![]() Misery tells the tale of author Paul Sheldon, who is rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes after a near-fatal car accident. “I’m your biggest fan” has never sounded more threatening. From the hand-painted “pet semetary” sign to the haunting SFX makeup, this film feels like a scary campfire story come to life.įilm still from Pet Semetary # 6 Misery (1990) King weaves this story of the supernatural into a beautiful exploration of grief and family. When death visits the family, Louis is confronted with the temptation to try and harness this power. The pet cemetery behind Louis Creed’s new home has a strange power over life and death. Here are seven Stephen King stories to watch to get you in the Halloween mood. While this post focuses more closely on the film adaptations, don’t forget to check out the books that inspired them in the first place. ![]() Whether you’re looking for a freaky film to fill your Friday night or a good book to seep into your dreams, we’ve got you covered. With more than 50 published novels and nearly 60 film adaptions, King doesn't just have a story for every season, he has dozens. This wordsmith has crafted terrifying tales about everything from bloodthirsty killers to murderous everyday objects. When you think about the horror genre, thoughts of Stephen King aren't far behind and for good reason. ![]() We’re in the mood to talk about the king-Stephen King. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book made me continue my audible membership!! Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side - including the monsters within. In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A Darker Shade of Magic. ![]() But Kate discovers August's secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who's just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent - but he's one of the monsters. ![]() All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city - a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. ![]() The first of two books, This Savage Song is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains - and friends or enemies - with the future of their home at stake. There's no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. ![]() ![]() ![]() While viewed as a menace by the New York public health department, the legal system, media, and general public, Mary Mallon was also a powerfully plucky bad ass, who despite institutional entities against her, little education, and limited support, fought her detainment till her death in 1938. Often told with a reductionist focus in science textbooks, Judith Walzer Leavitt’s social history, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public Health(1997), sets Mallon’s story straight. ![]() Cracking skulls and taking names, Mary Mallon was villainously recreated in the popular press as “Typhoid Mary.” From New York American, June 20, 1909. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by this visit, Parker, and her mother, Jessica Curry, tell the story of a young girl and her family, whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment, in a moving picture book. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. She saw a queen-one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl's imagination. When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald's transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn't just see the First Lady of the United States. ![]() A New York Times bestseller A visit to Washington, DC's National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry's young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait. ![]() ![]() He really had to go for reasons that, if there's ever a book sequel, will become clear. ![]() I think there are two reasons that Owen was so - let's call it succinct, so we don't kill him - in the "protect her" note, and one was a time thing. So watching those two actors perform in that scene, was a big few days for me. And the reason they go there is for this kid that they both love, even if it means for Hannah sacrificing Owen, and even if it means for Nicholas really sacrificing everything he thought he was capable of doing in the interest of having a relationship with his granddaughter. I thought about it in terms of almost being a three-act play in which they're meeting, they're in conflict, and the resolution is going to be somewhere neither of them thought they would ever go. But what we had here was that it was really a meeting of the mind and a manipulation. Because often, in a thriller or a mystery, that would be the moment where guns would come out blazing or someone would be choked from behind or what have you. ![]() Because when I wrote that in the book, everything in me was writing toward that exchange, toward that meeting. ![]() That would be the conversation between David Morse, the actor playing Nicholas Bell, and Jen, playing Hannah Hall, in episode 7. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (He didn’t.) He asserted that he’d been “exonerated” from accusations that he attempted to strong-arm Ukraine into digging up dirt on Biden. He claimed to have finished the border wall. Over and over again, a self-assured Trump lied and rewrote history. economy.”ĪBOUT LAST NIGHT - To call it a shitshow would be generous.