Categorie: Joe Hill
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The Shivers Collection 1. Jackknife
Review: Barking up the wrong tree Jackknife is the first of five new short stories collected for Amazon Original Stories. A few years ago there was a collection of stories with creatures as antagonists, this time the stories will make you shiver! When down-on-his-luck Dennis Lang, who is involved in a scandal with one of…
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An Amazon original stories: Ushers
https://a.co/d/e1iwgbL Review: Joe Hill has mastered the art of short stories, just like his father, where in only a limited amount of pages he brings a terrifying and creepy tale. ‘Ushers’ provides all that in only just 29 pages! Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three year old counselor for disturbed teenagers, who has escaped death twice…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Creepshow 1 (1982)
Review: Based upon a graphic novel Stephen King wrote that was illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, who would later return to do illustrations for King’s novel ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’, King would work together to adapt the graphic novel into this anthology movie, directed by George A. Romero. In total there are five stories in this…
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Full Throttle
Review: This is a collection of thirteen stories, two of them completely new for the collection, all the others have been published somewhere else before. A few of these stories will get a separate review (such as Throttle and In the Tall Grass, both co-written with Stephen King). The review for Throttle is already online:…
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Full Throttle: Throttle
Review: This is Hill & King’s own take on a road trip gone bad with a truck and a few bikers! Joe Hill was asked to write a story for a Richard Matheson tribute collection. Immediately he knew what to write, a tribute to Matheson’s Duel (later adapted into a movie, the debut film of…
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Creature Feature Collection: The Pram
Review: Grief and obsession, two themes that are often the reason for great horror stories. When Willy and Marianne level behind Brooklyn to move to rural Maine in an old farmhouse, they leave behind pain and grief for a never born baby. Their inability to have children is harsh and they want to start a…
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Movie Marathon: The Black Phone (2022)
Synopsis: Finney Blake is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of no use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are…
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