The fans of Stephen King They do not have – or should not have – serious withdrawal-type problems. The king of terror periodically supplies them with literary material. And he never lets them down. One year after the novel Holly, the writer has just published through Penguin Random House If you like the dark (You like it Darker is its original title in English), a book that includes twelve stories, some of them brand new and others already published previously. “Rattlesnakes”, for example, is a sequel to his already classic novel Cujo: A widower travels to Florida looking for rest and, of course, things happen there.
Destiny, mortality, luck and unexpected changes in reality once again populate King’s imagination and that of millions of viewers around the world. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a psychic explosion bursts into people’s lives; In “The Dreamers”, a Vietnam War veteran encounters certain corners of the universe that it would have been preferable not to explore. Is the gift of clairvoyance a blessing or a curse? The story “Answer Man” proposes new and somber views on the matter.
Fear, yes, but also concern, restlessness and a deep question mark about the present of the world permeate these stories with which King calms – and at the same time renews -, until further notice, the anxiety of his readers.