ĬNN’s New Hampshire town hall with DONALD TRUMP last night may have done more to boost his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination than anything that’s happened since the 2020 election. ![]() ![]() Warns Migrants Before End of Pandemic Restrictions That ‘Border Is Not Open’” … WaPo: “Texas uses aggressive tactics to arrest migrants as Title 42 ends” … AP: “Huge number of asylum seekers at US-Mexico border as COVID-19 restrictions end, new rules begin”īREAKING - “Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent - or shut down,” by Alex Guillén: “The highly anticipated regulation being unveiled Thursday morning is just the latest step in President JOE BIDEN’s campaign to green the U.S. CNN’s New Hampshire town hall with Donald Trump last night may have done more to boost his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination than anything that’s happened since the 2020 election. ![]() ![]() ![]() A writer’s writer, Merritt’s literary admirers are many. Merritt, Abraham Grace Merritt (1884Ð1943) was an American journalist, editor, and author of fantasy. Aficionados of early 20th century fantasy, horror, and weird fiction are sure to enjoy it. It’s in doing so that Lowell first learns the name of the aged toymaker Madame Mandilip, whose remarkably lifelike dolls were purchased by all those afflicted by this baffling condition…īurn, Witch, Burn! is a gripping tale of science and superstition. Instead, he is forced to play detective, seeking out evidence of anyone else who has suffered a similar fate. Yet, neither his education nor years of experience as a physician avail him in finding a straightforward explanation. Lowell agrees to help, initially out of scientific curiosity. ![]() He promises Lowell a huge sum of money to save his lieutenant’s life or, barring that, to discover the nature of his inexplicable paralysis and what - or who - is responsible for it. Ricori’s most trusted associate is afflicted with a mysterious ailment that has left him catatonic and Ricori fearful for the first time in his life. Lowell must grapple when the notorious gangster Julian Ricori pays him a visit. ![]() This is precisely the conundrum with which Dr. But what if there is no rational cause? What then? By nature and by training, he is predisposed to look for the rational causes behind even the most seemingly irrational behaviors and events. Lowell is a man of science - a medical doctor and world renowned expert in the field of abnormal psychology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A fascinating story of psychological intrigue.' Mystery and Suspense Novel Review 'Intimate moments of struggle, frustration, and some of life's most daunting questions come to life by such real characters. ![]() Terror-struck, the three protagonists vie against a backdrop of ironic evil as they are stalked by an unidentified villain who breaks all the rules and sends Chief of police and reluctant clairvoyant Frank Murphy scrambling against the clock in a murder mystery showdown that leaves all questioning what is real and what is beyond this world. People with delusional disorder often experience non-bizarre delusions. The belief isn’t a part of the person’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows this belief to be false. ![]() Heath Sommer brings to life the precursor stories of characters John Joe, Addy Siwel, and Merci Bowku, who were introduced to the world in the 2009 contemporary mystery The Manufactured Identity. A delusion is an unshakable belief in something that’s untrue. Loner Addy Siwel only wanted answers when she signed up for a freshman course in theologywhat she got was the attention of a murderer. Terror-struck, the three protagonists vie against a backdrop of ironic evil as they are stalked by an unidentified villain who breaks all the rules and sends Chief of. Heath Sommer brings to life the precursor stories of characters John Joe, Addy Siwel, and Merci Bowku, who were introduced to the world in the 2009 contemporary mystery The Manufactured Identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because that is exactly how dorks like me… I mean passionate teachers like me… roll. I would then fill the bag with sunscreen, a towel, my sunglasses, a water bottle, and 1-2 teaching books. With much fanfare, I would put my beach bag in its place of prominence by the door. I would ceremoniously retire my teacher bag to the back of the closet. But as soon as they boarded their buses, I too would squeal out of that parking lot and begin my commute from school straight to those coveted lazy days of summer! After 179.5 days together, they had become like family to me. Sure, I shed some annual tears as I said goodbye to the sweet kiddos. I would count the seconds to summer vacation with jubilation. ![]() family involvement at home and in schoolīefore I share chapter book read alouds you should add to your reading list this summer, let my share how the end of every school year typically played out for me.SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM.organizing classroom supplies and teaching materials.teacher time management and productivity. ![]() ![]() For more details on Toby's world, and for answers to your specific questions, please see the Toby Daye FAQ page. The October Daye series is published in North America by DAW Books, with cover art by Christian McGrath and interior dingbats by Tara O'Shea. The first sixteen books in the series are available now: ![]() ![]() The October Daye books follow the adventures of October "Toby" Daye as she tries to find her footing in a world that seems a little more interested in killing her than she'd like. Things have been going downhill ever since. She ran away the moment the opportunity presented itself, only to find that the human world wasn't any better. Born in San Francisco and carried to the Summerlands by her pureblood mother when she was just a child, she was raised in a world that never seemed capable of understanding her. October Daye knows how cruel Faerie can be to its changeling children. ![]() Changelings aren't stolen children they're mortal halfbreeds born where the fae and human worlds collide, never able to fully belong to either, outsiders from birth. ![]() But sometimes they take human lovers, and sometimes, those unions are fertile ones. They survive in secrecy, keeping their Courts in the places where the light doesn't fall, existing in parallel to the world we know. The fairy tales, ballads, and folklore of the mortal world are only shadows of the true, sometimes terrible reality of the fae. ![]() |