I too, wish he hadn’t done this… and yet I know I must read it.
They already did this, in an X-Files episode.
Yeah, you’ll want to read Duma Key. And 11/22/63. And The Wind Through the Keyhole.
He still can write. From time to time.
Unabashed fan here. The Shining is the Holy Grail of King novels, IMHO. It spoke to me on some levels at 14 when I first read it. At 38, it was quite a different experience.
Since I’m such a fan, I’m not quick to deride his interest in delving into where things went. I don’t think for a moment that King wrote his novel with the coda chapter with the intention of writing a sequel. I think he’s curious.
Whether his curiosity produces a story that pleases me is another thing entirely !!
For some reason, the promo text is making me think of Justin Cronin’s The Passage and The Twelve, even though the plot doesn’t actually sound all that similar.
Um… Okay. I’d… never thought of this before.
I suppose if I tilt my head and squint, it could work “perfectly well,” but I’m not sure it’d hang together as well, especially since it’s not just told from Jack’s point of view…
And in the movie Near Dark.