Oh lord. Odds of being awful? Pr (awful | King’s recent trajectory, plus vampires) = 96.3%.
Nothing good can come out of this…
I worship the ground Mr. King walks on…but I desperately wish he wouldn’t do this.
I thought he was “done” writing fiction?
Ah, a story of a ghoulish creature engaging in cannibalistic behavior. And then writing a book.
Stephen King is turning into George Lucas, in that he’s rejigging his past triumphs which will inevitably ruin them and make everyone hate him. Mining his back catalog for the Dark Tower series was bad enough.
…several times?
I am sick unto death of vampires, but I guess he’s just trying to cash in on the current craze. Although he’s a bit late! Still, Shining is one of my favorite books ever, and I don’t think he can really improve on it.
I don’t know - I’m curious as to what happened to Danny. Maybe it will be awful but I’ll probably read it anyways. I am currently reading Full Dark, No Stars and it’s better than I expected.
Before I clicked on the link, I thought it would be “The Overlook Hotel 2: More Overlooking” (which would indeed be lame). But having another unrelated novel starring Danny Torrence doesn’t sound offensive to me.
Of course, I gave up reading Stephen King books written after “Insomnia”, so I’m not going to defend the writing quality of his recent books.
Me, too, but why vampires? Danny was a very special child; there’s a great deal more he could deal with than stupid old vampires.
Unlikely, as he was writing about vampires decades before the current craze, and they’re pretty important to The Dark Tower, and as such an important part of his fictional universe.
I think it sounds interesting, and will probably be good - King’s success rate is probably as high as anyone who writes as many books as him.
Well, I have read his vampire books, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t be writing more books just to cash in on it!
Amen! I liked “Salem’s Lot” back in the day but the genre has had the blood sucked out of it, so to speak. And for anyone who gave up on SK I suggest you give “Full Dark, No Stars” a try as LVBoPeep mentioned. The writing really harkens back to his early career.
I just think King needs to properly get in the mood before settling in to write this book.
Anyone have his supplier’s number?
Yeah, I do think he still nails it in his shorter works.
Isaac Asimov writing a sequel that joined his Robot series with the Foundation series seemed like a stupid idea, until I realized that it meant that sales would go up on both Foundation series books and Robot series books, as people unfamilar with books they hadn’t read yet (or hadn’t read in a long time) bought other books in the series to catch up.
This’ll persuade people to buy copies of The Shining. And maybe Salem’s Lot. Makes perfect sense.
Will this new book feature a … lamp monster?
Whoa, I thought Stephen King was dead. Didn’t he get hit by a car or something? Really can’t be bothered to Google. :meh:
He did die. But only in one version of time. In another version, Stephen King manages to carve out a key that merged two competing realities and brought him back into our world so he could write again.
I suspect these vampires will be the same/related to the Salem’s Lot ones. Father Whatshisname featured heavily in the later Dark Tower books, and he likes to tie a lot of his works together via DT.
I still think it will be stupid. I didn’t even like Full Dark, No Stars. I think the last really good book he did was Everything’s Eventual. (Though I will give props to “N” as one of the scariest, most evil stories I’ve ever read.)