I read "Survivor Type" thirty years ago, and have thought of it many times through the decades. Out of all the thousand of stories I have read, this one stuck!
"Welllll, shit." I was expecting it and still burst out laughing! I love these podcasts and the little gags he does at the end of each one. Another brilliant video.
"Survivor Type" is the first and, so far, only Stephen King story I've had to stop halfway through just to settle my stomach and get my breath. I was just not prepared for it. I'm an audiobook user as reading can be a challenge for me, and between the narrator and the actual story, it was just TOO much. I enjoy it more now that I know what's coming. I like to pair it with "Chattery Teeth." Go dark, then, go silly. And they both involve biting. (Kathy Bates narrates the Audible version of Chattery Teeth, BTW)
just found this channel today because of the overlook strange resort video and have been binging every video since. I LOVE Stephen King. This channel is amazing!
@@kamp_ai Great to hear from someone else who felt the same! Reading the short story 'The Survivor Type' was horrific- despite the main character being a despicable human being! ✌️🐨
I read this one as a kid with all the other stories in the book, some reason i have always remembered this one and it’s probably my favorite short story period.
The ending could have been: Mrs. T stayed on the Island and in the morning the boat had disappeared, both looked at each other and his first thought was "I'm glad I have my pocket knife" DunDunDahhhhhhh.
This channel is an absolute gem. Crazy how few subs it has considering how well done every video is. The effort you put into the voice acting and atmosphere is just awesome.
Anyone else think of "Mrs. Todds Shortcut" when "Ms. T" says "I know a shortcut."? I paused the video to write this, so maybe it's mentioned later.....
Of course Mrs. T=Mrs. Todd! She says so herself: Homer (Buckland) was her co-pilot. "Mrs. Todd's Shortcuts" is my favorite story. Greetings from Germany, by the way! I am so very happy to have found this channel. ❤
I will never forget reading this story when I was 14 or 15. My Nana was a big King fan and when I was around 12, she realized I was both a big horror lover and a voracious reader, so she told me to go through her bookshelf full of King and pick out anything I liked. I had been doing this for years and was obsessed with his works. When I read Survivor Type though, I put his books down for quite some time. That story stuck in my mind and would sneak up on me every so often and cause me to lose a good night's sleep. I eventually picked up reading King's work again, but I've never forgotten the effect Survivor Type had on me.
This little story makes 127 Hours seem like just a picnic! There have been at least two film adaptations, and another adaptation as an episode of a TV anthology series, but that episode never aired. Not that I'm hungry for that stuff. I never watched any of it, but I figure it can't be half as bad as those Human Centipede movies.
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 how about A Restaurant with A Theme From Stephen King Stories ?? Or A Mystery House Where You Solve Your Own Mystery Based On the Books ?? Just An Idea 💡
I remember reading this story one summer when i was 12-13. It disturbed me so much i never forgot it and still think about it today, decades later. "One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four. I've got a fridge with a Stor-More Door."
Subscribed to ur channel months ago. I'd wait until u had a bunch of videos and then Binge. I love your channel and have recommended it to others who enjoy Mr. King. I sit back with a cold glass of something, light some candles, dim the lights and just listen. The stories, your voice ... chefs kiss!! You definitely have a fan for life!!
Great story with a familiar ending? The original "Survivor Type" was truly a horrible, but very well written story! Thank you for this story, which at least gives us some idea as to Dr. Pine's end! Fantastic job!
Not exactly lost, but I was heading towards a locally famous solstice thing, (Its out in the middle of the desert) and I had walked this I think twice before and now we (my family) were walking with family friends. Me and said friends were lagging behind while my family had walked on ahead. They asked me 'do you know where we are going?' and I looked up at them at the time a VERY young teen and pointed directly towards the proper rock fin. I felt very good that I was more intelligent than the adults then. Lol. Then going to a thing called 'the crack' or 'hidden kiva' locally we were hiking in from the bottom up and came across people that were going from the top down. We were VERY late getting to the top and those people had kindly stayed put to make sure we got out. I'll never forget that.
