Book Review: 'Stephen King's Creepshow'
Cover for Stephen King's Creepshow by Jack Kamen. © 1982 Plume Books, an imprint of Penguin Books In July of 1982, Penguin Books imprint Plume published Stephen King's Creepshow, a graphic novel based on George A. Romero's eponymous horror film, which had premiered in Cannes two months earlier but would not hit theaters for another four months. Written by King and illustrated by the late Bernie Wrightson under his professional nom de plume "Berni Wrightson," Creepshow (like the film it is derived from) is a graphic homage to the horror comics published by EC Comics in the 1950s. The 64-page book presents the same five stories in King's screenplay for the movie, two of which ( The Crate and The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill ) were adaptations of prose stories the author had published in men's magazines in the 1970s ; the other three segments were written specifically for Romero's film. Creepshow's quintet of horror tales consists of: