![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For me, this story would have worked better if it had been set in a different town rather than trying to lay the mythos over the top of an existing story. Jerusalem’s Lot – This is a classic piece of Lovecraftian fiction, set in the town Jerusalem’s Lot in the 1800s. One of the stories that inspired strong feelings was the first one. What I’ll give you is at least a few sentences on each story with more detail about the ones that I feel most strongly about. There are twenty stories in this collection, so I’m not going to do a detailed review of each one or this will get really long. One of the things I noticed is that many of the threads in these stories would go on to feature in novels over the coming years, which I found absolutely fascinating. Most of the stories contained in the collection were first published in various magazines, and fully half of them were published prior to Carrie so this is some of his earliest published work. Night Shift was the first of King’s short story collections to be published, although several more would follow. I’ll be looking at the recurring themes, the tricks he likes to use, the way he develops character and the way that his craft has evolved in the 44 years since Carrie was first published. I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I will read together, at the end of this adventure) and writing a review of each. ![]()
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