I read this story in the early 90s staying at my brother n his wifes flat, trying to detox off Heroin....just the story I needed to read, given my situation....😮....my brother is long gone, as my sickness was passed on to him and his wife......
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 If only, but Ive been clean for years and have 2 beautiful adult daughters....I didnt mean to lower the tone but your vid just brought up a ghost from my past...be well mate
Legs severed from the knees down? Knees? Oh, man, you went to all this work for this video and got that part wrong. 😢. In the next to last diary entry, he says, "Nothing left below the groin.".
After a bit of a bender in eastern Oregon, I came to while walking in the desert, thankfully I was walking towards the light and managed to get back to where I was staying in time for coffee.
Why oh why didn't Dr Pine just spare himself all the horror and pain and have himself a nice peaceful overdose....? Also, I KNEW that lady was going to ditch Hatfield, especially after Hatfield figures out how the Adventure Hotel was funded.
An overdose on cocaine would be dreadful! You’d be on the roof ! However it’s a great LOCAL anaesthetic … wonder why he didn’t use it 🤔 Would’ve given him the energy to push on a bit. But on a Rocky island in the middle of nowhere.. you got to cut your losses at some point ? Rubbish death. ☠️
A decent amount too. It's literally a painkiller and what all other pain killers are made of. Plus it suppresses appetite and puts you to sleep. Problems solved.... mostly. It's at least going to help a whole lot. 😂
We hope so too... We'll be sad if there's not another Strange Resort podcast... and I guess we'd also be sad if George starved to death, that would also be a bummer.
This was a really good story, reading it brought me great amusement as a kid. I can only imagine the hilarity of Dr. Pine's fate *after being rescued:* "habbadabbummahock trAUUUMA, poor-stoned, CRAB CRAB! Left, left, left right eat eat oomahmahmow..."
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 You just can't ride with any old body these days. He's lucky something with too many eyes didn't jump in the boat before he got to the island.
We are too... We think this video was sent to us courtesy of Mrs. T... but we haven't heard back from poor George Hatfield in quite a while! Hopefully he'll figure out a way off the island!
Oh, but one night, Mrs. T will be back again when the moon is ripe and with a wild look in her eye, and she'll invite you for a ride... "Well, shit!" Indeed!
I was on a cruise in Mexico once. Drug 'movements' just as big today as then. They only have differences in storage. Let alone, the latest political stories.
I just found this podcast/channel about a week ago, and I immediately subscribed, and within 2 days had paid the $0.99 to become a member as well. But therein lies my dilemma, I would like to go back and watch/listen to the episodes, ESPECIALLY the STRANGE RESORT episodes in chronological order, but when it comes down to figuring that order out, unfortunately, I'm lost. Can someone PRETTY PLEASE help me out with the order of these episodes so that I can get caught up? Thanks in Advance from a new Book Club Member ❤
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Chilling when she offhandly told our narrator, "You might say I'm your number one fan."
I read "Survivor Type" thirty years ago, and have thought of it many times through the decades. Out of all the thousand of stories I have read, this one stuck!
"Welllll, shit." I was expecting it and still burst out laughing! I love these podcasts and the little gags he does at the end of each one. Another brilliant video.
LOL, thank you so much!
Did you know Steven king also was on Epstein r island
"Survivor Type" is the first and, so far, only Stephen King story I've had to stop halfway through just to settle my stomach and get my breath. I was just not prepared for it. I'm an audiobook user as reading can be a challenge for me, and between the narrator and the actual story, it was just TOO much. I enjoy it more now that I know what's coming.
I like to pair it with "Chattery Teeth." Go dark, then, go silly. And they both involve biting. (Kathy Bates narrates the Audible version of Chattery Teeth, BTW)
Really clever, the shout out/crossover with Mrs Todd's Shortcut.
Well done!
God I remember this story. It has stuck with me since high school.
I like how you made him look like Chris Pine!
The same!!
Wow! I thought it was just me.
You have put huge effort into this! A visual and narrative triumph! Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
What have I found here? This is fantastic!!
Welcome! This is where we dive into the world of Stephen king in all sorts of ways! :)
When you know, you know……😃
Kings own personal fave of his short stories, I think I read somewhere. It is a wonderfully macabre setup.
just found this channel today because of the overlook strange resort video and have been binging every video since. I LOVE Stephen King. This channel is amazing!
