Hello,

When the night has come, and the land is dark, and the land is dark.

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.

This week, I turned my attention in the movies, specifically

1986's classic coming-of-age tale, Stand by Me, based on the novella The Body, found within the collection different seasons.

Now, different seasons was published in 1982, and from its pages, three movies were adapted.

Two of these three adaptations are considered classics, and not just classics, but good films, capital G, capital F.

These adaptations, of course, are the Shawshake Redemption, and Stand By Me.

Now let's look at 1986, the time of the movie's release.

Let's look at the year and see if we can contextualize what Stephen King means to the world at this point.

By the end of the year, he will have published 22 books. we can contextualize what Stephen King means to the world at this point.

By the end of the year, he will have published 22 books.

Of those 22 books, 11 have been adapted.

This is Stephen King firmly entrenched as a pop culture icon, a tour de force, if you will.

So Stephen King is a phenomenon, the brand, the most popular author of his time.

He's making reading fun for all ages and is known by this point as the master of horror.

And then Rob Reiner released Stand By Me, and the image that the general audience had of Stephen King, that of the lurking monster who gnawed on the bones of children, was instantly challenged.

Because how could Stephen King?

The man responsible for the image of the blood-drenched Carrie White, the alcoholic abusive father in the shining, who killed off half the human race in the stand, who killed that boy in Kujo.

How could that man be responsible

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