“I told you before to never read this crap” Bill’s dad rages, before slapping his son across the face. After being discovered by his overzealous father (Tom Atkins), the comic is tossed into a garbage can.

The prologue introduces a young boy named Billy (King’s real-life son Joe Hill) reading the latest edition of the Creepshow comic. Featuring five diabolical tales, Creepshow became a gleeful exercise in adrenalised nastiness and loving craftsmanship. However, in the interim, the two horror icons created a homage to their beloved 1950s comics. Unfortunately, they couldn’t reduce the 700-page novella down to a few hours, or find financing to support the production. Regardless, the pair’s friendship endured and they planned to adapt King’s post-apocalyptic fantasy The Stand. Although their vision never came to fruition, the project eventually emerged as Tobe Hooper’s acclaimed 1979 miniseries.

Romero ( Night of the Living Dead) and Stephen King ( Sleepwalkers) first collaborated when Romero was assigned to adapt Salem’s Lot. Two of the publication’s most ardent fans eventually became horror royalty… During their initial run and decades of reprints and reissues, the gruesome stories stirred the creativity of many. They allowed children’s imagination to focus on bracing tales of horror concerning implacable and supernatural terrors. At the dawn of the Cold War, E.C Comics (including The Vault of Horror and Tales From the Crypt) subtly defused the steadily mounting paranoia of young readers.

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