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The Dead Zone by Stephen King6/29/2023 King could not have known in 1979 how eerily prescient his novel would feel in 2019, but here we are. It's been four decades since The Dead Zone, King's fifth novel (not counting the ones he released as Richard Bachman), was published, and revisiting it now reveals that it has only grown more frightening with time. Ambiguity can be a powerful element of horror fiction - is the house really haunted or are you just going crazy? - but mere pages into The Dead Zone, King wants to make it clear that a bad man with big ambitions is stalking the landscape. When he's sure no one is home, he gleefully kicks the dog to death. The very first time we meet Greg Stillson - the rising political star who becomes the villain of King's 1979 novel - he's selling Bibles door to door when he comes across a very loud dog. Stephen King makes sure you know that right away. There are not very fine people on both sides in The Dead Zone.
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