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Stephen King’s Revival is a novel that experiments with cosmic horror to tell a story much less interested in providing cheap scares than in discussing how our search for order (and justice) in life leads us to embrace a religion. The real horror of its narrative is not crafted around the danger of eldritch beings, but how our concept of an afterlife shapes our worldview and dictates our actions: to pose the question “but what if we are wrong”, that way madness lies.
The book is narrated in the first person by Jamie Morton, an old man who begins to recall his childhood, beginning on the day the new Methodist minister, Charles Jacobs, arrived in his town and changed his life [...]
The latest supernatural crime thriller by Stephen King, The Outsider, has a great start, pushing its characters to their limits, making them face questions regarding the limits of reason and, paradoxically, the terrible consequences of acting based on emotions alone. Its second half, however, brings the pacing to a halt, with the introduction of an uninteresting supernatural creature that does more harm than good to the story.
The novel begins with a boy, Frank Peterson, being found dead in the woods of a small town, where everyone knows everyone, with his throat shredded to pieces, his body violated by a dead branch and covered in semen. An eyewitness confirms that she saw [...]
In true Stephen King fashion, Christine is much more interested in how its horror elements affect the character and impact their relationships than in how they scare the reader. However, if the novel is successful in this regard, it’s also unfortunately marred by an inconsistent handle of points of view.
The plot focuses on the friendship between two young adolescents: the football player Dennis Guilder and his childhood friend, the feeble Arnie Cunningham. One day, when Arnie decides to buy his first car, a dilapidated red 1958 Plymouth Fury, Dennis starts to notice something is wrong – a feeling that only grows stronger as Arnie becomes increasingly obsessed with his [...]