Stephen King's "The Cannibals"

[Kenwood]

I just finished the last half of "Just After Sunset" the other day (read the first half as soon as it came out), and read in the author's note that he'd lost the manuscript for "The Cannibals." After, I was talking to someone about how it would be cool to find something like that, you know. Well, guess King found this one after all...

Anyone read it yet?

http://www.stephenking.com/library/unpublished/cannibals_the.html

[Brian Sammons]

Nope, never heard of it till now. Thanks for the heads up. I look forward to giving it a read, but at a quick glace I like the yellowed paper and the handwritten corrections. Looks like he just scanned in his old pages which somehow makes the whole thing cooler.

[Kenwood]

Yeah, it's the original draft, recently found in a locked cabinet, I guess.

[andrewkempster]

I've just printed off the first 30 pages. Gonna read some before sleep. Will post up my thoughts.

Ken, what did you think of Sunset, mate?

[Tall Tyrion]

Nice! Thanks for the head's up...

[Kenwood]

I've just printed off the first 30 pages. Gonna read some before sleep. Will post up my thoughts.

Ken, what did you think of Sunset, mate?

Loved it. It's King facing his mortality. Not horror, but great stuff.

[Tall Tyrion]

I think there was plenty of horror in there, but I get where you are coming from. King is a great storyteller. He could write in any genre and it would be good.

[andrewkempster]

I agree. Sunset bombed with a lot of people because there wasn't a lot of horror going on, not of the blood and guts kind anyway. Unfortunately, King has been branded as horror, and when he doesn't write it people say he's losing his edge, he's run out of ideas, blah blah blah.

I suggest anyone who hasn't read 'On Writing' should. It's the closest thing I think most people will get to actually speaking to the guy. It's an amazing piece of work.

As far as 'Cannibals' goes, so far so good. Halfway through at the moment. However.........anybody here familiar with the significance of '19' in King's stories? Already spotting a few.

[Tall Tyrion]

Cool. That's a possible Dark Tower tie-in then. That was the period where King was hinting at DT in a lot of books, but not writing any more for the series. It was very frustrating.

And while I love it when King does straight horror, I'm not put off when he doesn't. Let the man write what he wants to.

[andrewkempster]

What's really cool (in a geeky kinda way) is that the pages are really high quality scans, and King has edited the pages by hand afterwards with a pen, sooooo you can see how he edits his stuff. It's pretty cool (in my opinion anyway!) - I'm finding myself trying to work out what words he's scribbled out, and then figuring out why.

Ah man, my life is so full of excitement I could shit.

[andrewkempster]

I've just printed off the first 30 pages. Gonna read some before sleep. Will post up my thoughts.

Ken, what did you think of Sunset, mate?

Loved it. It's King facing his mortality. Not horror, but great stuff.

I was on the road a lot when I bought this book, so got hold of the audiobook too - really excellent stuff. 'The Things They Left Behind' was outstanding.

People need to realise that the man isn't just confined to blood 'n' guts.

[Kenwood]

What's really cool (in a geeky kinda way) is that the pages are really high quality scans, and King has edited the pages by hand afterwards with a pen, sooooo you can see how he edits his stuff. It's pretty cool (in my opinion anyway!) - I'm finding myself trying to work out what words he's scribbled out, and then figuring out why.

Ah man, my life is so full of excitement I could shit.

Ah, you need to spend more time here. Haha.

[andrewkempster]

Just read that they're gonna try and post another sixty pages of this by the end of the week - I haven't finished the first lot yet. Damn you, World War Z.