NEWS - LILJA'S LIBRARY: THE WORLD OF STEPHEN KING

Special offer for Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King

Posted: June 18, 2010, 15:56
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Glenn Chadbourne (who's illustrated Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King) has created an exclusive card for The Overlook Connection that is signed by me and Glenn. Overlook offers this card FREE if you buy the book from them but they only have a limited number to offer so head over to them now if you want one.

A preview of my book

Posted: April 22, 2010, 00:16
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The facebook launch of Lilja’s Library yesterday is officially a success. In the last 24 hours more than 300 of you have joined and the numbers are growing as we speak. I also want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your nice comments and kind posts about Lilja’s Library since I haven’t had the chance to do it personally.

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Less then 5 copies left

Posted: March 10, 2010, 23:49
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Cemetery Dance will soon let everyone know the release date for my book but they told me today that there are less then 5 of the 52 copies of the lettered edition left so if you are planning on getting one of those, don't wait to long. You can order here.


"...a must have for the Constant Reader."— Fangoria #236 (Book of the Month)

A quote from Frank

Posted: February 1, 2010, 23:03
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Here is something that I just had to share with you all. This is what Frank Darabont, screenwriter and director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist had to say about my book after he read it:

"Hans-Ake Lilja, the most dedicated Stephen King fan I know, takes the reader on a joyous, wide-ranging journey through King’s world and influence. Part scholarly in its approach, but in greater part a fan's love letter to King, it is an absolute must for the Stephen King completist."

Lilja's Library in Rue Morgue

Posted: January 2, 2010, 22:30
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Click for a larger imageIn issue #96 of Rue Morgue there is a review of my upcoming book. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a copy yet so if anyone has one and could scan the review for me, please mail me
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Book of the month

Posted: December 18, 2009, 23:45
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Click for a larger imageIn the new issue of Fangoria (issue #289) you can find King's essay called What’s Scary but what I didn't know until tonight is that in that very same issue Fangoria selects my upcoming book, Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King as their "Book of the Month". How about that?

A new review and quote

Posted: November 6, 2009, 22:10
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Charnel House has posted a very positive review of my upcoming book by George Beahm. You can check it out here.

New quote

Posted: November 6, 2009, 07:49
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Here is a new quote for my book the other day, this time from Stephen Spignes, author of several boos about King.

"Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King" is a major labor of love that is a treasure trove for King fans and in a category all its own. Lilja's combination of knowledge about King, his passion for King's work, and his writing and editing talents make for a magnificent tome that is a must-read for King lovers. It seems like Lilja has talked to everyone, and reviewed everything, and having all his interviews, articles, and reviews in one place is a goldmine for Constant Readers. M-O-O-N spells "Lilja" and we all owe our friend across the pond roaring thanks for this terrific book.

Stephen Spignesi

Delay and review for LL

Posted: November 2, 2009, 16:33
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My book was planned for a November release but will be pushed forward to early 2010. The reason for this is that we sent out review copies to people hoping for quotes to use on the book and getting responses on that has been taking much longer than we expected. However both CD and I felt that it was worth waiting for even if it means the book will be delayed a few months.

With that said I'm also happy to chare this review of the book with you.

My first quote for the book

Posted: September 29, 2009, 09:10
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Cemetery Dance sent a copy of my book (a galley) to Peter Straub and he in return sent me this very kind quote that I just had to share with you all:

"Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King is like beautifully prepared and presented red meat to any admirer of Stephen King. Mr. Lilja has tracked down his many quarries and used them to create this massive treatment of King's work and his world. His book is pure testimony to the love Stephen King is capable of arousing in his readers."
— Peter Straub, co-author of The Talisman and Black House

Well, what can I say? I’m a very happy boy today!

The Galley

Posted: August 28, 2009, 21:40
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Click for a larger imageThe galley's of my book has reached Sweden and here are a couple of new photos of it.

Order Lilja...

Posted: August 7, 2009, 20:49
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There's a spanish online store dedicated to Stephen King. It's called Restaurant De La Mente and there you can find for sale books, signed editions, magazines, comics, merchandising and more!

Starting today, the store is taking orders for Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King and due to all the payment options available, even those who don't own a credit card can secure a copy!

Check them out at here.

Horror Mall

Posted: May 6, 2009, 13:37
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Horror Mall is selling my book now for a discounted price if anyone is interested.

Thanks to Mario De Luca

Ask Lilja

Posted: April 22, 2009, 15:10
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I'll be giving an interview for Veryfinebooks soon and if you want, you can be part of it by submitting your own question for me to answer here.

Lilja up for grabs...

