Stephen King by Rocky Wood

Author:Rocky Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: nonfiction, stephen king, nonfiction fiction
Publisher: Overlook Connection Press

Untitled – Under the Dome episode

In February 2014 King confirmed to me[xl] that he had written the first episode of the TV series Under the Dome’s Season 2. It is extremely unlikely this will ever be published but readers will be able to view the episode on DVD.

New Published but Uncollected Stories:

A Face in the Crowd

This story is a collaboration between King and Stuart O’Nan; they previously collaborated on the non-fiction volume, Faithful (2004). Both are baseball related. It was first published on 21 August 2012 in varying eBook formats and as an audio book, so is easily obtained.

The focus of this lengthy story is a widower – a transplanted New Englander living on the Gulf Coast of Florida, a Red Sox fan who’d coached Little League and had ‘magnanimously adopted the Devil Rays … as his second team.’ Not unlike Stephen King himself (although he only winters in Florida). Dean Evers had been married for forty six years and understands that watching the Rays on TV most nights was ‘just a way of passing time’ after his wife’s death.

One night Evers sees his old childhood dentist sitting in the Ray’s home crowd. The sight stuns Evers – he hasn’t seen the man in over fifty years but he doesn’t appear to have aged and is dressed in his ‘white sanitary smock’. He rationalizes the man must be a strikingly similar relative of the dentist. Later in the game, when Evers checks the seat behind home plate the man had been sitting in, it’s empty and remains that way. In bed, still awake at 3am, he worries that seeing Dr. Young might be a sign or an omen of some sort.

The next night he tunes in again. Late in the game he spots ‘three rows deep, in the same pinstripe suit he was buried in, his old business partner Leonard Wheeler.’ Evers and Wheeler had created a successful truck rental business but the relationship had soured over the business’ direction and Wheeler’s overbearing manner. Evers keeps his eyes glued to the TV; when the camera returns to Wheeler’s seat it is just as empty as Dr. Young’s the night before.

For the next game Evers sets his DVR ‘to capture whatever malevolent spirit his past might vomit up.’ This time it is a small boy – a schoolmate of Evers transferred in from Tennessee in the spring of 1954. Evers and his buddies mercilessly bullied Lester Embree for his accent, his lack of a live-in father and for his halting answers in class. Embree appears to point a finger directly at Evers and mouth, ‘Kill the ump.’ Evers recalls the quiet kid being pulled wrinkled and fingerless from Marsden’s Pond. That last appears to be a nod to two of the locations in King’s fiction – the Marsten House in ‘Salem’s Lot and One for the Road; and Runaround Pond from The Dead Zone. Both are based on locations in Durham, Maine, where King spent his later childhood.

When Evers checks the

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