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

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And this week I am tackling episode two of season two's Castle Rock, which you can stream exclusively on Hulu.

But before I get into that, I'm going to read some listener email.

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Okay, up first.

Congratulations.

This is from Miles.

Congratulations.

Thank you on predicting, slashing, encouraging the current King Renaissance.

I've been binging your podcast for the last two weeks, and have gotten to 2015's Needful Things episode.

You successfully predicted the Castle Rock TV show and your linking of It and Ambulent Entertainment Aesthetics,

which preceded not only the It movie, but Stranger Things as well.

Like you and many others, I discovered King in middle school and dominated my reading and

shaped my entertainment tastes totally until my mid-20s.

The first adult book I read was The Shining, after the Amityville Horror, was at 12.

Because they were the only two books on my grandmother's bookshelf that weren't Baudas Rippers.

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