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Articles on Stephen King
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The Running Man is social commentary that delivers its message through aggressive, fast-paced action and explosive violence.
It has been a major year for Stephen King films.
A claustrophobic film that defies convention.
A response to the effects of the Vietnam war on young men, this tale gains new relevance in a climate of growing nationalistic fervour
From Carrie to The Shawshank Redemption, there are now more than 50 Stephen King film adaptations - making him one of the most adapted authors alive.
Dance is one of many ways in which The Life of Chuck celebrates the ordinary.
A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.
The film transposes Bram Stoker’s Dracula to 1970s New England.
Jackson was overlooked for decades by a predominantly male literary establishment who didn’t know how to categorise her deeply unsettling and uncomfortable writing.
These books had our academics gripped until their final pages.
The third book to feature the eponymous detective is a whydunnit not a whodunnit.
Our research shows that coulrophobia, or fear of clowns, is mainly triggered by being unable to understand their facial expressions.
Not everyone succeeds straight away and how you deal with failure can really make or break your career.
No other living horror writer has enjoyed Stephen King’s literary longevity. His monsters have lingered in the popular imagination, and that of our author.
Western literature began with a plague and ever since, writers have been using pandemics to comment on society.
Four spine chillers and a slapstick zombie comedy film to get you back out from behind the sofa.
Horror loves evil twins and doubles because of concepts like the uncanny and otherness. They also provide memorable images for movie makers.
Bilocation is a popular Christian myth but also one that is known to modern physics.
From Dundee to Dublin, horror spectaculars are springing up like zombies from the dead.
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Film History in the School of Society and Environment, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University
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Reader in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Film and Television, Course Leader BA Film Cultures, Kingston University
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Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Reader in Childhood Studies, Birmingham City University
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Associate Professor in Popular Literature, Trinity College Dublin
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Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Department of English, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, Medieval Literature, Bangor University
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Literature and Migration, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University