You are now listening to post-mortem with Mick Harris,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts, literally.

To the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garris.

I'm Mick Garris and from Nice Guy Productions, world headquarters overlooking the glamorous San Fernando

Valley, this is post-mortem.

Stephen King is his own genre and he is ubiquitous.

If there is a network or studio without a king adaptation in the works, well, there must be something wrong with them.

Currently, an upcoming, we have two-its, a couple of pet cemeteries, a remake of the stand, the outsider creep show Castle Rock,

the long walk, Mr. Mercedes in the tall grass, and Dr. Sleep.

It's a world I've spent a lot of my life in personally and professionally. Dr.

It's a world I've spent a lot of my life in, personally, and there is good reason for this

renaissance in King's work.

He is one of the best storytellers America has ever known. But today we are here to discuss just a small

slice of King's creative world. The land where the Overlook Hotel rises above all

else and well-meaning family man and would-be author Jack Torrance descends

into a maelstrom of madness. The Shining.

The book came out in 1978 and was followed in 1980 by Stanley Kubrick's adaptation.

King, famously not happy with the film, got the opportunity to Hugh closer to his work

when he wrote and produced a six-hour miniseries that I directed in 1997.

In 2013, King returned to the overlook in his sequel novel, Dr Sleep, which tells us about an adult Danny Torrance after a life

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