What could I do from there but pick up another novel? Not quite wanting to dive into the Bible-length novel The Stand, I opted instead for Rose Madder. Not scary, as his stuff usually isn’t, but intense and with fabulous character development. I think it may have been less than one full day, though due to working full time, I had to read it in two separate sittings. So, I opted for his novella The Mist, and I consumed it in less than three days. I’ve been watching American Horror Story and it’s reminded me just how much I love reading horror. And it was so heavy, that I could not pick up another novel, by King or anyone else, for months.īut that ended earlier this month when I decided I wanted to return to the realm of horror fiction. I knew it wasn’t, but my emotional reaction to it caught me entirely off guard. I even had dreams (not nightmares, dreams) about the characters that made me feel as though, somehow, the novel was real. I stopped reading fiction last year after I finished The Shining by Stephen King because it utterly wrecked me. Spoilers ahead for Stephen King’s novel Rose Madder.Įarlier this month, I broke my long fast from fiction and picked up a novella.
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