Same
Oh wow!This particular short story stayed with me. To find out the good Dr's fate is everything!👍 From Australia 🐨
The owner does have great writting potential.... unlike his acting and whispering... quite annoying. .. just stick to writting for now.
Word homez💀
from mississippi ✊🏽 this story stuck with me as well
@@kamp_ai Great to hear from someone else who felt the same! Reading the short story 'The Survivor Type' was horrific- despite the main character being a despicable human being! ✌️🐨
Nice to see Mrs. Todd, again.
I read this one as a kid with all the other stories in the book, some reason i have always remembered this one and it’s probably my favorite short story period.
This was really great. And having Mrs. T state I am your number one fan i wanted to scream run away!
"I'm your number one fan." RUN GEORGE RUN GET HELP!!!
LOL! He should've known!
The ending could have been: Mrs. T stayed on the Island and in the morning the boat had disappeared, both looked at each other and his first thought was "I'm glad I have my pocket knife" DunDunDahhhhhhh.
Ooh, that's a nice Nice cliffhanger too!
The podcasts are my FAVOURITE format 😊
This channel is an absolute gem. Crazy how few subs it has considering how well done every video is. The effort you put into the voice acting and atmosphere is just awesome.
Wow, thank you!
One of my favorite short stories by King!
Anyone else think of "Mrs. Todds Shortcut" when "Ms. T" says "I know a shortcut."? I paused the video to write this, so maybe it's mentioned later.....
It might not be mentioned later... but I definitely think you're onto something! ;)
I also thought of 'Misery' when she said, 'I'm your number one fan'!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 that go devil car of hers made it pretty far.
Of course Mrs. T=Mrs. Todd! She says so herself: Homer (Buckland) was her co-pilot.
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcuts" is my favorite story.
Greetings from Germany, by the way! I am so very happy to have found this channel. ❤
This one always gave me the creeps, so I read it multiple times, and I like that you explored this from a particular angle. Wonderful work!
Awesome, thank you!
Nice new thumbnail. And I know he'll be okay. He has so much more to narrate...😮
The King of the short story
Ok Stephen's face just creeped me out. Even before the video started.Plus I am barely awake. 😮
Thanks. I was scrolling to see if someone had balls to comment this. He looks like he's becoming the Grinch
AI
They animated this story already in the Creepshow Animated Special on Shudder a few years ago. I did a book report on this story in Junior High
Please tell me your classmates didn't ask for a re-enactment 😂😂😂
Sean Connery as the bartender was unexpected.
Lasy fingers they taste just like lady fingers.
- Richard Pine
How much trauma can a patient endure?
How badly does the patient want to live?
The will to survive is an odd thing. I knew a girl. Who went through hell. Yet pulled through, all because she was too stubborn to die.
One of my favorite King Shorts. Always liked the "Last Survivor" trope/genre, and King's "Survivor Type" is one of my first and one of the best.
I will never forget reading this story when I was 14 or 15. My Nana was a big King fan and when I was around 12, she realized I was both a big horror lover and a voracious reader, so she told me to go through her bookshelf full of King and pick out anything I liked. I had been doing this for years and was obsessed with his works. When I read Survivor Type though, I put his books down for quite some time. That story stuck in my mind and would sneak up on me every so often and cause me to lose a good night's sleep. I eventually picked up reading King's work again, but I've never forgotten the effect Survivor Type had on me.
This little story makes 127 Hours seem like just a picnic! There have been at least two film adaptations, and another adaptation as an episode of a TV anthology series, but that episode never aired. Not that I'm hungry for that stuff. I never watched any of it, but I figure it can't be half as bad as those Human Centipede movies.
My favorite King short story !
Same. Horrifying and fascinating 😂
Enjoyed to the last word. Thank you
LOL, glad you enjoyed it!
Nicely done. Great work as usual. Keep it up. 👍
Just awesome. The reason I love Kings writings. ❤
She looks good for a 75 year old woman
I was gripped the whole time!