Posted: April 20, 2009, 23:56
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It looks like the cover for my book really appealed to people. Cemetery Dance has received several offers to buy the original artwork for private collections so they have now decided to put the front and (never-before-seen) back cover up for auction.

Here is all the info you need:

Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King
2 Pieces of Original Color Artwork Up For Bidding NOW!
Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne Fans Take Note! RARE Collectibles!


We received a lot of positive emails about Glenn Chadbourne's stunning cover artwork for Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King, including several offers to buy the original artwork for private collections. We spoke with Glenn about these offers and he asked us to auction off the FRONT COVER and the never-before-seen BACK COVER artwork on his behalf. View these two beautiful full-color pieces below:

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*** HOW WE'RE SELLING THESE:
We'll be taking offers on behalf of the artist, Glenn Chadbourne, and selling to the highest bidder for each piece. We will be processing the sale either via PayPal or Credit Card and shipping these copies for our customers via UPS for US addresses, so they will be packed well and insured for the amount paid. No checks or money orders can be accepted for this special offer. Customers outside the US will be shipped via USPS at their own risk.

*** HOW TO MAKE YOUR OFFER:
You may bid on the front OR the back cover OR both, but please be clear which one your offer is for.

Please email Mindy Jarusek at info@cemeterydance.com with your BEST OFFER as soon as possible if you're interested because this offer ends in just 72 hours. Serious bids only. The minimum bid for these is $199 per piece, but considering that full-color Glenn Chadbourne artwork often sells for up to $500, these would be a steal at that price, especially given the Stephen King subject matter!

Please put "LILJA'S LIBRARY Best Offer" in your subject line so these offers can be properly processed.

* The body of your email should include:
Your Name
Your Address
Your very best offer for the FRONT cover artwork
Your very best offer for the BACK cover artwork

Please send the final amount you are willing to offer for these copies. The deadline for this "best offer" is THIS WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2009 at 5 PM EST. The winner for each cover will be notified via email after the offers have been reviewed on Thursday. Your best offer is a binding agreement to purchase a copy at that price.

REMEMBER, if you make the best offer for one of these, you're getting the ORIGINAL artwork! No one else in the world will have what you have!

If you have any questions before you bid, please email Mindy and she'll help you out. As always, thanks for your continuing support!

Table of Contents and praise

Posted: April 19, 2009, 14:25
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Table of Contents:
Introduction by Bev Vincent
An Original Interview with Lilja

Interviews
Section 1—Two Interviews With Stephen King

Section 2—Other Interviews
Tyson Blue
James Cole
Jay Holben
James Gonis
Stephen Spignesi
Peter Straub
Michael Piller
Ridley Pearson
Mick Garris
Michael Collings
Kristen Dalton
George Guidall
Richard Dooling
Ed Begley, Jr.
Marsha DeFilippo
Michael Whelan
Stewart O'Nan
Glenn Chadbourne
Robin Furth
Mikael Håfström
Mick Garris
Brandon Kihl
Steven Weber
Mark Stutzman
Mikael Håfström
Frank Darabont
Joe Quesada
Ralph Macchio
Robin Furth
Richard Isanove
Peter David
Philippa Pride
Jae Lee
Gregory Nicotero
Frank Darabont
Frank Darabont
Marsha DeFilippo
Glenn Chadbourne

Book Reviews
Section 1—Books by King

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Dreamcatcher
Secret Window, Secret Garden (audio)
Pet Sematary (audio)
LT's Theory of Pets (audio)
Black House
Everything's Eventual
Everything's Eventual (audio)
Riding the Bullet (audio)
The Wavedancer Benefi t (audio)
From a Buick 8
From a Buick 8 (audio)
The Man in the Black Suit (audio)
'Salem's Lot (audio)
The Devil's Wine
Building Bridges (audio)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (popup)
Faithful
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
'Salem's Lot—Limited Edition
Carrie (audio)
The Things They Left Behind
The Shining (audio)
The Colorado Kid
'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition
The Colorado Kid (audio)
Bag of Bones (audio)
Cell
Stationary Bike (audio)
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished
Lisey's Story
The Secretary of Dreams, Volume 1
Graduation Afternoon
Blaze
The Gingerbread Girl
Ayana
Mute
Duma Key

