Stephen King

‘Life Is A Wheel… It Always Comes Back Around To Where It Started’: Stephen King’s Life in Books

Stephen King has thrilled readers for more than four decades with a body of work that effortlessly combines scintillating fear and some very uniquely memorable characters. King, who recently turned 70, is as unique and memorable as his characters and has lead a life that is just as interesting as…

Maggie MeyersOctober 16, 2017

Fiction

Horrifying Reads to Get You Ready for American Horror Story Season 6

It's no secret around the office that I’m a huge fan of FX's American Horror Story (AHS). I even had the once-in-a-lifetime experience of walking around the set of "Coven: Season 3", meeting the writers and watching the actors film for six hours. Anyways, enough about me. As we all know, fall…

Mercedes ReinerSeptember 13, 2016

Fiction

Grady Hendrix on ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ and Why Horror Is a Women’s Genre

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. Grady Hendrix, author of Horrorstör and My Best Friend’s Exorcism, is a die-hard horror fan. He writes, reads, and researches the genre and is an expert on its history. His new book, Paperbacks from Hell—about the paperback horror boom in the ’70s and ’80s—is…

BookishNovember 1, 2017

Fiction

Four Stephen King Characters We Want in Hulu’s Castle Rock from J.J. Abrams

Nerds everywhere rejoice! Stephen King and J.J. Abrams are working on a new project together: Castle Rock. We'll just repeat that so it sinks in: STEPHEN KING AND J.J. ABRAMS ARE WORKING ON A NEW PROJECT TOGETHER. And we've clearly been freaking out! It's like sci-fi Thanksgiving and horror Christmas…

Rachel CarterMarch 3, 2017

Fiction

Usher in Fall with BookTrib’s Top 10 New Releases for September

It’s starting to feel like fall outside, with colder nights, pumpkin spice creeping onto the shelves, and leaves that are slowly changing colors. It makes us want to curl up with a hot cup of cider – and, of course, a good book! Autumn always brings a ton of great…

Rachel CarterSeptember 5, 2017

BooksToScreen Fiction

Early Bird Books: 8 Notable Books That Inspired Memorable Movies

Books and movies have a relationship that’s as old as Hollywood itself. Together, writers and filmmakers have given us everything from great adaptations to huge disappointments, and some truly weird interpretations in between. But that comes with the territory of turning our favorite words into live action pieces of cinema.…

Early Bird BooksNovember 7, 2017

Fiction

8 Dark Novellas to Read During National Novella Month

Let us sing in praise of the novella — that literary gray area between short stories and full-blown novels. Depending on who you turn to as an authority, we’re talking about books somewhere in the neighborhood of 17,000 to 40,000 words in length. But there are also some subtleties at…

Jane HandaJune 10, 2020

Fiction

5 Books to Get You Hyped for the Return of The X-Files

The truth is still out there, The X-Files fans! If you’ve been living under a rock since 1993, it’s a show about FBI agents who investigate unexplainable occurrences like supernatural murders, spooky mutant monsters and alien abductions. It’s one of the longest-running science fiction series in TV history, and features…

Katie HiresJanuary 22, 2016

Fiction

4 Fictional Cities We Wish Existed in the Real World

Sometimes when we find ourselves so enveloped in a TV show or book, we often imagine what it would be like to be a resident of the fictional hometown or city. Not only do we want to live in the town, but we'd obviously want to check out the local…

BookTrib Guest AuthorSeptember 14, 2015

Fiction

10 Books Inspired by Television’s New Fall Season

Next week, fall premieres begin! All our favorite shows will return for yet another season of laughs, drama, unexpected cliffhangers and celebrity guest appearances. We are so excited that most of the shows we love are returning. Some of our favorite new shows from last year return for their sophomore…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaSeptember 22, 2017

BooksToScreen Fiction

Hemingway to Capote: Watching Our Favorite Writers Come to Life On-Screen

Writers have a long history of showing up as characters in films. Sometimes those writers are real people interacting with history (like Hemingway!), and sometimes they’re made up characters, showing us exactly how Hollywood imagines the concept of the writer. Regardless, these writers usually have certain traits in common: they’re…

Rachel CarterMay 22, 2017

Fiction

Colleagues in crime: Our favorite crime, mystery and horror novels

We love getting our fright on for Halloween here at BookTrib headquarters. It’s no exaggeration to say that hundreds of books cross our path each year, but when it comes to crime, mystery and horror we have our favorites. So grab a bowl of candy corn and pull up a…

BookTrib Nerd SquadOctober 30, 2014

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured Thrillers

Plan Your Next Spooky Movie Night with the Top Stephen King Films

It's September 22nd, and fall enthusiasts know what that means --- it's time to start decorating for fall, baking apple and pumpkin goodies and, of course, reading scary books and watching scary movies. But if you're feeling a little stumped about which scary movie to watch first, USDish may have a…

Mckenzie TozanSeptember 22, 2022

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Are You Kidding Me? 9 Thrillers About Children Gone Wrong

There’s no question that in the pantheon of COVID heroes, parents deserve a seat at the top. All of those moms and dads who once relied on eight-hour-a-day schools or eight-hour-a-day camps to take their darlings away, even briefly. To be forced into the present day proximity and relentless home…

Hank Phillippi RyanJuly 2, 2020

Audiobooks Listicles Listicles - Featured

Listen to the 10 Best Audiobooks September Has to Offer

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best audiobooks just for BookTrib's readers. Let your last days of summer, the first days of fall and the beginning of spooky season be filled with these multi-genre recommendations! This story appears through BookTrib's partnership with AudioFile and contains material originating…