by Jay Wilburn

The plan is to reread all of Stephen King’s works in the order that they were published. Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance had the vision. I’m doing it because I am a writer and I want to improve my fiction. And I love Stephen King. I think there is something to be learned through this process. As Richard Chizmar and Bev Vincent put up their posts on the official site, I will link those in the corresponding ones of mine on this blog, typically with the “After” posts.

You can also go back to the beginning and read Before Carrie or any of my other posts up through this one and beyond by checking out this link to the Master List of all my #StephenKingRevisited posts.

Let’s take a look …

I haven’t read Christine before now. It’s another one that has slipped through the cracks in my time as a Stephen King Constant Reader. For whatever reason, as I went back to pick up old books from his back catalog, I got a bad impression of certain ones and skipped them over. Like with Danse Macabre, I thought they were about something they weren’t. Or other books jumped out at me as much more fascinating, like The Stand or The Gunslinger.

I’ve read the books on both sides of some of these missing pieces of my Stephen King library, but not these special ones in between.

From A Buick 8 came out much later, which I haven’t read either, and I look at that one and others far up the line of books I’m itching to get to. I’ve even cut out TV, online videos, and computer games to give myself more time to read. Hopefully, I’ll grace the Earth long enough to finish.

But when Buick 8 came out, I thought, he’s rewriting Christine. But what the hell do I know about it? I haven’t read either one. It is time to remedy that terrible oversight.

I didn’t watch the movie for this one either. I thought I had, but I realize those snippets of memory are just from clips I’ve seen over the years.

This Stephen King Revisited moment is a first reading and that’s exciting to me. That’s what I’m really doing it for is all the books in between that I have missed that I would never get to without a concerted effort like this.

It’s time to read Christine.

Let’s turn this baby over and see what she can do.

The next post will be After Christine which you will find linked on the Master List of all my Stephen King Revisited posts.

— Jay Wilburn, Constant Reader – filling in the gaps

Jay Wilburn

Jay Wilburn has a Masters Degree in Education that goes mostly unused since he quit teaching to write about zombies. Jay writes horror because he tends to find the light by facing down the darkness. His is doing well following a life saving kidney transplant. Jay is the author of Maidens of Zombie Kingdom a young adult fantasy trilogy, Lake Scatter Wood Tales adventure books for elementary and middle school readers, Vampire Christ a trilogy of political and religious satire, and The Dead Song Legend. He cowrote The Enemy Held Near, Yard Full of Bones, and The Hidden Truth with Armand Rosamilia. You can also find Jay's work in Best Horror of the Year volume 5. He is a staff writer with Dark Moon Digest, LitReactor, and the Still Water Bay series with Crystal Lake Publishing.

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