Holly by Stephen King, 2023, Scribner, 449pp. Available in ebook and audiobook formats. Nearly any writer who has written fiction more than about ten pages in length has encountered what I call “character creep.” You start out with a “throwaway” character, a red-shirt whose only real purpose is to die in chapter three and alert …
If It Bleeds by Stephen King, copyright 2020 Scribner, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Every decade or so, Stephen King likes to put out a collection, usually novellas, sometimes short stories, or a mix of both. So to cap the second decade of the third millennium (Also known as “Mankind’s next-to-last decade”), he …