Though he’s known for writing doorstops, his most frightening and often flat-out best work has come when he’s working short.
rising action. The story’s hands are dirty from its very beginning—King’s out here offing, for God’s sake—before it finally arrives at a twist ending that’s made all the more terrifying by the fact that you kind of see it coming, albeit through the cracks between your fingers.
A different writer might have been inclined to make Lester Billings a sympathetic character—this poor guy has lost three kids to a monster who lives in his closet, after all. But King’s Billings is a complete piece of shit, a guy who casually drops racial epithets, brags about beating his wife and children, and doesn’t even really seem all that sad that his kids are dead. It’s clear that what’s brought him to this office is more cowardly, self-pitying guilt than anything like real grief.This crucial choice—to make the story’s victim into a villain himself—is a stroke of genius on a few levels.
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