"A fresh Stephen King adaptation should be exciting," said Christina Newland in The i Paper. "It's a shame, then, that Salem's Lot" – a small-town chiller set in 1970s Maine – has "zero new ideas or even a particularly frightening take" on the author's 1975 novel.

Stephen King's first fantasy book, Fairy Tale, is being adapted as a TV show by A24. Per Deadline, the book was initially going to be a feature film from Universal, but, since the novel runs over 600 pages,

Stephen King's 2022 novel Fairy Tale has been hailed as one of his best books in years, and now it's set to be adapted into a 10-part TV series by a major director.