Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication,

and this week I am reviewing the much-beloved 80s classic of horror anthology.

The throwback to EC Comics collections, which had starred such memorable characters

slash hosts, such as the Cryptkeeper, the Witch, and the Vaultkeeper.

And with this movie, a collaboration of two horror icons, the two visionaries attempt to give

the world their own version of this ghoulish storyteller in a little film called Creep Show.

As you've probably wondered, and many have

asked, the fact that I haven't reviewed Creep Show is a huge blind spot for this podcast.

It's a blind spot that I completely own up to, but it's one that I hope to rectify with this

episode. So what's the deal with Creep Show? Why was it a thing and how does it hold up?

Well, the reason people talk about Creep Show first and foremost is that it's the first collaboration between Stephen King and Night of the Living Dead's Autour, George Romero.

Romero will later go on to direct Stephen King's The Dark Half, starring Tim Hutton, but here is the more popular and better-known

collaboration. The fact that these two horror giants collaborated, it's worth noting. It's such an

important milestone in cinema history, and I applaud that they opted for an anthology movie rather

than a straightforward narrative. It makes for such a different and rich theatrical experience.

But I think that when people think of creep show, they think of the concept of creep show,

meaning the creep and the comic book quality of it.

Nowadays, comic book movies are the highest grossing genre of movies.

They're ubiquitous.

But as ubiquitous as they are, they only represent the super-heroic side of comic books.

Once upon a time, the best-selling comic books weren't about superheroes at all.

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