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Here are my favourite Stephen King film adaptations from 10-1, number one of course being the best. 10. Needful Things (1993) – I’m picking this one because I don’t often see it getting talked up. And because I loved the book. It was one of my absolute favourites. The film isn’t a classic, but it […]

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September 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: King Collection

The first book by Stephen King that I read was Pet Semetary – with its typo in the title. And maybe I didn’t even know that was wrong when I read it – everything seemed so right, I’d found my new home. The second book by Stephen King for me was It. The cover as […]

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September 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 2 Stephen King

I don’t know why people mention Stephen King as if some guilty pleasure, or worse – just straight out don’t rate him, consider him a hack, some below-literature grade of fluke-artist who sold his soul to the movies and got lucky. That’s nuts. That dude can write! In fact he was probably my first writing […]

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May 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1379

Pino Donaggio, The Howling [OST] (1981) The music from The Howling has long been one of my favourites; it does what I want from a horror-film soundtrack – chiefly: scares the shit out of me. The film was one of a handful I was profoundly affected by as a youngster. I was traumatised by a […]

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September 20, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1841

Cliff Richard, Private Collection: 1979-1988 (1988) During a recent one-day trip to Australia I found this for $8 and thought bargain. You see I’m not that much of a Cliff Richard fan but I was pretty sure that he put out better songs across the 1980s than most of the “heritage acts” that were still […]