BACKLASH BOMBSHELL: Stephen King’s twisted lie about Charlie Kirk costs him BIG—UK bookstore DUMPS ALL his books in fiery takedown! 😤 ‘We thought more of you, StephenKing… your half-assed sorry doesn’t cut it.’ Is this the end of the horror king’s empire? Expose the full savage fallout—link below!”
The ink on Stephen King’s apologies was barely dry when the backlash turned into a bonfire, scorching his literary legacy in a corner of the world far from his Bangor, Maine, typewriter. It was September 12, 2025, just two days after that fateful crack of a rifle in Orem, Utah, had silenced Charlie Kirk forever. The 31-year-old conservative powerhouse, mid-sentence on his “American Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University, had been railing against “woke indoctrination” to a crowd of over 3,000 fired-up students when 22-year-old Tyler Robinson’s .308 bullet found its mark from the Losee Center rooftop. Kirk crumpled, blood soaking the stage, his last words a half-formed jab at cultural decay. Robinson—a straight-A valedictorian turned online troll, with shell casings scrawled in furry memes like “OwO what’s this?”—was nabbed after 33 hours on the run, thanks to a family tip from a casual dinner chat where he’d gloated about the event. No manifesto, just Discord logs and a “squeaky clean” kid gone rogue, facing life in Utah’s Iron County Jail on murder and weapons charges.
Kirk’s death hit like a cultural earthquake. The kid who’d launched Turning Point USA at 18 with $30,000 in donor scraps had built an empire: busing teens to Trump rallies, suing colleges for “bias,” and clocking 1.5 million podcast downloads a month. To his tribe, he was the anti-rot crusader, skewering trans “mutilation” and school board takeovers. Detractors? They saw a fear-monger, but even some lefties paused in grief. President Donald Trump, flags at half-staff till the 14th, blasted it on Truth Social as “war on our freedoms.” Vigils mushroomed: Phoenix’s candle seas where Turning Point rose, NFL silences drowned in “USA!” chants, a Kennedy Center hymn-fest drawing thousands under starry D.C. skies. Erika Kirk, clutching photos of their two toddlers, told one crowd: “Charlie died for truth—let hate not win.” Her plea, live to 1.2 million views, pierced the pain.
But online? It was a sewer of schadenfreude. Bluesky and X bubbled with barbs: “Bullet’s fine?” from pilots and teachers. The right retaliated like avenging angels. Laura Loomer’s doxxing threads exploded to millions: “Grave-dance? Job gone.” “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” hit 30,000 tips. By the 12th, 15 livelihoods torched: profs pink-slipped, firefighters sidelined, Pentagon peons suspended. Sen. Marsha Blackburn howled for “sympathy-free” firings; Rep. Clay Higgins demanded eternal bans. Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth grounded joker pilots; American Airlines yanked crew. Gretchen Felker-Martin, trans horror scribe, ate her DC Comics Red Hood gig for “Nazi bitch” zingers, unbowed in Comics Journal. Chris Pratt’s prayer tweet spawned #CancelChris and 20,000-signature petitions. And then, Stephen King lit the fuse.
At 78, the horror titan—It, The Shining, 350 million copies sold—wields X like a chainsaw. Vocal Dem donor, Trump-basher extraordinaire, his @StephenKing feed (6 million followers) blends plugs with punches. Kirk’s hit flipped him raw. Hours post-shot, as Fox’s Jesse Watters eulogized Kirk as “patriot,” King struck: “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.” No source, pure venom—twisting a 2024 podcast clip where Kirk mocked kids’ YouTuber Ms. Rachel for mangling Leviticus on Pride. “Crack that Bible,” Kirk snarked. “Leviticus 20:13: Man lies with man? Stoned to death. Just sayin’.” Satire on cherry-picking, not a fatwa—Kirk backed gay marriage since 2011, hosted Log Cabin Republicans, decried stoning as savage. But King’s post? It painted Kirk a grave-fresh zealot, deleted by morning but screenshotted to hell.
