KING OF ASHES is out today in paperback!!! Its also gonna be B&N thriller pick Thank you to everyone who has shown my dark family crime drama some love "Everything burns"...

Muriel Furrer: Cyclist killed at World Championships not found for 82 minutes

If you haven’t read this yet, you should fix that.

The glowing yellow sign will soon adorn several more areas.

Apple TV is remaking CAPE FEAR as a TV series starring Patrick Wilson and Javier Bardem — check out the first trailer here.

35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

Ukrainian drones have hit Russia’s main oil export hub at Ust-Luga for the fourth day running. #explodey

Gunmen force delivery driver to take suspected bomb to County Armagh police station

A very Good Friday for Doctor Who fans? @filmisfabulous.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/03/31/d...

China bans storing cremated remains in empty 'bone ash apartments'

I've published several caper short stories about an inept gang of crooks. The first one, "The Bank Job," won the Al Blanchard Award. A couple of years ago I wrote one called "You Will Win!" about their misadventures stealing a bunch of, yes, KitKat bars. It hasn't been published yet. Seems timely!

Partial remains found on a California beach four years ago have now been identified as a former banker who vanished in 1999.

Nice teaser at the end of S4 of #TheLincolnLawyer with Cobie Smulders showing up. Looking forward to seeing her in S5.

Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions were stolen in a heist on a museum near Parma, police say. The gang were in and out in the space of three minutes, Italian media outlets have reported, and were only interrupted by the museum's alarm system, preventing them from stealing more.

This book is very much my jam. It's chock full of fascinating details and insight.

Watch Rush Make Their 2026 Live Debut at the Juno Awards www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw-...

TV tonight: can John Simm’s Brighton cop DI Roy Grace find a missing woman?

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I usually try to keep count when I sign a box of limitation pages but I invariably lose track. So I’m changing metrics. Today I signed 19 lbs of pages.

The paper will shut down April 1 after its final print edition.

On this day in Horror History, THE CHANGELING was released in 1980.

A man who was wrongfully arrested and forced to spend more than two years at a psychiatric hospital in Hawaii because the authorities mistook him for another person who was suspected in a crime will receive a $975,000 settlement from the city and county of Honolulu.

NYT Crossplay Serves The Beam @stephenking.bsky.social

That picture reminds me of the photo where someone added “(right)” to the caption so readers would know which was the human and which was the penguin.

The Mother of All Participation Trophies.

For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote about the peculiar experience of being a crime writer on a grand jury.

@wilwheaton.net returns to The Kingcast to talk about his new audiobook narration of The Body, the 40th Anniversary of Stand By Me, his personal King fandom, and the impact the late, great Rob Reiner had on his life. Fair warning: this one gets emotional right out of the gate.

When the signature sheet is that cool, you know the book is going to be dope!

Chip Taylor, the songwriter behind rock and pop music classics including “Wild Thing,” popularized by the Troggs, and “Angel of the Morning,” made famous by both Merrilee Rush and Juice Newton, has died at 86.

The biggest hypocrite on earth.

Sarah Mullally was installed on Wednesday as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, which includes some 85 million Anglicans around the world. She is the first woman to hold the title.  nyti.ms/47nyAg8

Who was president until the beginning of 2025, Kash? Take all the time you need.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Supertramp's Crime of the Century

A bigger winter colony could mean strong spring movement through the region.

Return to the Territories--also known as Mid-World--this October.

A pilot and co-pilot were killed when an Air Canada passenger plane collided with a fire truck on a LaGuardia Airport runway late Sunday

While making SINISTER Ethan said the click moment for him is when he realized that, just like comedy, horror is performance plus timing.

Ministers confirm locations for seven new towns in England

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: the Duffer brothers’ horror series is absolutely terrifying

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

US Treasury Sec Scott Bessent’s decision to lift sanctions on Iranian oil at sea shows just how badly Trump’s war has failed. Iran will get $14 billion from the deal, the first time the US is buying Iranian oil since 1996. Trump’s Omnishambles: lives lost, billions wasted, now he’s paying Iran.

Um… yes please. How about it @netflix.com