Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
"This book is not only essential as a study of Stephen King and his works adapted to the big and small screen; it is also an exemplary study of the evolution of the horror genre in its ebb and flow from literary adaptation to gore-laden saturation and beyond since the mid-1970s. Brown has done extraordinary work synthesizing cultural mood, generic tastes and trends, production problems, script rewrites, and, most crucially, the branding of Stephen King himself as profound influences on the studied texts and their critical reception. I can think of no other book on King that takes this unique approach and achieves this synthesis as successfully as this one."
Philip L. Simpson
"This book’s primary strength is its accessibility to both the scholarly and the general reader. In an original and intuitively satisfying manner, it gathers together the unruly mess of King adaptations into one coherent package and places it within the sociocultural and industrial context of four decades of horror. This reframing of otherwise familiar material makes the work a valuable contribution to the study of King."
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
"This book is not only essential as a study of Stephen King and his works adapted to the big and small screen; it is also an exemplary study of the evolution of the horror genre in its ebb and flow from literary adaptation to gore-laden saturation and beyond since the mid-1970s. Brown has done extraordinary work synthesizing cultural mood, generic tastes and trends, production problems, script rewrites, and, most crucially, the branding of Stephen King himself as profound influences on the studied texts and their critical reception. I can think of no other book on King that takes this unique approach and achieves this synthesis as successfully as this one."