Section 2: The Dark Tower
The Gunslinger—Revised Edition
The Dark Tower—Concordance, Volume 1
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (audio)
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (audio)
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (audio)
The Road to The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower—Concordance, Volume 2
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Gunslinger Born #1
The Gunslinger Born #2
The Gunslinger Born #3
The Gunslinger Born #4
The Gunslinger Born #5
The Gunslinger Born #6
The Gunslinger Born #7
The Gunslinger's Guidebook
The Gunslinger Born (omnibus)
The Long Road Home #1
The Long Road Home #2
The Long Road Home #3
The Long Road Home #4
The Long Road Home #5
Dark Tower: End-World Almanac

Section 3: Books About King
The Essential Stephen King
Stephen King Universe
Revisiting Stephen King
Horror Plum'd
The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King
The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King (2nd Edition)
The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King (3rd Edition)
The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book
The Stephen King Collector's Guide

Section 4: The Movies
Walking The Mile—The Making Of "The Green Mile"
Creepshow: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
Dreamcatcher—The Shooting Script
Hollywood's Stephen King
The Journals of Eleanor Druse

Section 5: Other Reviews
Walpuski's Typewriter
The Night Country
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Assassination Vacation
Blue November Storms
Masters of Horror 1-6
Masters of Horror 7-10
Masters of Horror 11-13
Heart-Shaped Box
Development Hell

Movie Reviews
Section 1: Television

Rose Red
Carrie (remake)
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital—The Pilot
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital—Death's Kingdom
'Salem's Lot (remake)
Riding the Bullet
Desperation
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Episodes 1 & 2
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Episodes 3 & 4
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Episodes 5 & 6
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Episodes 7 & 8

Section 2: The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone—Pilot
The Dead Zone—The 1st Half of Season 1
The Dead Zone—The 2nd Half of Season 1
The Dead Zone (DVD)
The Dead Zone—The 1st Half of Season 2
The Dead Zone—The 2nd Half of Season 2
The Dead Zone—Season 1 (DVD)
The Dead Zone—Season 2½
The Dead Zone—The Original Pilot
The Dead Zone—Season 3
The Dead Zone—Season 3 (DVD)
The Dead Zone—Season 4
A Very Dead Zone Christmas
The Dead Zone—Season 5 Premier
The Dead Zone—Season 5, Episode 2
The Dead Zone—Season 5, Episodes 3—5
The Dead Zone—Season 5, Episode 6
The Dead Zone—Season 4 (DVD)
The Dead Zone—Season 5, Episodes 7 - 9
The Dead Zone—Season 5, Episodes 10 - 11
The Dead Zone—Season 6

Section 3: The Movies/DVDs
Rose Red (DVD)
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (DVD)
Riding the Bullet (DVD)
Quicksilver Highway (DVD)
Children of the Corn / Creepshow 2 (DVD)
Desperation (DVD)
1408
1408 (DVD)
The Mist
The Mist (DVD)

Section 4: The "Dollar Babies"
The Last Rung on the Ladder
Paranoid
The Lawnmower Man
Strawberry Spring
Rainy Season
Autopsy Room Four
The Man in the Black Suit
The Road Virus Heads North
La Femme dans la Chamber
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Umney's Last Case
Home Delivery
Popsy
I Know What You Need
El Sueño de Harvey
Suffer the Little Children

Section 5: The Scripts
Insane Clown Poppy
Hearts in Atlantis
Stud City

Section 6: Other Oddities
Territories (audio)
The Gunslinger (influenced by) (audio)
The Gunslinger / The Drawing of the Three (audio)
Christine—Collector Car
SCarrie: The Musical (audio)

Part 6: New Reviews
Here There Be Tygers
I Am The Doorway
The Gunslinger
Luckey Quarter
Boogeyman
Walking Ghost
The Secret Transit Codes of America's Highways
Night Surf
Stephen King's Gotham Café
Sorry, Right Number
Srajenie
Llamadas
Suppr.
Night of the Living Dead
The Mist (The Script)
Black House (The Script)
From a Buick 8 (The Script)
Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction

Part 7: Afterword
Lilja's Final Word


Praise for Lilja's Library, the website:
"Lilja's Library is not only the best of all the Stephen King websites now up on the web, it is one of the best of all current websites now up, being lively, informative, colorful, and wonderfully well-organized. It is a pleasure to visit Lilja's Library."
— Peter Straub, co-author of The Talisman and Black House

"A very impressive site, and by far one of the best on Stephen King! Done with great commitment, obvious passion, and reverence for its subject. It's always a pleasure to log on to Lilja's Library and see what's happening in the world of King."
— Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist

"Lilja's Library is a required surf stop for the serious King fan."
— Mick Garris, director of The Stand, The Shining and Riding the Bullet

"Everything I want to know, and more, about Stephen King-I find at Lilja's Library"
— Mikael Håfström, director of 1408

"The wealth of information and the latest news updates available on Lilja's site is amazing. Lilja possesses the same level of devotion to Stephen King as Kathy Bates from Misery, the only difference between the two is... Lilja has a computer."
— Jae Lee, illustrator of The Dark Tower comic

"Lilja's Library has emerged from among the ranks of Stephen King information sites as THE go-to place for all the latest news, reviews, interviews and rumors. If it's not bookmarked in your favorites list, it should be."
— Bev Vincent, author of The Road to the Dark Tower

"Lilja's Library is a great website packed with information"
— Robin Furth, author of The Dark Tower Concordance and The Dark Tower comic.

