After a really long career and a huge list of books (many of them masterpieces, really few the bad ones) he is still able to pull out from his hat a wonderful book written in a simply amazing way.
By now all the people who were criticizing him are quiet, impossible to still confine him inside a single genre : he is complete and he create masterpieces outside horror's fences too, touching sides like fantasy, science fiction and even adult novelty like in Stand By Me.
There are also people who accuse him to be verbose... well, I must admit that happens quite sometimes but it's a venial sin.
Like Duma Key's beginning... for the first 50 pages I have been in complete ecstasy for the prose and the unfold of Edgar Freemantle's story (for everyone of you who is a Kingophile this name summons something, right? ;)), and it seems also kinda of autobiographic : an horrible accident is near taking the main character's life, leaving him alive but without an arm and with a blind eye; King has been more dead than alive after a tremendous accident with his motorcycle, undergoing 7 surgeries and months of therapies.
The book is a sort of diary of Freemantle himself and talks about all the stuff that happened (fantastic/mysterious/tragic) after his move to the Keys for a rehab after the accident. And in Duma Keys he will receive a gift, but the prices will be truly high.
As always the characters are truly exceptionals, like the story that will reveal the paranormal side really far deep into the plot.
One of his masterpiece for me!
