His first novel as Bachman was the story of a teenager who kills a teacher and then takes his class hostage, forcing them to admit to their base desired. Stephen King wanted to prove he could write and sell stories without using his name and used the pseudonym Richard Bachman to do so. Stanley Kubrick directed the adaptation, and while King hated the changes he made, it is one of the best horror movies of all-time. Soon, the evil spirits in the hotel possess Jack and tempt him to kill his family. Jack Torrance brings his wife and son to the Overlook Hotel in Colorado to work as the winter caretaker while it is closed. One of Stephen King’s most famous novels, The Shining is his haunted house story. THE SHINING (1977) Jack Nicholson in The Shining. There was a movie directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) in 1979 and a TV miniseries in 2004 with Rob Lowe. However, what he finds there is more horrific than anything he could write in his books as a vampire named Kurt Barlow has arrived in town. ‘Salem’s Lot is Stephen King’s vampire novel.īen Mears is a novelist who returns to Jerusalem’s Lot to finish writing his new book. Roland’s task is to make Eddie and Odetta into gunslingers before raging Detta destroys them all, and before the Pusher can continue his bloody killing spree.There have been three movie adaptations of this King novel alone. The third door leads to 1977 and the mind of a psychopath called The Pusher, the very criminal responsible for Odetta’s injuries. The second leads to 1964 and the divided personality of Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker, an African American woman who has lost the bottom half of her legs but gained a second, psychotic self.
The first opens onto New York, 1987, and the mind of a heroin addict called Eddie Dean. Fighting off the delirium brought on by the lobstrosity’s poison, Roland forces himself along the beach where he discovers three freestanding doorways that lead into our world. Roland kills the clawed creature, but not before it bites off two of his fingers and half of one big toe. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Īfter his final confrontation with the Man in Black in a remote mountain Golgotha, an exhausted Roland awakes on the beach of the Western Sea and is immediately attacked by a shoreline monster known as a lobstrosity. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels.
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