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Hollywood, music and film have long been scorned for the dominance of 'nepo babies' in the industry - but they've long been present in the literary scene too. These nepo book babies include the likes of Stephen King's sons Joe and Owen, Jodi Picoult's daughter Samantha and John Le Carre's son Nicholas, who are all trying their luck at writing novels. Here, FEMAIL takes a look at all the authors you never realised were literary nepo babies.Pictured L to R: Jodi Picoult and Samantha, Stephen King and son Joe, Alice and Rebecca Walker.

Halloween is approaching, but several hotels in the US are allegedly already full of ghosts and supernatural occurrences. Employees and guests from around the world have claimed to have witnessed frightening things at these hotels that seem too impossible to believe for years.

Looking for something to watch on TV this weekend? Our experts have rounded up the pick of the shows and films available On Demand - so you don't have to.

BRIAN VINER: October is upon us and with it the inevitable bloody drip-drip-drip of scary films, serving the ravenous monster that the Halloween industry has become. Of the two that arrive in cinemas this week, Salem's Lot comes with the shinier pedigree. It's an adaptation of the 1975 Stephen King novel about a New England town bedevilled by vampires, and was first screened as a TV mini-series back in 1979, starring David Soul at a time when he was far better known for driving a Ford Galaxie 500 in Starsky & Hutch, than for driving stakes through the hearts of bloodsucking ghouls.

Slowly, but surely, we are beginning to learn what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has in store for our pensions come the Budget on October 30. Sadly, it doesn't make for particularly pleasant reading (more the horror of Stephen King than the joie de vivre of Jilly Cooper). With less than three weeks to go until Rachel Reeves ' version of Pensions Doomsday, it looks that things can only get worse- rather than better - on the pensions front.

Prominent horror author Stephen King, 77, hailed a new Netflix action thriller movie 'one of the best' in a recent tweet on X. He compared the flick to the film franchise Rambo, created by action-thriller author David Morrell in his 1972 book First Blood.

Ludwig hit screens to rave reviews last week - with fans hailing the irreverant murder mystery as 'the next Jonathan Creek' after just one episode. The show, which stars David Mitchell, 50, hit BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Wednesday and fans are already obsessed. In the new series, David plays John 'Ludwig' Taylor, an introverted and reclusive puzzle setter, who against his better judgement, is dragged into an exciting adventure after his identical twin brother goes missing. If you've already binged the series - possible since all episodes are available to stream - you may be looking for your next murder mystery fix. Here's our pick of the genre's five best contenders to scratch the itch.

Several thousand light years from now, when the Earth lies barren amid post-apocalyptic nuclear fallout, an alien race will arrive in Edinburgh to study this lost, primitive civilisation known as mankind. As they dig through the rubble they will discover a copy of the Scottish ­parliament Business Bulletin dated 6014 AD, and it will read: '2pm, Scottish ­Government Debate: Building the Case for Independence.' I don't know how many times Holyrood has held this debate. Dozens, at least. I don't know what else there is to say.

The terrifying first trailer for Stephen King's Salem's Lot movie was released this week. The new HBO Max movie  set for release on October 3 and based on King's 1976 novel -  tells the story of a novelist Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) attempting to save a small New England town called Jerusalem's Lot, shortened to 'Salem's Lot.

Hundreds of books have been removed from schools as a result of the Florida law. Author Stephen King, known as the 'King of Horror,' was shocked to learn 26 of his books were banned.

Tiger Woods is the Prince Harry of sport. So says his biographer, global sensation James Patterson, who believes the greatest golfer in history was trapped by his fame... and courted disaster when he tried to escape the gilded cage. 'There's a little parallel with the Royal Family,' Patterson tells me in an interview about his new best-seller, Tiger, Tiger.

In the online world, nothing grabs attention like an interactive poll. And so it was that Holly LeGresley came up with a list of five options for her followers to choose from. 'Updated poll,' the began the post from April 2022. 'What should we do with our Monpai??' Monpai was an orphaned baby monkey in Indonesia . LeGresley was a deeply disturbed woman from Kidderminster, Worcestershire. The 37-year-old had devised the poll as a torture list to be shared with a group of like-minded sadists and animal-abusers on an encrypted messaging app.

