Lovecraft names like Yogsoggoth, R’Yeleh, and Nrtesn Nyarlahotep. How’s his reading? It doesn’t get much more impressive than confidently verbalizing H.P. Narrated: “Crouch End” and “The Doctor’s Case” from Nightmares & Dreamscapes (’93). King résumé: Achieved horror-legend status as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in 1990’s It miniseries on ABC. As such, here’s our guide to some of the best actors to narrate Stephen King audiobooks. Multiverse, it’s a fascinating ball of yarn to unravel. As you might expect, a lot of the actors are veterans of King’s work you’ve got options like Sissy Spacek reading Carrie, a Thinner actor doing Thinner, and the 1993 superstar-fest Nightmares & Dreamscapes, 23 stories told by a starry lineup that includes a half dozen King alums.įor the Constant Reader programmed to find and embrace all strands of the S.K. The audiobook branch of the Kingverse is as vastly populated and cozily intermingled as the rest of his output, with hardly any entries left unrecorded - and plenty of his books are narrated by actors of note.

The innumerable film and series adaptations, optioned and remade at an astonishing pace, are always conversing with themselves: Young Ben from the 1990 It cameos in the 2019 movie, the Pet Sematary remake flip-flops its child-deaths, Sissy Spacek stars in Castle Rock, and so forth. King’s 60-plus novels and ten long collections of short fiction reflect and refract, connect to, and illuminate each other.

“People love big shared universes,” his author son Joe Hill told USA Today, “and have tapped into the idea that Dad’s universe is as big as the Marvel universe, but it’s like for grown-ups.”

The Stephen King Multiverse has, deep into the author’s fifth decade of publishing, seized more cultural real estate than ever before.

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