11/25/2023 0 Comments Later by stephen king reviews![]() ![]() And that is only the beginning of Jamie’s problems. Born with the ability to see and communicate with the dead, he comes to the attention of a disgraced NYPD detective who uses his services to stop a dead terrorist from committing his final posthumous act. The story centres around Jamie Conklin, who uses this novel to reflect on a particular series of events that occurred during his youth. Combine this with the writing style of King, and you get Later, a novel which is equal parts supernatural horror and crime thriller. One of these is the hard-boiled fiction genre, which itself is a style of American crime fiction that is characterised as being ‘tough’ and ‘unsentimental.’ The publisher of Later, Hard Case Crime is ‘dedicated to reviving the vigor and excitement, the suspense and thrills-the sheer entertainment-of the golden age of paperback crime novels,’ particularly within this sub-genre. ![]() However, there are also many more aspects over the course of history that has affected how we consume novels today. The man’s influence of the landscape of writing, especially in the modern context, cannot go understated. ![]() Stephen King’s writing has not only made its permanent mark on contemporary literature, but popular culture as we know it, spawning legendary movie adaptations such as The Shining and The Mist. When it comes to talking about notable horror writers of the recent decades, there is one who stands above all others for his contributions (and the irony of his last name is not lost on many people). ![]()
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