I have read this story, It truly takes survival tryhard to its limit. 😢
I'm Here and I Love This. It Made My Night to Watch This. Any Stephen King Stories Are Captivating. ❤ ❤ 😊
Glad you found us!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 how about A Restaurant with A Theme From Stephen King Stories ?? Or A Mystery House Where You Solve Your Own Mystery Based On the Books ?? Just An Idea 💡
I remember reading this story one summer when i was 12-13. It disturbed me so much i never forgot it and still think about it today, decades later. "One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four. I've got a fridge with a Stor-More Door."
I’m 52 years old now and out of the many, many stories I’ve read (mostly horror and murder mysteries) this is the creepiest story I’ve ever read.
I absolutely love your style. Especially awesome listening before Halloween!
Also, kudos for getting Sean Connery!
A great end to my Sunday 😎
I read this as a teenager. I still get a kick out of his warped humor
Omg, just found this, wonderfully done! This story has always been one of my favorite, love how you revisited. Sorry you are now stuck there. 😁
We're hoping we here from our podcaster George Hatfield again... but we're not holding our breath...
Subscribed to ur channel months ago. I'd wait until u had a bunch of videos and then Binge. I love your channel and have recommended it to others who enjoy Mr. King. I sit back with a cold glass of something, light some candles, dim the lights and just listen. The stories, your voice ... chefs kiss!! You definitely have a fan for life!!
Awesome! Thank you so much. I'll try to keep on creating videos for you!
Great story with a familiar ending? The original "Survivor Type" was truly a horrible, but very well written story! Thank you for this story, which at least gives us some idea as to Dr. Pine's end! Fantastic job!
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
It's nice they dug up Sean Connery for this.
Not exactly lost, but I was heading towards a locally famous solstice thing, (Its out in the middle of the desert) and I had walked this I think twice before and now we (my family) were walking with family friends. Me and said friends were lagging behind while my family had walked on ahead. They asked me 'do you know where we are going?' and I looked up at them at the time a VERY young teen and pointed directly towards the proper rock fin. I felt very good that I was more intelligent than the adults then. Lol.
Then going to a thing called 'the crack' or 'hidden kiva' locally we were hiking in from the bottom up and came across people that were going from the top down. We were VERY late getting to the top and those people had kindly stayed put to make sure we got out. I'll never forget that.
Thanks for sharing this!
I read this story in the early 90s staying at my brother n his wifes flat, trying to detox off Heroin....just the story I needed to read, given my situation....😮....my brother is long gone, as my sickness was passed on to him and his wife......
Thanks for sharing this... Did the story feel like a wake-up call for you?
@@stephenkingbookclub1054
If only, but Ive been clean for years and have 2 beautiful adult daughters....I didnt mean to lower the tone but your vid just brought up a ghost from my past...be well mate
Great job! That was a blast! Well done. Bravo!
Legs severed from the knees down? Knees? Oh, man, you went to all this work for this video and got that part wrong. 😢. In the next to last diary entry, he says, "Nothing left below the groin.".
❤❤❤❤❤ 😂love this 🎉
Favorite short story (King or anyone).
Lady fingers...
Yes, this is a particularly memorable one from King
OMG I loved the animated special they did of this story.
Yes! Very creepy!
This is the one that stuck with me the most since high school 25 years ago.
Never heard anyone discuss it
I hadn't heard this one, loved the ending. Excellent content 👍👍👍👍
i felt sure an abandonment by the sailboat and mrs T was coming up. kind of hoped for it, actually.
I wondered too but damn 😳
Awesome video, thank you for sharing!!!
Hey, I've been to Palau. It's *gorgeous*.
After a bit of a bender in eastern Oregon, I came to while walking in the desert, thankfully I was walking towards the light and managed to get back to where I was staying in time for coffee.
Why oh why didn't Dr Pine just spare himself all the horror and pain and have himself a nice peaceful overdose....? Also, I KNEW that lady was going to ditch Hatfield, especially after Hatfield figures out how the Adventure Hotel was funded.
An overdose on cocaine would be dreadful! You’d be on the roof !
However it’s a great LOCAL anaesthetic … wonder why he didn’t use it 🤔
Would’ve given him the energy to push on a bit.
