Wolves of the Calla succeeds as a standalone work. It works because King, despite his long resume, keeps insisting on surprising himself and, in so doing, surprising us.īrilliant in technique and ability.Feed your head! Now dig in, 'cause King's latest in this seven-course banquet.is a lip-smacking, brain-filling repast. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement. is still quite the entertainer.Īn impressive work of mythic magnitude.

The man can spin a yarn, and a great one at that. hypnotic blend of suspense and sentimentality.a sprawling, eventful tale of demons, monsters, narrow escapes, and magic portals. Wolves of the Calla is one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus. One gets the feeling that this colossal story means a lot to King, that he's telling it because he has to.he's giving The Dark Tower everything he's got. As a conceptual artist, Bernie worked on many movies, particularly in the horror genre, including Ghostbusters, The Faculty, Galaxy Quest, Spider-Man, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Frank Darabont’s Stephen King film The Mist. He worked on Spider-Man, Batman, and The Punisher, among many others, as well as works including Frankenstein Alive, Alive Dead, She Said The Ghoul and Doc Macabre, all cocreated with esteemed horror author Steve Niles. His bestselling collaborations with Stephen King on The Stand, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, Creepshow, and Cycle of the Werewolf are considered fan favorites. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.īernie Wrightson (1948–2017) was a comics illustrator and horror artist best known for cocreating Swamp Thing and his adaptation of the novel Frankenstein, both featuring his trademark intricate inking. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time.

His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock).

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr.

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