There is a great interview with Dark Forces editor, Kirby McCauley in the books 25th Anniversary Edition. Dark Forces is now available as an ebook, and that means you can get it for your Amazon Kindle.
McCauley shares several things in the interview that are of interest to constant readers. For instance, Kealan Patrick Burke (who is conducting the interview) notes that McCauley is credited as an executive producer on John Carpenter's screen adaptation of Christine. How did that happen? Well McCauley calls it Stephen King's "kindness." Richard Korbitz was the primary producer. Besides, McCauley notes, John Carpenter "pretty much does what he wants." What does he think of the final result? "I wouldn’t say it’s one of the best King films, but it’s a pretty good one."
The real gem in Dark Forces is Stephen King's offering of The Mist. McCauley calls The mist a superb story, one of the best horror novella's he's ever read!
Kealan Patrick Burke says that the Mist is the perfect length. McCauley agrees, saying, "Henry James called it the 'beautiful and blest nouvelle', and that’s what The Turn of the Screw is. It’s a very good length. The Mist truly helped the anthology in every way too, both in quality and in terms of public success, so I am deeply grateful for Stephen’s generosity."
This is a great interview, and quite lengthy.
