If you can’t wait to read it, then get ready to do a bit of detective work as the story has been broken into more than 5,000 snippets (scattered across hundreds of websites and locations throughout the UK) as a way to celebrate the breadth of this masterpiece and to give fans a one-off opportunity to piece the book back together before its release. King’s latest book, due to published on November 10th by Hodder & Stoughton, is Under The Dome an epic story that explores what happens to a Maine town when an invisible barrier suddenly seals it off from the rest of the world, in a perfect example of a King thriller.
It’s also why, aside from creating fantastical worlds and immense horror, King can write such understated tales at The Body (upon which the film Stand By Me was based) and Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption (and if you can’t guess which film was based on that story, then you’re clearly not paying attention). It’s the spark of the normal being confronted by the unknown is what has always given King’s work its unique power. Whilst he’s always had an acute sense of the grotesque, people often forget that King’s genius lay in his ability to take ordinary people and thrust them into extraordinary situations. Ever since Carrie, his first novel, was unleashed onto unsuspecting audiences King has been scaring people the world over with terrifying tales and scary stories. Under The Dome by Stephen King (published by Hodder & Stoughton)Įven though he’s often – unfairly – dismissed by some as the “…literary equivalent of a big mac and fries …” Stephen King is one of the most popular and talented of modern authors.
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