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    Stephen King: Unpublished, Uncollected – 2014 Update
    Stephen King: Unpublished, Uncollected – 2014 Update
    Stephen King: Unpublished, Uncollected – 2014 Update
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    Stephen King: Unpublished, Uncollected – 2014 Update

    By Rocky Wood

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    This is the 2014 update to the Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished Fourth Revised and Expanded Edition. Major Updates in this 2014 Update for the Revised and Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and only Found in the Overlook Connection Press Editions! As with Rocky Wood's 2012 Revised and Expanded edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished, this 2014 Update is an addendum to that volume and features many new and rare Stephen King pieces not previously discussed. There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about Stephen Kings hidden work, Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished. This edition is likely to prove to the definitive book about Kings uncollected, unpublished and lost works. The Stephen King Uncollected Unpublished Fourth Revised and Expanded edition is still available and can be purchased together to give you a complete and current information to these rare works. In this Addendum to previous editions you will find full detail about: A poem lost since King s college days; Two unpublished short stories from the 1970s; A story that won King a prize (and a lecture) when he was in High School; Two lost stories from King s fan fiction days; A play he wrote when he was 12 for his boy scout troop; Important updates are provided to information about these previously known works After the Play; Kings senior Class Day play (including its title, content, and comments from King); and the story King wrote in fifth grade about his classmates being taken hostage. A number of stories Stephen King is rumored to have written are dealt with. Some obscure stories have been republished in easy to access form and that information is provided for readers. A centerpiece of this Update is the full description of a lengthy busted novel Phil and Sundance. In addition, a new busted story that appeared to have great promise is described. The latest published but uncollected works are analyzed, including: A Face in the Crowd. Afterlife. Bad Little Kid. Batman and Robin Have an Altercation. 11/22/63 Final Despatch.
    In the Tall Grass. The Rock and Roll Dead Zone. Summer Thunder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOverlook Connection Press
    Release dateOct 20, 2014
    ISBN9781623300531
    Stephen King: Unpublished, Uncollected – 2014 Update
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    Rocky Wood

    Rocky Wood's unabashed sense of detail and research on Stephen King and his work has brought many readers new insight into this author's rare work. He is also the current President of the Horror Writers Association, and is constantly working towards the betterment of writers within the horror genre. His previous publications also include Stephen King: A Literary Companion, Horrors! Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators by Rocky Wood (and illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne), and Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks. The 2012 edition of STEPHEN KING: UNCOLLECTED, UNPUBLISHED features many new contributions on Stephen King's work never before seen. He is also the author of two graphic novels, including Witch Hunts! A Graphic History of the Burning Times, which won the 2012 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.

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      Stephen King - Rocky Wood

      Introduction

      In 2006 Cemetery Dance published the First Edition of my ground-breaking work, Stephen King: Unpublished, Uncollected. Four years of research had resulted in a book that identified some 51 works by Stephen King that had not been published and a further 46 that had been published but not gathered in one of his fiction collections. That book and each subsequent edition exclusively published a complete chapter from King’s unpublished novel, Sword in the Darkness and reprinted an obscure poem, Dino.

      By the time the Fourth Edition was published by the Overlook Connection Press in 2012 research had uncovered many more unpublished works. King had also published the collections Just After Sunset and Full Dark, No Stars. At that time there were 54 unpublished and 54 uncollected works. Each is described fully in that Fourth Edition, including advice to readers as to how (and if) they might obtain a copy.

      This 2014 Update reveals my latest research, often with the gracious input of Stephen King. Many mysteries have been cleared up and more unpublished works identified. In many cases Steve kindly provided commentary and information, which is published here for the first time. Of course, as we investigate the past, King writes in the present and has published a number of short stories that have yet to be collected. Including material in this 2014 Update the count is now at 58 unpublished and 61 uncollected works of fiction by Stephen King!

      As you read through the latest research gathered here you will find full detail about:

      A poem lost since King’s college days

      Two unpublished short stories from the 1970s

      A story that won King a prize (and a lecture) when he was in High School

      Two lost stories from King’s fan fiction days

      A play he wrote when he was 12 for his boy scout troop

      Important updates are provided to information about these previously known works – After the Play; King’s senior Class Day play (including its title, content, and comments from King); and the story King wrote in fifth grade about his classmates being taken hostage.

