberg finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he\u2019s released from prison after thirty-five years.<\/p>\n

Not since Misery<\/em> has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life\u2014for good, for bad, forever.\"finders_keepers_us_hardcover_full_small\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Marvel graphic novel adaptation of The Drawing of the Three<\/em> continues with the release of House of Cards<\/em> #1<\/a> on March 24.<\/p>\n

Adaptation news:<\/p>\n