Amazon to Release King's 'Crouch End' Miniseries
A TV series will be filmed based on Stephen King's "Lavecraftian" story "Crawlspace".
Consensus
- A six-episode miniseries based on Stephen King’s 'Crouch End' will be released by Amazon Prime Video.
- The miniseries is set in the London suburb of Crouch End.
- It will be the first adaptation of a Stephen King work filmed in the United Kingdom.
- The story centers on a detective investigating the disappearance of a man linked to strange phenomena.
- The series is adapted by Paul Tomalin and directed by Tom Shankland.
- Casting for the series is already underway.
- The story was first published in 1980 and is considered a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.
- The plot involves a world-famous actress claiming her husband vanished due to supernatural events.
Points of divergence
- The miniseries will be the first adaptation of Stephen King's work filmed in the UK, and it will be set in a London suburb. — vm
- The story was first published in 1989 in the anthology 'New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos' and later included in King's 1993 collection 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes.' — fontanka
- Johnny Depp will star in and produce an English-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita.' — vm
- Emir Kusturica will direct three films based on Russian literary works starting in 2026, beginning with 'The Last Term' by Valentin Rasputin. — vm
Coverage (2 sources)
- Stephen King's "Crawl-End" story to be adapted as a mini-series — Вечерняя Москва
- According to Stephen King's "Cranched-End" story, a series will be filmed — Фонтанка