New King story?

[mae]

This was posted by Ms Mod at the SKMB a few days ago regarding a new King story:

Another one will be coming out in a month or so but can't release details yet.

John

Actually, it sounds like it could be multiple short stories:

http://www.stephenking.com/forums/sh...-release/page2

There have been (and will be) some short stories released, too, but no other novel is forthcoming in 2012.

[skyofcrack]

I haven't seen any other references to the King story, 'Sect A,' which apparently appeared in the Spanish version of GQ (April 2012 issue). I don't read Spanish but I'll still probably track it down for being the first appearance in print.



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[you ever seen a ghost?]

seems like we would have heard about this by now?

-justin

[you ever seen a ghost?]

actually, are you sure that the "story" is supposed to be called "Sect A" and its not talking about part of the magazine? if so, this could just be an interview or something.

-justin

[skyofcrack]

That's why I don't want to plunk down $13 to find out.

[biomieg]

I'm sure fellow forum member Ari_Racing can help us out.

[skyofcrack]

False alarm. I contacted the seller.

Section A is the unit of shelves that the magazine is stored on nothing to do with the magazine at all sorry.

I asked what SK's contribution was.

I have no idea without going pulling it and reading it his name was on the front cover as you can tell so I listed him other than that I am unsure.

I guess it still could be story just not called Sect A.

[mae]

Since the topic of a new collection was brought up, I remembered my post from four years ago, when Just After Sunset came out:

http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...l=1#post112496

Something else I just noticed. This is the first time in King's publishing history that he'll have a short story collection out twice in the same decade. Of course we've had Night Shift in 1978, Skeleton Crew in 1985, Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993, and now Everything's Eventual in 2002 and Just Past Sunset in 2008. There were 7 years in between Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, 8 years in between Skeleton Crew and Nightmares & Dreamscapes, 9 years (you feel the pattern? ) in between Nightmares & Dreamscapes and Everything's Eventual, and only 6 years, the fewest, in between Everything's Eventual and Just Past Sunset.

So a new collection would still have to be several years off. My best bet would be 2014 at the very earliest, most likely 2015. However, we can already have a sizable table of contents for this hypothetical collection:

Short stories and novellas:

• Throttle
• Ur
• Premium Harmony
• Herman Wouk is Still Alive
• Under the Weather
• The Little Green God of Agony
• Mile 81
• The Dune
• In the Tall Grass

Poems:

• Mostly Old Men
• The Bone Church
• Tommy

Also, since 1977's The Cat from Hell was finally collected in 2008 in Just After Sunset (even though King had stated in 1993 in his introduction to Nightmares & Dreamscapes that every story he wanted collected has been collected up to that point), I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility to also see these long-uncollected short stories:

"Lost" stories:

• Weeds
• The Night of the Tiger
• Man with a Belly
• The Crate
• The Reploids

I think these five lost stories have the best chance of being Cat-from-Helled, because they're not juvenilia like The Glass Floor or I Was a Teenage Grave Robber, but fully formed works that for whatever reason slipped through the cracks.

[johnsmith87]

^LOL, kudos for inventing a new verb, Cat-from-Helled. Also, I don't see a Spring 2014 short story collection as too far fetched. Would bridge the gap nicely between Doctor Sleep and Joyland in 2013 and what would presumably be a Fall 2014 novel.

[herbertwest]

And of course, newly written short stories !

[mae]

And of course, newly written short stories !

Yes, it'd be nice of King to include some unpublished stories like he used to, especially in N&D: Night Shift had four, Skeleton Crew had three (two of them poems), Nightmares & Dreamscapes had five (including the teleplay and the fable), Everything's Eventual had none (although one story appeared in print for the first time), and Just After Sunset had one.

[jhanic]

I'd still love to see "Weeds" in one of King's collections. That story, other than the over-the-top version in Creepshow, has never been reprinted, anywhere!

John

[Bev Vincent]

I'd still love to see "Weeds" in one of King's collections. That story, other than the over-the-top version in Creepshow, has never been reprinted, anywhere!

Here's a bit of trivia I stumbled upon while working on an essay for Screem magazine. Weeds was originally written as the first chapter of a novel, before Carrie, in 1970-71. "Once the weeds started to grow towards the town and the story started to spread beyond that closed world, I couldn't find any more to say."

[jhanic]

I remember reading something like that also. The ending of Weeds reminds me a bit of the ending of the story The Mist.

John

[mae]

Since the topic of a new collection was brought up, I remembered my post from four years ago, when Just After Sunset came out:

http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...l=1#post112496

Something else I just noticed. This is the first time in King's publishing history that he'll have a short story collection out twice in the same decade. Of course we've had Night Shift in 1978, Skeleton Crew in 1985, Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993, and now Everything's Eventual in 2002 and Just Past Sunset in 2008. There were 7 years in between Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, 8 years in between Skeleton Crew and Nightmares & Dreamscapes, 9 years (you feel the pattern? ) in between Nightmares & Dreamscapes and Everything's Eventual, and only 6 years, the fewest, in between Everything's Eventual and Just Past Sunset.

So a new collection would still have to be several years off. My best bet would be 2014 at the very earliest, most likely 2015. However, we can already have a sizable table of contents for this hypothetical collection:

Short stories and novellas:

• Throttle
• Ur
• Premium Harmony
• Herman Wouk is Still Alive
• Under the Weather
• The Little Green God of Agony
• Mile 81
• The Dune
• In the Tall Grass

Poems:

• Mostly Old Men
• The Bone Church
• Tommy

Also, since 1977's The Cat from Hell was finally collected in 2008 in Just After Sunset (even though King had stated in 1993 in his introduction to Nightmares & Dreamscapes that every story he wanted collected has been collected up to that point), I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility to also see these long-uncollected short stories:

"Lost" stories:

• Weeds
• The Night of the Tiger
• Man with a Belly
• The Crate
• The Reploids

I think these five lost stories have the best chance of being Cat-from-Helled, because they're not juvenilia like The Glass Floor or I Was a Teenage Grave Robber, but fully formed works that for whatever reason slipped through the cracks.

So, we can add now to the main roster:

• A Face in the Crowd
• Batman and Robin Have an Altercation

That makes it 11 short stories and novellas and 3 poems with 5 potential "lost" stories.

[herbertwest]

+ "in the tall grass"

[WeDealInLead]

I've been digging around for Premium Harmony on eBay because I haven't read it yet and voila, found the whole story online for free:
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/fea...i_fiction_king

[mae]

+ "in the tall grass"

Already listed.