Prime Video greenlights Stephen King’s Crouch End: six-part series

Prime Video has given Crouch End the greenlight, ordering a six-episode limited series based on Stephen King’s short story of the same name. It’s one more high-profile King adaptation headed to streaming.

At the center of Crouch End is Doris Freeman, a globally famous movie star, recounting to a London police inspector how her husband disappeared, and how the events surrounding it kept getting stranger. The series is being framed as a character-driven crime thriller with a supernatural mystery at its core, with a clear Lovecraftian streak running through it.

The limited series also builds on one of King’s more underrated cosmic-horror stories. It first appeared in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos and was later collected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Paul Tomalin (Bodies, Torchwood) is writing, Tom Shankland (House of Guinness, The Serpent) is directing, and Mammoth Screen and Fifth Season are producing. With its North London setting, Crouch End will also be the first Stephen King adaptation produced in the U.K.

If you go to Prime Video for horror and want something stranger than a standard haunted-house setup, Crouch End has a lot going for it. And it’s arriving in the middle of a broader Stephen King surge, with Prime Video’s Carrie, MGM+’s The Institute, and HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry already showing how big that wave has gotten.

Casting is underway, but Crouch End still doesn’t have a confirmed cast, release date, or budget. Once the series is ready, it’ll be available to watch on Prime Video.