![]() ![]() It is one of King's band-of-brothers tales, in which some ordinary folks find themselves caught up in a world turned upside down by a strange and malevolent power and fight back, as best they can, to re-establish some semblance of civilization. ![]() Now, from the author of Christine, Carrie and Cujo, comes another c-word: Cell. Revenge, at the hands of the mythmaker of Maine, might not always be swift, but it surely is gloriously gory. His are tales so cinematically told that they vividly appear on the screen in your mind as you read, often followed instantly, it seems, by actual film versions.Īlways lurking within are King's grievances with various malefactors of contemporary life: greedy corporations, soulless technology, desecrators of Indian burial grounds, polluters, towns that look the other way when their children begin to die. King has carved, bloodily, his own particular niche as a horror writer, with a bibliography too extensive to recount. ![]()
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