Stephen King’s ‘Evil Dead’ Blurb Took Exactly One Word

Stephen King’s ‘Evil Dead’ Blurb Took Exactly One Word

October 5, 2026 iHorror

Getting Stephen King’s name onto the poster for The Evil Dead took one word, and the word was “Yep.” Bruce Campbell laid out the mechanics on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast: King had already raved about the film in print, and nobody who made it knew how to reach him to ask whether they could print it back.