Stephen King - Under the Dome

14th October 2009, Loma-Ann Marks

Stephen King’s much anticipated new novel Under the Dome comes out on 10th November, but if you can’t wait till then from today you can piece it together in a game literary hide and seek.

Stephen King - Under the Dome
Stephen King, photographed by Dick Dickenson

Open is taking part in the game to celebrate the king of horror fiction, whose work has been made into several iconic and spine-chilling films including The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Carrie and Misery.

336,114 words of Under the Dome have been broken into 5,196 pieces of text and hidden online and in the real world. All you need to do is use your sleuthing skills, find the snippets and piece them together.

There are three snippets hidden here on Open…. Think you can find them? We’ll give you a clue…

1) In a corner for poets, this new writer knows her lot:

2) Meet one of our shining new contributors

3) This spooky short story has a twist at the end

For more information on the game visit www.stephenking.co.uk

 

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