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Stephen King Cast

Episode Fifty Eight-The Library Policeman

Stephen King Cast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Books, Arts, Arts:books

4.7665 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I examine The Library Policeman, the third entry in Stephen King's 1990 novella collection, Four Past Midnight.

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0:00.0

This case has been turned over to our library investigations officer, Mr. Bookman.

0:04.0

Bookman?

0:05.0

The library investigator's name is actually Bookman.

0:09.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast.

0:13.0

One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:15.0

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the Chronological Order of Publication.

0:20.0

And with this particular episode,

0:21.7

it is the third episode I am devoting to the actual texts within the collection four past midnight.

0:31.8

So if you are just tuning into this, please note that I have already released a review for the

0:40.5

first story in the collection, Langoliers, a review of the ABC TV miniseries, the Langleyers,

0:48.5

a review for Secret Window, Secret Garden, which is the second collection, second story in the

0:53.8

collection, along with the Secret Window Secret Garden, which is the second collection, second story in the collection, along with

0:55.6

the Secret Window review, which was a movie starring Johnny Depp based on Secret Window,

1:00.8

Secret Garden.

1:01.9

Which takes us to the third novella in this collection, The Library Policeman.

1:10.0

Now, this is a story that I don't have a memory of.

1:16.3

I've only read it once before, and I remembered that there was an insect creature.

1:22.1

Now, in the introduction, King revealed that the library policeman sprung up from his son Owen, who was afraid to go to the

1:29.6

library for fear of the library police. King drew upon his own relationship with the library

1:35.3

police to fully realize the novella, which was ran around the time of Christine because as he

1:41.1

started to write this, Christine, Christine woundrine, as he started to write this,

1:45.3

Christine wound up coming out.

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