It’s time for the first 30th anniversary contest. The prize is Gift Edition of The Stand donated by Cemetery Dance. Let’s start with a fairly simple question.
What year did Lilja’s Library first appear online?
Answer the question by filling out this form (no other entries will be valid so please do it right) and follow me on one or several social medias. On February 1st I’ll randomly select one of my social medias. I will then randomly select one of the entries. If the entries I select have the right answer I’ll also see if the person who sent it in follows me on the selected social media and if that is the case we have a winner. If the answer is wrong or the selected person doesn’t follow me on the selected social media I’ll select a new winner.
Here is an example (facebook and Mr. X are just examples in this case) of how I will draw the winner. So, the more you follow me the bigger are your chances of winning.
Good Luck to everyone! You have until January 31 to enter!
About the book:
Gift Edition of The Stand, released by Cemetery Dance.
Slipcased Oversized Hardcover Gift Edition of only 4,000 copies printed in two colors on a specialty paper stock; bound with a fine binding, two color hot foil stamping, and embossed endpapers; and featuring a unique black-and-white limitation page with artwork by Glenn Chadbourne.
Welcome to 2026! This year Lilja’s Library celebrates 30 years online. Besides a reason for celebration this also means I have run Lilja’s Library for more than half of my life. That is crazy when you think about it.
I will celebrate this during the entire 2026 and throughout the year there will be at least 4 contests with amazing prizes. So far at least one of them will be signed by King himself. The first contest will go live tomorrow.
So, I hope you will be joining me in celebrating Lilja’s Library 30th anniversary! I have already started with a new logo done by the very talented Vincent Chong that I’m very happy with. Vincent is also the first of many to send me a happy birthday wish. If you want to send one, just email it to me and I’ll post it on the site (I’d love it if you do).
With that said, let’s enter 2026, the 30th year online!
Not sure about you but I feel this is King telling all Holly-Haters that he does what he wants regardless of what the fans want him to do and after 90 books I think he has more than earned the right to do so without feeling he owes anyone anything. Go King!
In 2022, it was reported that Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer were doing the book as a Netflix series. Now they say it’s not happening.
Ross Duffer revealed Sadly, Talisman is no longer at Netflix, so we're not involved.
Matt added: I remember I was, I think it was probably naive of us to think we could break The Talisman.
Ross continued: When I interned, when I was really, you know, back in college at Kennedy Marshall, I remember reading, I think it was a movie script for Talisman. So it's been in development forever, so I'm sorry that we were not the ones to break the curse."
Matt then added: It will be whoever does it and cracks it.
2025 is coming to an end and what a year it has been. A lot of nice things have happened during the year. We got a lot of good stuff this year. We got four movies of which two are among the best adaptations ever made from a King story, The Life of Chuck and The Long Walk.
We also got two TV series. Welcome To Derry really left me wanting more. We also got two books during the year.
Besides King we also got a new novel from Joe Hill. King Sorrow is the first new novel from him in nine years. And it’s one of his best ever. Personally, I also got to meet Joe in London and got to interview him for Lilja’s Library. I also went to the Czech Republic for the release of my book Stephen King: Odds & Ends.
Speaking of Lilja’s Library a lot of time during 2025 has been spent preparing for the site’s 30th anniversary next year. The celebration will take place during the entire 2026 with a lot of fun stuff, contest and other surprises.
I also want to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Great New Year and thank all of you what have followed me through the site and the different social medias that I run. It’s been an honor to serve you with the latest news from the world of Stephen King (and the King family) during 2025 and I hope you will be here next year as well and join me in the celebrations.
