Book #46 of 2016: Needful Things by Stephen King Needful Things is better than The Tommyknockers, but not as good as ‘Salem’s Lot – two other Stephen King novels that share its same basic story structure of a supernatural presence slowly corrupting and effectively destroying a small town. The fact that Needful Things is set …
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Book #24 of 2016: Pet Sematary by Stephen King Pet Sematary is probably the quintessential example of a Stephen King novel with a great, moody build-up throughout the book and then a letdown of an ending. This makes sense, in a way: Pet Sematary is a loose retelling of the short story The Monkey’s Paw, …
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Book #16 of 2016: The Dark Half by Stephen King Like much of Stephen King’s mid-career output, this horror thriller was just okay. I could see the novel having special significance for the writer himself, since it’s about an author forced to go public about his pseudonym (which then comes to life and starts murdering …
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