The Green Mile
Novel by Stephen KingWikipedia
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Oct 16, 2026
Erin MoonHOST
But, but like very, very much like his, his like pop hits.
Erin MoonHOST
So I w- like, uh, The Dark Tower, 11/22/63, uh, The Shining, The Stand, The Green Mile, Misery, Un- like I did read Under the Dome, which was a mistake.
Erin MoonHOST
But, um, I-
Knox McCoyHOST
Ah.
Jamie GoldenHOST
It's...
Jamie GoldenHOST
But, but when you think about it, it's like the populist of it all.
Jamie GoldenHOST
Like It, The Stand, Shining, Misery, The Green Mile, The Long Walk.
Erin MoonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jason RekulakGUEST
He stopped writing horror.
Jason RekulakGUEST
He started writing, you know- The Green Mile and like, uh, you know, just, just different kinds of books.
Jason RekulakGUEST
Um, and, uh, and I think there were a couple years where there just weren't any horror movies at all.
Jason RekulakGUEST
Um, and I don't know what happened at the start of the '90s to, to explain that, you know? It was like may- maybe some of part of it is, like, political.
Alison FincherHOST
The marketing category horror... wasn't even invented in English language markets until the golden age of Stephen King in the 1980s, about the same time as Japanese markets started using the label Hora from the English language term.
Alison FincherHOST
Just in case you're unfamiliar with Stephen King, he's the author of Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Kujo, Pet Cemetery, It, The Green Mile.
Alison FincherHOST
For what it's worth, King, this seminal figure in horror fiction, identifies a surprisingly diverse list of books that are important to the horror genre.
Alison FincherHOST
It includes William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Richard Adams' Watership Down, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, yes.
speaker_0HOST
We are looking at Stephen King's 1996 masterpiece, The Green Mile.
speaker_1HOST
A novel that truly straddles multiple genres, as the text points out.
speaker_1HOST
It is a historical drama, a profound intimate character study, a supernatural horror story, and a thriller all operating simultaneously and flawlessly.
speaker_0HOST
The setting is incredibly specific and claustrophobic.
speaker_0HOST
It's set in 1932 during the Great Depression entirely on death row, which they call the Green Mile because of the color of the linoleum floor at Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
speaker_1HOST
It's such a bleak environment.
speaker_0HOST
We follow the head corrections officer, Paul Edgecomb, and the arrival of John Coffey.
Gretchen B.HOST
The group says the number of books banned in the past year has been the most since it started recording removals five years ago.
Gretchen B.HOST
This year, King's books were pulled 312 times, with The Shining and The Green Mile being the most pulled.
Gretchen B.HOST
This is the second year that Stephen King's books were the most removed books from public schools.
Gretchen B.HOST
Incidentally, Banned Books Week was October 4th through the 10th.
speaker_2HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
He was pulled three hundred and twelve times in this report alone, and the specific books mentioned are The Shining and The Green Mile.
speaker_2HOST
It's an interesting anomaly.
speaker_1HOST
The Stephen King anomaly is fascinating because when we talk about modern political debates over school curriculums, the guy who wrote pop horror blockbusters in the 1970s and '80s is not the first name that comes to mind.
speaker_2HOST
They contain intense violence, supernatural terror, profanity, and really mature themes regarding human darkness.
speaker_1HOST
Definitely.
speaker_1HOST
I mean, The Green Mile is an incredibly heavy exploration of death row, historical racism, and horrific executions.
speaker_2HOST
Right.
Brian BrushwoodHOST
And so what that will look like, to be honest, the comp I'm thinking of is many of the Charles Dickens novels that we remember started off as serialized newspaper pieces.
Brian BrushwoodHOST
How is- what a trite, cliche, garbage way, platform out of something very good, you know, when A Christmas Carol comes out, right? And then we go all the way to the novel, and of course the novel is the place where deep, rich stories happens, but we see excellent stories, for example, Stephen King writing The Green Mile, beginning the journey not knowing how it's going to end, publishing exactly like Charles Dickens did with these little serialized novelettes, uh, you know, kind of dime store rags, out of which we get an incredible story.
Brian BrushwoodHOST
So likewise, whether you begin at the, the rich, robust story and then break it into bite-sized pieces or start with the bite-sized pieces and discover something big in there, I can absolutely see even something as rich and as powerful as, as, as Chernobyl happening if...
Brian BrushwoodHOST
The story, Chernobyl, not the actual terrible, uh-
Stephen KingGUEST
Yeah.
Stephen KingGUEST
Well, the, uh, the character I guess in The Green Mile, uh, John Coffey.
Stephen KingGUEST
He, he had the initials, uh-
Neil McRobertHOST
Yeah
Neil McRobertHOST
Mm.
Stephen KingGUEST
But man, there are a lot of characters that I like.
Stephen KingGUEST
I like the, uh, the guy in, in The Green Mile who has the, the mouse, uh, Mr. Jingles.
Neil McRobertHOST
Yeah.
Caleb JHOST
That's what you, why you liked that.
Caleb JHOST
And then, uh, The Green Mile was real- or not The Green Mile.
Caleb JHOST
Uh, I didn't read that one.
Caleb JHOST
The, uh, Shawshank Redemption was really-
Emma SilvermanHOST
I love the obvious ones, like The Shining, It, Shawshank Redemption.
Emma SilvermanHOST
And actually, The Green Mile was the first book that made me cry.
Emma SilvermanHOST
Like, physically, while I'm reading it, made me cry.
Emma SilvermanHOST
There's also books like The Institute, which I think helped inspire Part of Stranger Things.
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