      A number of stories King is rumored to have written are dealt with.

      Some obscure stories have been republished in easy to access form and that information is provided for readers.

      A centerpiece of this Update is the full description of a lengthy busted novel – Phil and Sundance. In addition a new busted story that appeared to have great promise is described.

      The latest published but uncollected works are analyzed, including:

      A Face in the Crowd

      Afterlife

      Bad Little Kid

      Batman and Robin Have an Altercation

      11/22/63 – Final Despatch

      In the Tall Grass

      The Rock and Roll Dead Zone; and

      Summer Thunder

      All this new information has been discovered in just two years, proving again how prolific King is – in the present, as well as the past!

      Update to the Introduction

      This section updates material in the Introduction to the Fourth Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished.

      The Bram Stoker Awards® for Superior Achievement have been presented since 1987 by members of the Horror Writers Association. King has won the Novel Award for Misery (in a tie with Robert McCammon’s epic, Swan Song), The Green Mile, Bag of Bones, Lisey’s Story and Duma Key; Fiction Collection for Four Past Midnight, Full Dark, No Stars and Just After Sunset; Long Fiction for Lunch at the Gotham Café; Short Fiction for Herman Wouk is Still Alive and Non Fiction for On Writing. Through 2013 he has been nominated a further 19 times, the latest for Doctor Sleep (his son Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 was nominated in the same category - Superior Achievement in a Novel. In 2003 he received the HWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

      We now know of 58 unpublished[i] and 61 uncollected works of fiction by Stephen King.

      The general King readership can easily access over 150 individual Works of Fiction, in some 46 published novels[ii], with 109 shorter works compiled in his nine collections[iii].

      In total there are at least 289 separately identifiable King story-lines, including other fictional works such as poems and screenplays. When all the differing versions, variations and titles of these works are taken into account there are about 402 different variants!

      King is famed (and sometimes brick-batted) for the sheer volume of words he produces. Many novels are in the high hundreds of pages, with three exceeding 900, epics in their own right. One mythology (The Dark Tower) is barely contained in eight novels, two novellas, a raft of related tales and a series of Marvel comic extensions.

      Updates to: Linking Stephen King’s Realities

      This section updates material in the Linking Stephen King’s Realities section of the Fourth Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished.

      All true King fans note these many links between his works, often deliberately put there by King for the enjoyment of ‘Constant Readers’. In a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly about Doctor Sleep King had this to say about the subject, ‘My son calls those things Easter Eggs. There’s a little Salem’s Lot Easter egg in Doctor Sleep. I don’t know if anyone will spot it or not but it’s there. All of the books kind of relate to other ones. The only exception is The Stand, where the whole world gets destroyed. I guess it’s sort of like Stephen King World, the malevolent version of Disney World, where everything fits together.’

      The following stories have either been published or identified as newly discovered unpublished works since the Fourth Edition, and have been assigned to Realities as follows:

      America Under Siege

      Afterlife

      Bad Little Kid

      Batman and Robin Have an Altercation

      Doctor Sleep

      11/22/63 – Final Dispatch

      A Face in the Crowd

      In the Tall Grass

      Joyland

      Mr Mercedes

      The Dark Tower

      The Wind Through The Keyhole

      Maine Street Horror

      Batman

      Phil and Sundance

      The Rock And Roll Dead Zone

      New Worlds

      Summer Thunder

      Update to The Dark Tower section

      In 2012 King published an extension to the mythos, with a novella that falls mid-stream in the narrative (King described it as the Dark Tower 4.5), The Wind Through Keyhole.

      In October 2005 King and Marvel Comics announced the Dark Tower mythos would be extended with the publication of an initial six comic arc (to be collected in a hardcover edition). A series of arcs were published from 2007 and can be also purchased in collected hardback editions. Readers should note the original comic ‘arcs’, while collected in the hardcover graphic novels, contain a lot of background material about the Dark Tower Universe that are not included in those collections. This background is described by King’s former research assistant and writer of the comic series, Robin Furth. The comics and graphic novels may be purchased from specialist stores or on the internet without difficulty.

      The series released to April 2013 when it went into hiatus (in reading order) are:

      The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born; The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home; The Dark Tower: Treachery; The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (one-shot comic, not collected); The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead; The Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill; The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins; The

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