King's 11/22/63 is one of his best books, following a young teacher as he gives up years of his life to try to change the world by preventing the Kennedy assassination with the help of an ailing diner owner who just so happens to have a wormhole in his back pantry. It's a tale of unintended consequences (both good and bad) and an example of King at the top of his game.

Obsession rules. It's the latest horror sensation to take over the box office and has the genre community abuzz with how good it is. So naturally we had to get two of the stars on the show to talk about their cool ass movie and their favorite Stephen King things.So, we're joined by Michael Johnston and Cooper Tomlinson and topics include their Stephen King origin stories, which King movie adaptations have influenced their work, and so much more. You will get talk about Stand By Me, The Shining, 11/22/63, Mike Flanagan, Pennywise, and even a little more Revival peer pressure from the Kingcast boys.Obsession is out now in a theater near you!

University of Maine Professor (and the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, by the way) Caroline Bicks spent a year combing through King's original manuscripts at his own personal archive and that resulted in an essential book for King obsessives: Monsters In The Archives that gives us new insights into King's process and illuminates paths not taken on some of his most iconic stories, like The Shining, Pet Sematary, Carrie, Night Shift, and 'Salem's Lot.These bonus episodes are usually exclusive to The Kingcast Patreon, so if you want more of this make sure to sign up over at www.patreon.com/thekingcast.Also make sure to order your copy of Monsters in the Archives at your local bookstore or at www.carolinebicks.com. 

How far would you go to protect your family and friends? This is a question at the center of Joe Hill's King Sorrow, a cautionary tale of who you make deals with and to always read the fine print.

The Dead Zone is an early and much-loved King book about a school teacher who awakens from a coma and discovers he has the ability to see the past and future of people he meets via simple touch. David Cronenberg's film is methodic and tragic with one hell of a cast, from Christopher Walken to Martin Sheen.

William Sadler has been in some of the best Stephen King adaptations, including the Frank Darabont Trifecta of The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist and now he's on The Kingcast to discuss all that plus detours to his starring role in Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight, his oddly nude bad guy in Die Hard 2, Death in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, and his latest film, a tongue-in-cheek genre flick called The Yeti, which is out on digital April 10th.Sadler is one of our best character actors and has some great stories to tell about his time working in the business. Plus we find out he has a secret Stephen King performance that we never knew about!

I hope you brought your sad tissues with you today because this episode gets emotional real dang quickly. Our guest is Wil Wheaton who is returning to The Kingcast to talk about all things Stand By Me and The Body as Rob Reiner's film celebrates its 40th anniversary and Wil steps behind the mic and into adult Gordy LaChance's shoes as he narrates a new audiobook of Stephen King's novella, The Body.We recorded this just two days after Wheaton appeared on stage at the Oscars for Rob Reiner's memorial and let's just say the emotions are still running strongly, but luckily for us Wil is very open about what he's feeling and what Rob meant to him as an artist and a father figure, the man who Wil believes was the first person to actually show him unconditional love and support as a young man.So jump in as Wil recounts some stories from the making of the iconic movie and gives us insight into the process of revisiting this classic 40 years later where he, not Richard Dreyfuss, gets to lead us through it.As a special bonus, Simon & Schuster have given us a preview of Wil Wheaton's reading of The Body, which is available for purchase now wherever you get your audiobooks. Make sure to stay to the end of the interview to hear a piece of Wheaton's narration.Copyright © 1982 by Stephen King. Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from the audiobook The Body, read by Wil Wheaton, published by Simon & Schuster Audio, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes contains a whopping 24 short stories that range from melancholy observations of the fleeting nature of time to a secret society of bat people that rule all the world's governments. King dips his toes into Romero Zombie territory in this book, hardboiled crime fiction, a Sherlock Holmes tale, and one of his best: a loving homage to HP Lovecraft.

The Dark Half is a story about an author battling his pseudonym (literally) and the behind the scenes of King's process while writing this story reveals that perhaps the author wasn't fully finished with his own alter ego, Richard Bachman, either.

Throttle is Joe Hill and Stephen King's homage to Richard Matheson's Duel, but with some Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad thrown in for good measure. What happens when a biker gang is attacked on the open road by a killer truck driver? That's the question in front of this tale about a heavily dysfunctional father and son have to try to survive this ordeal which they may or may not have unknowingly instigated.