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 I just want to give everyone a note on this particular episode that you

are about to listen to. I am currently recording this introduction in January of 2026 and I want to contextualize what you are about to listen to. I am currently recording this introduction in January of 2026, and I want to

contextualize what you are about to listen to within the greater catalog of this podcast. So

I'm recently been reordering the podcasts, the order in which the podcasts flow if you start

from the beginning and make your way towards the end.

On the onset of the Stephen King cast when it was first launch in 2014, it is, as I just said, a review of Stephen King's works in the chronological order of publication.

And I eventually did that.

But I wanted to keep the podcast going. I liked being able to talk

about Stephen King and eventually what I started to do in, let's see, in about 2020, I believe that

it was. Yeah, so February 21st, 2020, this episode that you're about to listen to first came out.

And what this episode began was an examination on the endings of Stephen King's novels.

Because there have long been complaints about Stephen King's, what's called an inability for him to end his novels.

And I thought about that a lot. And so I just wanted to really start to see what that looked like if we actually took a critical lens to the endings of Stephen King.

So what you get here is a deep dive into the conclusion of Kerry and how effective Stephen King is at being able to wrap up the events, the characters, the themes, and the conflicts of Carrie within the greater context of this particular book.

So when you start making your way through the podcast, you are going to, for instance,

if you're starting at Carrie and you listen to the podcast in which I review,

carry the book, then carry the Brian De Palma and the 2013 movie reviews, then the TV

movie, then we get to the ending of Kerry.

The next review will be Salem's Lot.

Then you will get Salem's Lot, the TV movie, then Salem's Lot, 24, then the ending of Salem's's lot but everything is organized based on the publication of the book and

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