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Stephen King Was Killed on “Mr. Mercedes” Last Night
Hot off the box office success of IT, King just died for another adaptation of his work.
Over the years, Stephen King has made cameo appearances in a handful of films, mini-series’ and TV shows based on his stories, including Maximum Overdrive, Pet Sematary, Sleepwalkers and “Under the Dome.” He just continued the tradition on last night’s episode of the Audience Network’s “Mr. Mercedes”!
On last night’s sixth episode of the series, an adaptation of King’s 2014 novel, main character Brady Hartsfield had a daydream sequence inside of a diner, wherein he imagined that everyone in the building had been brutally murdered. Among the bodies littering the diner? Stephen King himself, playing a freshly-dead cook.
“Mr. Mercedes” airs every Wednesday night on the Audience Network.
“Mr. Mercedes follows demented killer Brady Hartsfield, who taunts a retired police detective Bill Hodges with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he is able to strike again.”
Brendan Gleeson leads the show’s cast as Detective Bill Hodges, along with Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) as Brady Hartsfield.
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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