King of Exchanges 2021

Dear Writer,

thanks so much for writing for me!

I am very fond of Stephen King's works and am really looking forward to what you come up with. I am totally up for imitations of King's style as well as wildly different takes and AUs. For DNWs, no A/B/O or mpreg, and I would also prefer to avoid child death/harm outside of canon.

I have read all King’s novels except for Cell, Blaze, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Gwendy’s Button Box, Sleeping Beauties, If It Bleeds, Later, Billy Summers and the last third of Lisey’s Story (moved house, misplaced, will eventually get back to it, gosh the man is prolific). I am more than happy with crossovers with any of his other works even if not specified and I think all the prompts can do well with these.


The Breathing Method
Stevens

The same mysterious club, and its butler, feature in this and in The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, and really I’m up for anything. Who goes to the club on the other nights? Who, or what, is Stevens? (and why the echo of the author’s name?) Who looks after the library of books that exist nowhere outside? What other unfamiliar things are waiting in all those other rooms? Go wild! Fpr art, glimpses of what lurks in the club (or the library) as well as Stevens' true nature would be great.


The Eyes of the Dragon
Dennis
Thomas (of Delain)

I loved this when I first read it - it was kinder and different from most of his earlier books, but still so recognisably King with all the fantastic details. It's a great sibling relationship, too, and I really want to know what happens to Thomas afterwards (and Dennis) - they're amazing, flawed, characters, and although we get a glimpse in the Dark Tower series I know they have more to say. I'm happy for cross-overs with other King works (The Talisman? Misery?? The Shining?). Do they ever return to the kingdom? King says they do see Peter again, and that they encounter Flagg - I'd love to know any of that story, or follow them along even part of their journey through hardships and fantastic worlds.


Crossover fandom
Johnny Smith (Dead Zone) & Dark Tower
Misery Chastain & Rose Daniels/Rosie McClendon

What if Johnny's power starts showing him futures outside his own world? What if this draws the attention of other, powerful forces? Or what if he encounters one of the Dark Tower characters in our world (note: I have not actually worked out the timeline and can therefore be easily convinced of overlap) and gets a glimpse of their future - what would he think? Would he act on it? Or go very AU and have Johnny, drawn to the Tower (and I'm happy for crossovers with any of King's other psychic protagonists, e.g. Carrie, Charlie, Luke, or Avery) to join him there.

Rose Madder starts with Rose being beaten for reading a Misery novel, and then another one crops up in Daughters & Sisters; what would happen if the two women met? Is there a connection between Rose Madder's world and Misery's? Does Rose find another painting? I love the Gothic of Misery and the oddly twisted Greek myth of Rose Madder, and would love to see them together.

Rose Madder
Rose Daniels/Rosie McClendon
Dorcas/Wendy Yarrow
Caroline

I just re-read this and yes, it has issues, but there's some great stuff there. What I was left wanting to know more about is Rose Madder's world - who is Dorcas? Is she Wendy Yarrow, in any form, or does Rose just see her as that because of her husband? What happens with the tree that Rose grows in her own world - surely someone finds it? Does the vixen change to become the tree's guardian? And the baby Rose retrieves from the temple - what is her role in this? The epilogue in this interests me because it's so explicitly about women's anger, and I don't think it entirely works out how it sees this working, but "I will repay" echoes through it, along with the mythological force of the Greek Furies; I'd love to see anything about this with these characters.

Thank you so much! Enjoy!