Even a zombie lurching through the night” is a “cheerful” thought in the context of a “dissolving ozone layer.” As a surrogate author in The Mist explains King’s mission, “when the technologies fail, when… religious systems fail, people have got to have something. From the beginning, his dark parables spoke to the anxieties of the late twentieth century. September 21, 1947) may be known as a horror writer, but he calls himself a “brand name,” describing his style as “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and a large fries from McDonald’s.” His fast-food version of the “plain style” may smell of commercialism, but that may make him the contemporary American storyteller without peer.
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