When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good.

Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer. So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.ĭancing alongside are three more long stories - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat'. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds- each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.Ī collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider. It's not a story that seems like a natural fit for a feature adaptation, but that's what people said about Gerald's Game, and Mike Flanagan's 2017 film is one of the best Stephen King movies of all time.If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas - Mr. The novella 'The Life Of Chuck' is split three acts that play out in reverse chronological order – with the opening being a surreal story that follows a protagonist living in what could be described as Chuck's internal world as he dies at the age of 39 from a brain tumor (it's quite the odd read). Hiddleston will play the titular character while Hamill will play Albie, Chuck's grandfather who raised him after the death of his parents at a young age. The project is going to be shopped at the upcoming Cannes market later this month, and one big selling point for it is the fact that it already has both Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill attached to star. Harrigan's Phone,' which was adapted by writer/director John Lee Hancock last year).

According to Deadline, the writer/director is now working on a feature film version of The Life Of Chuck – which is based on the novella of the same name from the 2020 collection If It Bleeds (the same book that includes 'Mr.

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