But on a Rocky island in the middle of nowhere.. you got to cut your losses at some point ?
Rubbish death. ☠️
@@handmadenaturalsoaps-byluc1996 It was heroin, not cocaine
I know that was my thought too w the heroin-- easy peasy OD and done.
A decent amount too. It's literally a painkiller and what all other pain killers are made of. Plus it suppresses appetite and puts you to sleep. Problems solved.... mostly. It's at least going to help a whole lot. 😂
Sean Connery retired to be a bartender on a cruise ship. Who knew?
Love the Ending!!!
"number 1 fan"
Be careful when you hear that
Hopefully, George is okay and has already been rescued by somebody or picked up by Mrs T!
We hope so too... We'll be sad if there's not another Strange Resort podcast... and I guess we'd also be sad if George starved to death, that would also be a bummer.
Mrs. T knows _all_ the shortcuts.
haha. Damn I really enjoyed this one! Thanks
This would be a fine body horrormovie.
28:09 RUN GEORGE! THAT MUSIC IS THE MATING CALL OF INCESTUOUS WERECATS!
Hahahahahaha!
Ah, I was hoping this was a review of Storm of the Century; I hope you do that one.
...really, your best work.
I quite like the reference to that the Lady knows shortcuts. Thats my gal!
Soo many references. Exquisite. Your fan,
Thanks so much! I had a lot of fun putting this one together.
This was a really good story, reading it brought me great amusement as a kid. I can only imagine the hilarity of Dr. Pine's fate *after being rescued:* "habbadabbummahock trAUUUMA, poor-stoned, CRAB CRAB! Left, left, left right eat eat oomahmahmow..."
Little MsTodds Shortcuts on the sea? :D
I had a feeling that was how it was gonna end. Dang. Haha. 😅😅😅
Surprised...hugely...that this was not turned to a movie or tv mini-series.
Waking up to find the boat had left. That would be…annoying.
I'm pretty sure Creepshow, on Shudder, did an animated special of this story. It was really good!
I'm listening to this while eating a pork chop, lol!
This reminds me of the song Sir John by Carach Angren
Mrs. T? As in Mrs. Todd? She of the eldritch shortcuts?
Bullseye!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 You just can't ride with any old body these days. He's lucky something with too many eyes didn't jump in the boat before he got to the island.
wait...how will he get back..i m too invested
We are too... We think this video was sent to us courtesy of Mrs. T... but we haven't heard back from poor George Hatfield in quite a while! Hopefully he'll figure out a way off the island!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 Never Trust that woman. 😅
I cant be the only one who onew, the minute he got on ms T's boat, how things would end 🤔
You should do Stange resorts the langalers
The Langoliers
Oh, but one night, Mrs. T will be back again when the moon is ripe and with a wild look in her eye, and she'll invite you for a ride... "Well, shit!" Indeed!
That is what happens when you put trust in your "Number One Fan"...
Right?! Poor George should've known better!
Chris Pine
My 55th birthday.
It took me until Mrs T said "I knew a shortcut" to understand the reference.
Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City
I’m just a poor stoned crab can you spare a dime?
Oops I loved my own comment and can’t delete! Ugh!
The Hawaiian theme from Sleepwalkers, I see what you did there.
Nice! You're the first one to notice in the comments.
I was on a cruise in Mexico once. Drug 'movements' just as big today as then. They only have differences in storage. Let alone, the latest political stories.
What is the title of this story?
"Survivor Type" from Stephen King's collection SKELETON CREW
scary😊
I just found this podcast/channel about a week ago, and I immediately subscribed, and within 2 days had paid the $0.99 to become a member as well. But therein lies my dilemma, I would like to go back and watch/listen to the episodes, ESPECIALLY the STRANGE RESORT episodes in chronological order, but when it comes down to figuring that order out, unfortunately, I'm lost. Can someone PRETTY PLEASE help me out with the order of these episodes so that I can get caught up? Thanks in Advance from a new Book Club Member ❤
Thanks so much for joining... I've recently put the Strange Resort episodes in their own playlist, so hopefully that will help :)
Bartenders voice sounds very familiar.
No, I never had.