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An interesting tie-in with last year's Joyland and the classic short story "Jerusalem's Lot" and novel 'Salem's Lot, - and even, I'm willing to argue, Under the Dome - this is King's take on the Lovecraftian mad scientist tale. The thirteenth chapter is where it all comes together spectacularly, but the novel overall could really have benefited from brutal editing down to short story or novella length. There's a lot of back story that feels almost autobiographical, stretching back to the narrator's childhood in the '60s. While there are several lovely, powerful, and ominous moments throughout, the throughline of tension that pays off in chapter 13 slackens more often than not, making me wonder if it had been intended to be a Bachman book at some point. A reorganization of the book with that key episode as a frame and judiciously placed flashbacks to the best moments would have made for a more sustainably suspenseful thriller.