307: Bonus Ep: Diving Into The Stephen King Archives with Professor Caroline Bicks
The Kingcast
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4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
University of Maine Professor (and the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, by the way) Caroline Bicks spent a year combing through King's original manuscripts at his own personal archive and that resulted in an essential book for King obsessives: Monsters In The Archives that gives us new insights into King's process and illuminates paths not taken on some of his most iconic stories, like The Shining, Pet Sematary, Carrie, Night Shift, and 'Salem's Lot.
These bonus episodes are usually exclusive to The Kingcast Patreon, so if you want more of this make sure to sign up over at www.patreon.com/thekingcast.
Also make sure to order your copy of Monsters in the Archives at your local bookstore or at www.carolinebicks.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Vespi here. So you're going to get an extra bit of Kingcast goodness this week. |
| 0:05.0 | We have the author and professor Caroline Bix on, and you're going to hear our episode that would |
| 0:11.9 | usually exist only behind the paywall over at Patreon. But it's a great episode. We wanted to |
| 0:17.6 | give everybody a little taste of it, give her a chance to pimp out her great book, Monsters in the Archives, which can be picked up right now in a bookstore near you. |
| 0:25.8 | And if you like what you hear, make sure to sign up for more over at patreon.com slash the Kingcast. |
| 0:30.7 | You'll get access to all of our new bonus episodes as they come out that exist only behind |
| 0:36.4 | that little paywall. And not |
| 0:39.5 | only that, you're going to get access to our |
| 0:41.1 | Discord and over five years |
| 0:43.4 | of bonus episodes. So if you dig |
| 0:45.3 | what you hear, make sure to sign up over |
| 0:47.2 | at patreon.com slash the kingcast |
| 0:49.3 | for more like it. And |
| 0:51.1 | yeah, without any further ado, |
| 0:53.1 | let's get on with the chat shall we |
| 0:54.4 | the ice |
| 0:57.9 | hi |
| 1:02.2 | my name is Stephen King |
| 1:05.3 | the ice is going to break. |
| 1:13.3 | Dead rum. |
| 1:14.8 | Red love. |
| 1:17.2 | You guys want to go see a dead body? |
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