Stephen King

The High Five Podcast Episode 45 – Favorite Horror Movie & TV Discovers of 2021

Posted on December 30, 2021 by TJDietsch

With my penultimate 2021 review episode, I’m looking back at some of my favorite horror movies and TV shows of the year!

Throughout the episode, I also mention a bunch of previous episodes, you can find them here:

Episode 2 – Body Swaps – Freaky is FANTASTIC, gang!
Episode 3 – Awesome Current Women Horror Directors
Episode 24 – Wild Canadian Horror – all good selections
Episode 36 – Horror-Themed Comic Flicks From The 20th Century
Episode 39 – Halloween Post Mortem – I totally forgot to mention that watching What We Do In The Shadows with my wife was one of the best TV experiences of the year.
Look at all the It’s All Connected 2021 episodes at this tag!

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The High Five Podcast Episode 42 – Favorite Book & Comic Discoveries Of 2021

Posted on December 10, 2021 by TJDietsch

With 2021 coming to an end, I’m looking back at some of my favorite pop culture experiences of the year. This time around, I’m focusing on books and comics I read for the first time this year, with plenty of nods to previous episodes for newcomers (see links below)!

If you’re curious about the other episodes I mentioned, here are a bunch of handy-dandy links!

Episode 1 – My Favorite Comics & Books Of 2020
Episode 4 – Five Incredible Black Comic Creators features some must-read comics.
Episode 6 – A Quintet Of Women Horror Writers contains some of my favorite books of the year.
Episode 8 – Quick Hit Intros To Wonder Woman gets expanded on in this episode.
Episode 12 – Great Current Horror Writers…Who Aren’t Stephen King feels pretty self-explanatory.
Episodes 18 and 19 encapsulate my chat with Ben Morse about the Marv Wolfman/George Perez New Teen Titans book.
Episodes 25, 26 and 27 contain my interview with Elizabeth Keenan-Penagos about the awesome Rebel Girls.
Episode 30 – The Works Of Grady Hendrix! I can’t stop thinking about most of these books!
Episode 32 – Spooky Brave & The Bold Team-Ups was a fun look at a very different Bat era.
Episode 35 – A Neil Gaiman Sampler is one that I’m still really proud of.
Episode 39 – Halloween Post Mortem features my praise of Tales From The Crypt, The Goon and Lizard Wine.
Episode 41 – Brian Michael Bendis At DC Part 1 ! I’m still really enjoying these comics!

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The High Five Podcast Episode 33 – It’s All Connected 2021 Part 3

Posted on September 17, 2021October 1, 2021 by TJDietsch

On this week’s episode, I’m carrying on with It’s All Connected Part 3! If you want to see where I went after the first and second episodes, you’re in luck! This latest batch finishes up my Mike Flanagan run, digs into the wild world of Stephen King adaptations and takes a few tangents in all the best ways!

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The High Five Podcast Episode 29 – It’s All Connected 2021 Part 1

Posted on August 20, 2021October 1, 2021 by TJDietsch

On this week’s episode, I let you into the wonderful world of It’s All Connected 2021, the horror film project I do wherein each movie is connected to the previous in some way! I’ve already gone through six flicks and it’s only August, so hopefully this will be the best year yet! If you’re curious about last year’s It’s All Connected, you can find all the links here!

If you’re curious, here‘s my review of The Dead Zone book from several years back.

As always, you can email me at high5tj at gmail.com or follow me on Twitter and Instagram.

The High Five Podcast Episode 12 – Great Current Horror Writers…Who Aren’t Stephen King

Posted on April 9, 2021 by TJDietsch

On today’s episode, I’m running down five rad horror authors working right now who are not the master Stephen King. Over the course I talk about a dozen different books that have really hit me over the past decade or so. Hopefully you’ll find someone new to read as you listen!

I’ve written about a lot of these books here on the site: Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied, A Head Full Of Ghosts, HorrorStor, Paperbacks From Hell, Locke & Key, Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, NOS4A2, 20th Century Ghosts, The Shining Girls and Broken Monsters.

In the episode I also mentioned Valancourt Books, Thriftbooks, Bookbub and the Kindle Daily Deals email list. Check them out!

Riding With The King: Dreamcatcher (2001)

Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 by TJDietsch

How do you go through a particular artist’s work when you want to absorb it all? I take a variety of paths, sometimes trying to go through the efforts chronologically, other times by theme or subject. With Stephen King’s books, I’m a bit more willy nilly! I’ve read a good number so far and have purchased even more, so I often find myself staring into my horror To-Read box wondering which King to tackle next. Though I still have his latest, If It Bleeds, to devour, I decided to dip into the box and chose 2001’s Dreamcatcher for two reasons: one, it’s long and two, I heard it wasn’t very good. Luckily, I was wrong about one of those things!

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My Favorite Newer Horror Movie Experiences Of 2019

Posted on January 12, 2020 by TJDietsch

Okay, so I already talked about by favorite older horror movie experiences of last year, so now it’s time for the newbies! I rarely see horror films in the theater, but do try to keep up on the new hotness mainly by listening to Shock Waves and hearing what they’re enjoying on any number of streaming services. Between that, the library and my subscription to Netflix DVD (yup, I’m the one keeping them in business, apparently), I try to stay on top of the genre, but miss a lot. These are the ones I caught!

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My Favorite Book Reading Experiences Of 2019

Posted on January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 by TJDietsch

Let’s keep this Best Of 2019 thing going! So far, I’ve covered my favorite classic horror movie viewings of last year and now I’m on to books. I keep this rad super hero wall-mounted shelf in my office and stack up the physical books I’ve read throughout the year. As you can see in this photo, I also have a list next to it that I can put digital and library conquests on as well. It sure makes it simple to do a list like this!

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Riding With The King: The Institute

Posted on December 2, 2019 by TJDietsch

Last year I decided that, even though I don’t mind buying books second hand, I’d like to get Stephen King’s latest as they come out. As it happened, he released not one, but two books in 2018, the incredibly creepy The Outsider and the fairy tale-esque Elevation. This year, The Institute came out and I was so excited to dive in, though it took me a while to get through it (what else is new?).

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Riding With The King: End Of Watch (2016)

Posted on January 25, 2019September 24, 2019 by TJDietsch

I keep a checklist on my phone of all the Stephen King books out there that I use to keep track of which ones I own, in what format and whether I’ve read them or not. Dude’s got so many offerings that it’s hard to keep everything in my head and I’m not a big fan of buying the same book more than once, even at flea market or yard sale prices!

After writing about the four King books I read in 2018 and looking at my list, I realized that I’ve actually read more of his most recent dozen books than his first dozen. I dig this fact because it means I still have plenty of his works to read, but also it reminds me that he’s still spinning yarns that I can’t wait to get my hands on and tear through.