"Lilja's-Library is a wildly enthusiastic look at the world of Stephen King. Any King fan can certainly indulge themselves with reviews, interviews, sneak peaks and plenty of nostalgia. Stephen can ditch his day-planner as long as he has this site bookmarked."
— Mark Stutzman, cover illustrator to many of Stephen King's books

"Lilja's Library is the most comprehensive, thorough, and up-to-the-minute source for Stephen King news on the web. It's a labor of love and an invaluable resource for us SK fans."
— Richard Dooling, novelist, producer, and writer for Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

"A one-stop shop for everything King Related, Lilja's Library is the place on the net for the most in depth information for the discerning Stephen King fan—I have yet to find a website with more thorough, detailed, accurate and up-to-date information."
— Jay Holben, director of Stephen King's Paranoid.

"I've had a delightful time exploring Lilja's Library. I especially like the arrangement of materials. Everything is clearly labeled, easy to access, and well (and fully) discussed. It is certainly among the best and most comprehensive sites I've visited."
— Michael Collings, author of The Work of Stephen King and Horror Plum'd

"For a one-stop place to check out the latest King news, not just in America but worldwide, this is the only place you need to go. And the best thing about this is—in Lilja's Library, you don't need a borrower's card!"
— Tyson Blue, author of The Unseen King and Observations from the Terminator

"As New Line Cinema and film director Peter Jackson discovered, it simply makes good sense — and good business — to keep the fans online informed of what's going on; and in the Stephen King community, there are only a handful of sites worth your precious time. Lilja's Library is one of them. A die-hard King fan who has painstakingly and, over a period of many years, built up his website so that it's in the first rank of King websites, "LL" (Lilja's Library) is an essential website to surf if you REALLY want to know what's going on in Stephen's kingdom. Hard-working, responsible, and dedicated to putting out the news for a worldwide audience, Lilja is a publicist's dream: He'll get the word out and do it in a professional and timely manner. As the author of more books about Stephen King than anyone else on the planet, I've got to say that Lilja has my respect and admiration because of his efforts to keep the King community informed, and as they say, you can take THAT to the bank."
— George Beahm, author of Stephen King A to Z and Stephen King Country

"Lilja's Library is one of the best resources on the Internet for all things King. In addition to being a wonderful support for our extensive collection of Stephen King audiobooks, Lilja is an absolute pleasure to work with! I highly recommended the site for all fans of Stephen King."
— Theresa Pantazopoulos, Publicity Manager, Simon & Schuster Audio

"There some utterly definitive web sites I depend upon for their accuracy and specific focus and on my list is Lilja's Library for all things Stephen King. Lilja does an extraordinary amount of work maintaining one of the most comprehensive King sites on the Web. Lilja's Library is the kind of loving, meticulously accurate web site that King's work inspires in his fans. King fans around the world owe him enormous gratitude for keeping us all up to speed on all the goings-on in the kingdom of King."
— Stephen Spignesi, author of The Lost work of Stephen King and The Essential Stephen King

"Lilja's Library is the quintessential resource for anybody — fan or professional — seeking information on anything related to Stephen King and his multitude of books, films and television productions. If there's anything you need to know about a Stephen King project, go to Lilja's Library first!"
— Eric A. Stillwell, former Associate Producer, The Dead Zone

Available in two states:
- Trade Hardcover Edition ($40)
- Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker, each copy featuring an ORIGINAL Glenn Chadbourne drawing on the signature sheet ($250)

Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King - The Book

Posted: April 15, 2009, 16:40
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Click for a larger imageLilja's Library: The World of Stephen King
by Hans-Ake Lilja
illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne


About the Book:
For over a decade now, Lilja has been one of the leading voices on the Internet when it comes to covering and reporting on Stephen King's books and movies. His website, Lilja's Library, is the die-hard fan's source for information about new King projects and breaking news, but Lilja has also featured his own in-depth interviews with the most important people in King's world, including Stephen King himself.

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