The inferno roared. Sen. Ted Cruz thundered: “Horrible, evil, twisted liar.” Biologist Gad Saad: “Smear a corpse?” Sen. Mike Lee: “Sue for defamation!” #BoycottStephenKing surged to 200,000 posts, fans torching The Stand in clips. Gateway Pundit eyed million-dollar suits from Kirk’s estate. King’s first stab? “American gun violence again.” But the stoning lie? It justified the bullet to some.
King backpedaled hard. September 12 barrage: “I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays. What he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages.” Another: “Charlie never advocated stoning gays to death. I was wrong, deleted the post. Won’t happen again.” To Cruz: “The horrible, evil, twisted liar apologizes. This is what I get for reading X without fact-checking.” He owned the Ms. Rachel fuzz: “Watched last month—Kirk called out hypocrisy, not stones.” HuffPost: “Apology spree.” Hollywood Reporter: “Politics combustible.” Deadline: “Lawyers circling.” Sales dipped 5% week-on-week; cons whispered “boycott the walk.”
Enter Belfast Books, the plucky Northern Ireland indie—a “book shack” slinging second-hand tomes online. On the 12th, they dropped the hammer: “We thought so much more of you @StephenKing, and even though this may harm us financially, we’re removing all your books from our website. An absolutely abhorrent and ill-informed comment in the first instance, and an inchoate apology doesn’t begin to cover it. Go further.” The post? Viral napalm—134,000 likes, 17,000 reposts, 8 million views. Irish Star blared: “Bans all after ‘abhorrent’ comments.” Belfast Telegraph defended: “More comprehensive apology needed.” HypeFresh: “Pulled in Belfast—censorship debate ignites.” Titles vanished from their site, a principled gut-punch from a shopped-out operation.
X ignited. @TheGrayRider: “Words consequential—apology too weak.” @dom_lucre: “King’s lifetime mistake—canceled first time.” @IanJaeger29: “Barnes & Noble, Amazon—remove him!” with 95,000 likes. Rosie O’Donnell caught heat for echoing the lie, risking ad millions. Reddit’s r/books: 843 votes, 989 comments—”Let people decide, or true statement?” @patprays: “Way to go Belfast!” Calls to tariff-free support for the shop poured in.
The irony? King’s On Writing preached truth; here he peddled fiction on a foe. Kirk’s Leviticus quip? Gotcha on Ms. Rachel’s “love thy neighbor” twist—not gospel. He’d fund anti-LGBTQ fights but backed marriage equality. King’s tweet, amid Watters’ praise, read like justification. “Insane—words encourage violence,” Colin Wright jabbed. Fox looped: “Deletes after Cruz.” Mediaite: “Apology late?” USA Today: “Outrage over patriot smear.” Blaze: “Why the impulse?” King’s Sarasota snowbird spot—near Kirk’s Longboat Key pad—added local sting.
Belfast’s stand spotlighted the chasm. A “book shack” risking bucks for principles? Heroic to some, censorious to others. @perrybarber: “Banning books? Rethink.” @zotortweets: “People buy anyway.” @Brendon5374: “End of story? What about Trump’s lies?” @anoldfriend: “Kirk’d hate shelf-purging.” @iammarathonman: “Companies cutting ties—it’s happening.” King’s feed? Musing Substack: “Words haunt.”
Robinson’s trial brews—motive murky, family betrayal key. Atlantic: “Polarization’s venom.” NBC: “Copycat fears.” Gov. Spencer Cox: “We don’t do this.” FBI’s Kash Patel: “Justice swift.” WIRED yanked a South Park Kirk spoof; MSNBC axed Matthew Dowd for softer swipes. DNC’s Ken Martin: “Political violence.”
For King, it’s a page-turner gone sour. Belfast’s purge? Symbolic scar—his empire endures, but trust frays. As September 15 dawned, vigils waned, but echoes thundered: One tweet, one bullet—both carve canyons. King’s words didn’t kill, but they vivisected a dead man’s honor. Belfast’s stand? A quill against the keyboard. In this funhouse of fury, where apologies limp and shelves empty, the real horror is us—monsters birthed by screens. Kirk’s fight lives in youth fire; King’s? A ghost story of regret. Who’s next to ink the grave?
