I like the way The End of the Whole Mess is written. I think it’s original and great and also very sad. This is also one of the strongest stories in the collection. Unfortunately, this cure causes early onset Alzheimer’s disease and other similar illness and wipes humans off the face of the earth. inherent meanness and violent tendencies) in the water of a small Texas town and infects the water of the world. THE END OF THE WHOLE MESS: A genius discovers what he believes to be a cure to human nature (i.e. King offers something very original and gripping. This is one of the best stories in this collection. Schoolteachers and high-priced hoodlums do not have the same freedom of movement it’s just an economic fact of life (DOLAN’S CADILLAC)ĭOLAN’S CADILLAC: A man avenges the murder of his wife at the hands of a rich thug by burying him and his bodyguard’s alive in the Nevada desert inside his Cadillac. And on a few occasions I watched him leave his place in Hollywood Hills in the same grey Cadillac to return to Las Vegas – not often, though. On two or three occasions I watched from a side road as his Sedan DeVille, the same colour as his hair, swept by on Route 17 toward Los Angeles. I watched him leave Las Vegas on his regular pilgrimages to the West Coast I watched him return. I watched his hair go from iron-grey to a fashionable silver while my own simply recede until I was bald.

I watched him stroll into fancy restaurants dressed in a tuxedo, always with a different woman on his arm, always with his pair of bodyguard’s bookending him. But Stephen King writing to beat the devil will do your dreaming for you. On a roller-coaster through the macabre and monstrous, via cutting-edge explorations of good and evil – and on to a heartfelt piece on Little League baseball. In story after story, the long reach of Stephen King’s imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his story-telling will take you places you’ve never been before. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is back with a powerful new collection of stories – a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns and grows on you. The Stephen King amusement park – an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell – and a few to glory.Ī solitary finger pokes out of a drain.

Crouch End, Umney’s Last Case, The End of the Whole Mess, The Fifth Quarter and You Know They Got a Hell of a Band were adapted for the TV mini-series ‘Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King’. Home Delivery and Rainy Season were adapted into short films. The Moving Finger was adapted into an episode of the TV show ‘Monsters’. Sorry, Right Number was adapted as part of an episode of ‘Tales from the Darkside’. Chattery Teeth was adapted as part of the film ‘Quicksilver Highway’.

ADAPTATIONS: The Night Flier and Dolan’s Cadillac were adapted into films of the same name.

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