Episode 118-The Library Policeman
Stephen Kingcast
Constant Reader
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King. |
| 0:05.0 | Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication, |
| 0:10.0 | and with this particular episode, it is the third episode I am devoting to the actual texts within the collection four past midnight. |
| 0:22.1 | So if you are just tuning into this, |
| 0:25.2 | please note that I have already released a review |
| 0:29.6 | for the first story in the collection, Langoliers, |
| 0:33.4 | a review of the ABC TV miniseries, |
| 0:37.4 | the Langaleers, a review for Secret Window, mini-series, the Languiliers, |
| 0:39.1 | a review for Secret Window, Secret Garden, |
| 0:41.6 | which is the second collection, second story in the collection, |
| 0:44.8 | along with the Secret Window review, |
| 0:48.4 | which was a movie starring Johnny Depp based on Secret Window, Secret Garden. |
| 0:52.1 | Which takes us to the third novella in this collection, |
| 0:57.9 | The Library Policeman. |
| 1:00.2 | Now, this is a story that I don't have a memory of. |
| 1:06.6 | I've only read it once before, |
| 1:08.6 | and I remembered that there was an insect creature. |
| 1:12.4 | Now, in the introduction, King revealed that the library policeman sprung up from his son Owen, |
| 1:18.5 | who was afraid to go to the library for fear of the library police. |
| 1:22.9 | King drew upon his own relationship with the library police to fully realize the novella, which |
| 1:28.3 | was ran around the time of Christine because as he started to write this, Christine, |
| 1:33.2 | Kastrine, as he started to write this, Christine wound up coming out. Now before I get any further, |
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