![]() ![]() ![]() As with his evil clowns down drains, or possessed automobiles, a ludicrous premise is turned into an insinuatingly believable story thanks to King’s true superpower: suspending our disbelief by dint of a 360-degree field of brilliant HD detail.Įvidently in the mood to reach out to his fanbase, King prefaces each story here with ruminations on writing. What they got was a startling jack-in-the-box of a tale in which a literature teacher’s freshly delivered reading device provides a portal into a multiverse of written works, including new masterpieces from Hemingway and Poe. ![]() One wonders what Amazon were hoping for in the way of product placement when they approached King (pictured) to write an e-format story to promote the second version of the Kindle. The 57 spellbinding pages of “Ur” are the highlight of a less-than-vintage collection. Sure enough, in this new book of shorter fiction, the novella again proves his sweet spot. A classic King novella takes time to tease out the implications of its alarming central idea, but the ending still comes swiftly enough to make the final page resound like a slammed door. Yet from heart-stopping skirmishes with maniacs in Big Driver and The Gingerbread Girl to the monster apocalypses of The Mist and The Langoliers, Stephen King has shown a remarkable knack for making the novella seem like the Platonic ideal of fiction. ![]() O ften too long to sell to magazines and too short to sit alone on the bookshop shelf, the novella has long been sidelined as an awkwardly impractical form of fiction. ![]()
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