So you would think the market would be inundated with everything from sprawling Dark Tower open-world RPGs to Christine skins in racing games. In addition, he is a strong advocate of new entertainment technologies who will sell the rights to adapt his stories for just one dollar. In fact, he is one of the best-selling living novelists. Stephen King has more than moderate success. This may be particularly true for genre fiction, although some more “literary” novels have also been adapted into video games, such as last year’s interactive fiction on Orwell’s Animal Farm. One need only look at the success of The Witcher series to see that there are serious possibilities for games based on books. While movies may still be the default, we are seeing more and more popular books being told as premium TV shows big budget audio dramas and, of course, video games. I find this so surprising because sooner or later any author, however moderately successful, tends to have their work adapted in other media. I particularly wanted to revisit this story because hey, in case you can’t tell, I really like video games and The Mist is one of the few King stories to have received a video game adaptation. My choice of Skeleton Crew for this Halloween’s reading material was not random, as it opens with King’s 1980 short story The Mist.
I am, after all, a self-confessed horror nerd. It is true that some of his works have not aged brilliantly, but despite a lot of roughness, he remains undeniably one of my favorite authors of all time.
Back in my crazy teenage years, I bunged all of King’s published catalog of fiction, and now that it’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten most of the details, I treat myself to some selective re-readings. Halloween weekend is almost upon us and on my coffee table is my battered old paperback from Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection of horror short stories written by Stephen King.
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