Just King Things is a podcast discussing the books of Stephen King in publication order.

These are largely horror novels and deal with complicated and often disturbing topics.

This episode is on the 1974 novel, Carrie, and has content warnings for domestic abuse, bullying and body shaming, allusions to sexual assault and rape, racism, abortion, animal cruelty and death, and murder.

The Howdy, friends and neighbors, and welcome to Just King Things, the podcast where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order.

I'm Michael Lutz, and with me as my co-host, Cameron Cunzelman.

I'm killing you with my mind, Michael.

This is what being killed with a mind sounds like.

This is what killing with a mind sounds like, because on this episode, where are we talking about?

We are talking about Carrie.

Stephen King's first published novel, published in 76.

Mm-hmm, but written earlier, right?

Written, I think, like, a year or two before then.

Like 74, 75.

Oh, no, no, no.

It's published in 74.

Okay.

So, 1974, his first published novel.

And this is the first episode of the show.

Fittingly enough, right?

For the podcast where we read the books of Stephen King in publication order, we're reading the first book. And that is what this show is about. If you're just joining us, either at our premiere or in the future, we're just going to read these books

one after another for the next 10 years or so, and we're going to discuss them.

Is there anything else, I think, maybe that needs to be factored in for that premise?

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