Wyoming residents were left fearing for their lives after a satirist page falsely claimed a truck filled with king cobras had overturned on a highway. As a result of wide panic, highway officials were forced to issue a statement to assure Casper residents. Three hours after the original fake post was uploaded, Casper Planet also released an update.

Stephen King, a legendary author of horror fiction, has been scared into pleading Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election, as many Hollywood elites start to turn on the president.

Biden remains adamant that he's the man to beat Donald Trump despite the fallout from his debate disaster and feeble ABC News interview, sending out a letter to Congress saying as such early Monday. However, King - a reliable celebrity liberal and anti-Trump voice - has spoken out to say that Biden should call it quits.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: During the only upbeat scene in The Night Caller, lonely taxi driver Tony decides he's going to be a bit more Clint Eastwood, live his life a bit more like John Wayne. He doesn't have a horse and a six-gun, just a black cab and a library card. But he swaggers into the mobile library van like he's walking through the swing doors of a saloon in his jingling spurs - and borrows a stack of cowboy tales by Louis L'Amour. Do libraries really still stock Wild West novelist Louis L'Amour? In his day, he sold close to a third of a billion books, putting him in the same league as Stephen King.

Celebrities including Barbra Streisand, John Cusack, Mark Hamil, and Stephen King vented their frustrations online as the debate played out.

Celebrities including Barbra Streisand, John Cusack, Mark Hamil, and Stephen King vented their frustrations online as the debate played out. One of the top targets was CNN moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash as several celebrities claimed they were letting Trump get away with lying.

In Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens, a documentary attempts to discover the truth, be it mundane or extraterrestrial, about UFO sightings by children in west Wales in 1977. Reporter Sian Eleri, whose previous foray into unexplained phenomena saw her probing a haunted farmhouse in north Wales, visited Broad Haven to track down a few of the pupils, now in their 50s. They stuck doggedly to their story. One man, David Davies, said he endured months of bullying from other children who called him a liar - but he never recanted.

The congresswoman was speaking at Donald Trump 's rally in Las Vegas, where she delivered an applause line that got the crowd going, but has also attracted ample online criticism - including from Stephen King. The prolific, best-selling novelist, mocked the Georgia Republican's stance on EVs, writing, 'You can't make this crap up,' in response to her statement. Since sharing his thoughts, King's post has received nearly 1 million views. But it's not the first time King has taken aim at Greene.

More than two years after it was officially announced, Max's IT prequel series Welcome to Derry is finally moving forward, with a familiar face. The HBO streaming service first announced Welcome to Derry in March 2022, set in the sleepy town of Derry, Maine in the 1960s, before the events of the IT movies. While none of the kids from the original 2017 IT movie were expected to return, Bill Skarsgard - who played Pennywise the Clown - will reprise his role, via Deadline .

Melbourne based cult film expert and critic Lee Gambin has died. News of his passing was released to the internet by his friends on Friday. He was 44.  The cause of death has not been made public.

The highly anticipated sequel to the surprise horror hit Five Nights At Freddy's finally has a release date. Universal Pictures unveiled a slate of release dates for its collaboration with Blumhouse Productions, which primarily specializes in modestly budgeted horror films. The studios announced on Thursday that Five Nights At Freddy's 2 will be hitting theaters on December 5, 2025.

An author popular on BookTok - a subsection of TikTok - has come under fire for saying she's written three books in as many months.  Beth Reeks from south Wales is the writer behind The Kissing Booth and sequels - now a huge success on Netflix featuring the likes of Jacob Elordi and Joey King. Beth, (right) 28, who has written 14 books under her pen name Beth Reekles, posted a video on TikTok with the caption: 'When it's only April but you've already finished writing three books this year.' But YouTuber Jack Edwards (left) said writing three books in so little time was 'not a flex', though he did not mention Beth in his video.