Stephen King sculpture

Stephen King custom action figure made as a commission by Mike Leavitt. Via.

Link roundup

1. Stephen King's working on a sequel to The Shining, featuring a grown up Danny Torrance. I wonder how closely they'll be linked to the vampires from Salem's Lot/Wolves of the Calla.

2. Fun fundraiser for the CBLDF - - there's an auction at eBay for a Get Out Of Bleeding Cool Free card which will allow the winner the chance to remove a story that Bleeding Cool has published, or prevent one specifically from being published.

3. "Last weekend at least 100 people were treated for piranha bites from beaches in Brazil's northeast."

4. Most high profile bloggers are blatantly collegial in reviewing other "celebrity works" so it was shocking to see Roger Ebert's latest book described as "rambling and insufferable."

Sean Hartter's Dark Tower movie posters

Sean Hartter has finished his series of movie posters based on Stephen King's The Dark Tower (Warning, some of these are probably slight spoilers). His huge collection of posters is on display here and available for $16 each.

Book I: The Gunslinger



Book II: The Drawing of the Three



Book III: The Wastelands



Book IV: Wizard and Glass



Book V: The Wolves of the Callah



Book VI: Song of Susannah:



Book VII: The Dark Tower

Illustration roundup

The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands poster by Sean Hartter, who sells posters for $16 each.




Print by Steve Rude and Todd Klein going on sale June 1. Via.



Princess by Jane Kernan.



One of three Twin Peaks posters by Marcos Ojeda.




Chinatown movie poster by Zhanar Serikpayeva.

*Buy Polish movie posters at Amazon.

Dark Tower t-shirt

The Ka-Tet of Nineteen by Megan Lara is today's Tee Fury t-shirt.

*Previously: The Drawing of the Three poster.

Link roundup

1. AOL says it was losing $20 million a year on the News & Finance category.

2. Gallery of sad boyfriends modeling goods on Etsy.

3. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole will be published in 2012. Stephen King explains:

At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out November 8th), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and his ka-tet was told, but I realized there was at least one hole in the narrative progression: what happened to Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy between the time they leave the Emerald City (the end of Wizard and Glass) and the time we pick them up again, on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the beginning of Wolves of the Calla)?

There was a storm, I decided. One of sudden and vicious intensity. The kind to which billy-bumblers like Oy are particularly susceptible. Little by little, a story began to take shape. I saw a line of riders, one of them Roland’s old mate, Jamie DeCurry, emerging from clouds of alkali dust thrown by a high wind. I saw a severed head on a fencepost. I saw a swamp full of dangers and terrors. I saw just enough to want to see the rest. Long story short, I went back to visit an-tet with my friends for awhile. The result is a novel called The Wind Through the Keyhole. It’s finished, and I expect it will be published next year.

It won’t tell you much that’s new about Roland and his friends, but there’s a lot none of us knew about Mid-World, both past and present. The novel is shorter than DT 2-7, but quite a bit longer than the first volume—call this one DT-4.5. It’s not going to change anybody’s life, but God, I had fun.

*Buy The Dark Tower at Amazon.

Does this woman look like she has mental problems?

And maybe like a gunslinger, too? Naomie Harris is apparently being considered as one of the main characters in The Dark Tower. Do yourself a favor and read the (phenomenal) books now before the plot's totally spoiled for you. (And read Salem's Lot before reading Book 5.)

Does this woman look like she has mental problems?

And maybe like a gunslinger, too? Naomie Harris is apparently being considered as one of the main characters in The Dark Tower. Do yourself a favor and read the (phenomenal) books now before the plot's totally spoiled for you. (And read Salem's Lot before reading Book 5.)

UK covers for Stephen King's Under The Dome

Compare the UK covers for Stephen King's Under The Dome to the American version:



Via.

*Buy Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperback at Amazon.

UK covers for Stephen King's Under The Dome

Compare the UK covers for Stephen King's Under The Dome to the American version:



Via.

*Buy Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperback at Amazon.

Illustrations by John Picacio (and a very expensive book)

A few illustrations by John Picacio:


Cover for a limited edition of Dan Simmons's Drood (the best book I read last year.)



Cover to Michael Moorcock's The Metatemporal Detective.



Illustration for Stephen King's Salem's Lot.

That last illustration is part of Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King. The deluxe edition measures 11 x 15 inches, has 448 pages and over 500 illustrations, including 30 double-page foldouts. And it's listed for just under $1,000 at Amazon.

Here's the cover and few interior pages:





And here's an unboxing video showing it off (the book is revealed 2:30 in):



The book and a few prints are also available here.

Lisa Litwack's book covers for Stephen King novels

Lisa Litwack's book covers for Stephen King's novels. Links below are to Amazon:


Salem's Lot




Pet Sematary




The Shining

Posters for Stephen King movies

Posters for It, The Shining, and other movies based on Stephen King's books by Nick Tassone on sale here.

*Buy The Shining movie posters at eBay.