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jhanic
06-25-2012, 09:16 AM
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

biomieg
06-25-2012, 09:41 AM
If Mr. King continues to release new stories at this rate, we'll be looking at a new collection in 2014 or so!

Ben Staad
06-25-2012, 10:04 AM
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

Thanks for the update.

Mr. Rabbit Trick
06-25-2012, 10:37 AM
She also stated that it was NOT the 2nd part of In the Tall Grass.

TwistedNadine
06-25-2012, 12:17 PM
If Mr. King continues to release new stories at this rate, we'll be looking at a new collection in 2014 or so!

You mean a new book collecting these new short story releases? I hope so. Love his short story collections.

biomieg
06-25-2012, 12:38 PM
Yep, that's what I meant!

WeDealInLead
06-25-2012, 01:36 PM
How many uncollected since JAS? I don't count FD,NS because he wrote those stories specifically for the collection.

UR
Mile 81
Dune
In the Tall Grass
Throttle
Herman Wouk...

I'm sure there are more but I'm drawing a blank.

Bev Vincent
06-25-2012, 02:37 PM
“Throttle,” with Joe Hill, He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson, Gauntlet Press, Feb 2009.
“Ur,” available only through Amazon for Kindle, February 2009.
“Morality,” Esquire, summer 2009.
“Premium Harmony,” The New Yorker, November 9, 2009.
“Herman Wouk is Still Alive,” The Atlantic, May 2011.
“Under the Weather,” bonus story in paperback edition of Full Dark, No Stars, May 2011.
“Mile 81,” eBook only novella from Scribner, September 1, 2011.
“The Little Green God of Agony,” A Book of Horrors, September 2011.
“The Dune,” Granta magazine’s Fall/Winter issue, October 27, 2011.
“In the Tall Grass” (with Joe Hill), Esquire. Part 1: June/July 2012; Part 2: August 2012.

TwistedNadine
06-25-2012, 04:03 PM
Add in this other one soon to be released and seems enough to make a decent short story collection.

stkmw02
06-25-2012, 04:39 PM
I love the short collections... I consider them "desserts" compared the "meals" of his novels.

The Great Buchinsky
06-25-2012, 05:13 PM
I would also like to see The Crate officially collected.

Bev Vincent
06-26-2012, 02:24 AM
I'm not sure how they'd handle Throttle and In the Tall Grass as part of a Stephen King collection.

TwistedNadine
06-26-2012, 08:44 AM
I'm not sure how they'd handle Throttle and In the Tall Grass as part of a Stephen King collection.

Note sure how copyrights and publishing works but wondering why would that be a problem? Ive seen collected short stories from authors that included collaborated works.

Bev Vincent
06-26-2012, 09:01 AM
It does complicate matters.

nocny
06-26-2012, 01:16 PM
“Mortality,” Esquire, summer 2009.


It's MORALITY not MORTALITY

Randall Flagg
06-26-2012, 03:30 PM
“Mortality,” Esquire, summer 2009.


It's MORALITY not MORTALITY
No need to bust his balls with caps, a simple "It's Morality, not Mortality" would suffice. A PM also works.

DanishCollector
06-26-2012, 10:11 PM
I would assume the three poems, Mostly Old Men, The Bone Church and Tommy could get into the collection. Also Under the Weather although that was included in the paperback of FD,NS but was not really a true part of that book.

nocny
06-27-2012, 01:47 AM
No need to bust his balls with caps, a simple "It's Morality, not Mortality" would suffice. A PM also works.

I just wanted to mark out the titles...

Randall Flagg
06-27-2012, 12:35 PM
No need to bust his balls with caps, a simple "It's Morality, not Mortality" would suffice. A PM also works.

I just wanted to mark out the titles...
Ok. Sorry for busting your balls.:grouphug:

Darkday
06-29-2012, 03:39 PM
“Blockade Billy” can also be considered an uncollected story. Yes, it was published as a standalone book, but only in the US and the UK. An inclusion in the upcoming collection would make it accessible for the non-English speaking markets after all.

mae
06-29-2012, 03:47 PM
I doubt that. Cycle of the Werewolf had the same exact fate.

herbertwest
06-30-2012, 03:44 AM
“Blockade Billy” can also be considered an uncollected story. Yes, it was published as a standalone book, but only in the US and the UK. An inclusion in the upcoming collection would make it accessible for the non-English speaking markets after all.


In spanish too i believe. Ari did show a cover.
As a side note, 2 texts from N&D related to the baseball (head down, and a poem), were not translated and therefore published in the french version of N&D.

Niels
06-30-2012, 05:12 AM
“Blockade Billy” can also be considered an uncollected story. Yes, it was published as a standalone book, but only in the US and the UK. An inclusion in the upcoming collection would make it accessible for the non-English speaking markets after all.

In Dutch too, published together with "Morality".

frik
06-30-2012, 11:33 AM
“Blockade Billy” can also be considered an uncollected story. Yes, it was published as a standalone book, but only in the US and the UK. An inclusion in the upcoming collection would make it accessible for the non-English speaking markets after all.

In Dutch too, published together with "Morality".

http://denachtvlinders.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/eenmalige-zonde-stephen-king.jpg

sk

Ari_Racing
07-01-2012, 06:57 PM
I confirm it's present in the Blockade Billy spanish edition as well.

mae
07-05-2012, 05:53 PM
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/showthread.php/25030-The-very-next-Stephen-King-release/page2

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

skyofcrack
07-09-2012, 12:17 PM
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.

http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s323/skyofcrack/gq_april_2012_spain_sk_sect_a.jpg

eBay listing (http://www.ebay.com/itm/GQ-Espana-Magazine-April-2012-Rafa-Nadal-Stephen-King-Sect-A-/170874817178?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3 D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D491748574577133738%26pid%3D 100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26#ht_1442wt_1037)

you ever seen a ghost?
07-09-2012, 12:24 PM
seems like we would have heard about this by now?

-justin

you ever seen a ghost?
07-09-2012, 12:26 PM
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
07-09-2012, 12:38 PM
That's why I don't want to plunk down $13 to find out.

biomieg
07-09-2012, 12:40 PM
I'm sure fellow forum member Ari_Racing can help us out.

skyofcrack
07-09-2012, 01:09 PM
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. :wink:

mae
07-17-2012, 02:01 PM
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/showthread.php?1172-Just-After-Sunset-New-King-short-story-collection&p=112496&viewfull=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
07-17-2012, 11:07 PM
^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
07-18-2012, 02:16 AM
And of course, newly written short stories !

mae
07-18-2012, 08:20 AM
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
07-18-2012, 09:52 AM
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
07-20-2012, 03:13 AM
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
07-20-2012, 06:10 AM
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
08-26-2012, 05:00 PM
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/showthread.php?1172-Just-After-Sunset-New-King-short-story-collection&p=112496&viewfull=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
08-27-2012, 08:57 AM
+ "in the tall grass"

WeDealInLead
08-27-2012, 09:55 AM
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/features/2009/11/09/091109fi_fiction_king

mae
08-27-2012, 10:27 AM
+ "in the tall grass"

Already listed.