King did a good job of massacring his own boy when he tried to make a film adaptation of the book. To some extent I think that justifies Kubrick’s creative changes.

Agree that the book itself is excellent - and much scarier than the Kubrick movie btw. It’s just that some aspects of it that are the most chilling seem reliant on the medium of it being a novel.

@DJDarren They are both good in their own way but are really only distant cousins. If you want proper disparity between King’s written work and the silver screen version The Running Man is at the zenith.